to take this opportunity to say to jay-z and to beyonce i m wide open. my heart is if i had with nothing but hope and the promise that we can sit and have a one-on-one and let s understand each other. when i spoke to iconic singer songwriter and activist harry bellefonte in 2013, he invited them to take up the social mantel of activism. over the weekend, there were reports they might be doing that. on saturday jay-z had this to say at a concert here in new york. you know time for equal pay right? you know when i work, right? you know i ain t shucking and jiving and high-fiving. you know this ain t back in the days, right? well, i can t tell how the the way to kill freddie gray how they did trey, right. on sunday is, writer jane hampton who authored his memoir launch aid sirz of tweets that
the flipside of what al sharpton is saying is the opposite. others saying that marilyn mosby had a rush to judgment. and we heard yesterday on our show our guest said he s going to be exonerated. something clearly went wrong here for freddie gray to die tragically but whether or not these officers are going to be sentenced and going forward with the prosecution, remember this prosecutor in maryland months ago said that ferguson wasn t moving quick enough on a prosecution and in the end officer darren wilson was exonerated. we no, i don t all the circumstances, all the evidence that will come forward mere in here in maryland. many say this was rooted in race, when we looked at the mug shots, half of them were white and half of them were black.
gear and start thinking about these things. and the whole leadership issue is lacking. i m very glad anterior there are a lot of people who are running because the people will get an opportunity to really hear of a variety of solutions and make a wise choice. you talk about a divided america under president obama. how do you alter leadership and when there s a tragic situation like the freddie gray death that is dividing america further? how do you unite people and help these communities like baltimore to thrive? well i think you have to be even handed. we need to be just as outraged when a police officer is killed as we are when a citizen is killed. police officers are very important. what if they weren t there? people would come in your house. they say i want this t.v. better still, you get out, i m taking your house. it would be total chaos. they are the only thing between us and total chaos. we need to be able to look at
they will find out if they have the evidence later on. when you have prosecutors that don t fear the police union and don t fear there is going to be some backlash they go by the evidence. when you have prosecutors that are playing politics they put the evidence aside, take four or five months to study and come back with nothing. on the other hand you have critics say can she make an impartial decision on this? she acting more like an activist partially because of her connections, one of her mentors is the freddie gray family attorney who donated the maximum amount to her campaign under the law.
their comrades at all, that way when you have officers charged in looking at 63 years in prison 50 years in prison that will influence anyone to break down the blue wall of silence. some have said they think the charges were too stiff that she was over charging and one of reasons could be a plea or some type of bargain later. let s cut through the legal jargon. the second one the first one is second degree deappraised heart murder. that charge is on the driver. he drove the van and tried to kill freddie gray bumpy ride. that would not be intentional murder. the recklessness comes into the invor voluntary manslaughter. they didn t call the medics they didn t give him the