Reporting tonight, lester holt. Good evening. We begin tonight with breaking news out of baltimore where hundreds are gathering in protest at this hour outside a police station. Outrage over the death of a man who suffered a spinal injury while in police custody. Six officers have been suspended, and there is late word the feds are now getting involved in the case. Nbcs tom costello starts us off tonight from baltimore. Reporter tonight, the Justice Department has announced its opening its own investigation into how 25yearold freddie gray suffered a fatal spinal cord injury in police custody. On the streets of baltimore demonstrators have been peaceful but determined to get answers. I have a son. And i would never want this to happen to my son. Reporter gray family attorney billy murphy wants to know why freddie gray was being chased in the first place. The man was arrested for literally running while black, or as we also jokingly on the inside say felony running. Reporter just over th
Today the punishment phase of the trial began, prosecutors representing people of the United States urged a jury to choose death as the punishment for the boston bomber. Four people were killed and 260 wounded almost exactly two years ago. Don dahler says prosecutors started today with a surprise. Reporter prosecutors came out swinging, telling jurors tsarnaev, seen making an obscene gesture at a camera in a Court Holding cell just three months after the bombings, was unconcerned, unrepentant and unchanged. He had one more message left to send. During her Opening Statements framed by photos of those killed during the attacks and in the aftermath, assistant attorney Nadine Pelligrini said he planned and plotted to kill, he deliberately selected a glorious sporting event and twisted the marathon into something cruel and ugly for his own purposes. The jury sat rapt as more victims took the stand. Celeste corcoran described being thrown into the air by the blast that destroyed both her leg
Reporter the police chief was interrupted by angry and vocal protesters demanding answers after seeing the video that shows officer Michael Slager repeatedly shooting Walt Walter Scott in the back. The man who shot the cell phone video wednesday Feidin Santana and he says he was on the way to work when he saw the struggle between slager and scott. And i saw them down on the floor before i started to recording. They were down on the floor, and the police had control of the situation. He had control of scott. And scott was trying to just get away from the taser, which the taser, you know, you can hear the sound of the taser. Reporter the video appears to show that they started to wrestle over the object possibly the taser, and it is an object that falls on the ground as scott turns to the run, and then slager fires eight shots, and four strikes him in the back. At no point is slager yelling a warning, he just fires. And then he calls for back up. Shots fired. Suspect down. He grabbed my
He too, faces possible Death Penalty. Good afternoon. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin today with breaking news. Our National Lead Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty on all counts. A federal jury ticking off guilty verdict after guilt verdict over and over and over 30 times. 17 of them Death Penalty counts. The jury says the defendant is responsible for the deaths of Krystle Campbell lingzi lu 8yearold Martin Richard and m. I. T. Police officer sean collier. On top of maiming so many other people people we now know. Jeff bowman for example. Altering countless lives when he planted that Pressure Cooker bomb by the finish line with his brother tamerlan. Mark Richards Family sean colliers family in the room as the guilty verdicts came down as was cnns alexandra field, also joined by deb feyerick. The trial now moves into the penalty phase. We dont know when that part of the trial will start. Did the now convicted terrorist show any emotion at all as he found out he could face the Death
Involvement might be as well. Good morning, welcome to early start. Im john berman. It is wednesday, april 22nd. It is 5 00 a. M. In the east. Christine romans is off today. Happening today, a new protest is plans in baltimore at the Police Station where officers brought 25yearold freddie gray after arresting him ten days ago. Somehow, gray suffered a severe spinal cord injury. One wreak later, on sunday he died. Baltimore police have now released the names of the six officers involved in arresting and transportinging gray. All six of these officers are suspended with pay. New witnesses are now coming forward, describing that arrest as baltimores mayor has vowed to find out what happened leading up to the fatal injury. I heard the young man screaming, get off of my neck. Get off of my neck. Youre hurting my neck. And then two cars pulled up shortly after that. One car door slammed. And then another. And they must have went to him and he started hollering and screaming a little louder.