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.
Reporter here they gist got another man pp. Were being easy guys. Were being pushed. If you can see whats going on when they try to arrest someone, theyre being swarmed by these protesters. Okay okay maam. And some things are being thrown. Not sure why that mean is being arrested not sure what he allegedly did. But every time they try to arrest someone, you can see what happened happened. So the scuffle that happened, do we know what happened there . Reporter at that moment we were witnessing two people being arrested and that got the crowd angry, they confronted the police there were objects thrown and then police got between themselves and the other people and got those two people away. Thats about as violent as its gotten. This is a very interesting scene right here. Theyre doing an impromptue street dramatic play. Doo dem demonstrating what they believe the police are doing. Its street drama to vent their anger at the police show us and others what they believe the police are doing
Breaking news. The world is watching boston. Live pictures outside the federal courthouse in Downtown Boston as weve now learned in ten minutes from now, the verdict will be read in the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev case there. Hes the convicted terrorist. He and his brother setting up the horrible death and injury scene two aprils again on boylston street at the Boston Marathon claiming three lives and the fourth later on that, m. I. T. Police officer, sean collier. What youre looking at now is the anticipation here. Members of the media, public now allowed inside this courthouse. The defense team is inside of the courthouse. Dzhokhar tsarnaev himself will be inside this courthouse as the verdict will be read as far as whether or not hell be put to death. Keep in mind Capital Punishment is illegal in the state of massachusetts, but of course this is a federal case. The jury has been deliberating the last three days. In total, deliberations lasting 14 1 2 hours. Two notes have been sent from the j
After a terror attack on the marathon. One year of resilience and rededication. Heroes and survivors gathered at the finish line bringing their surprising stories of what has happened in this comeback year. That inspired a whole country. Abcs dan harris is there for us tonight as he was one year ago. Dan. Reporter good evening. All day long the message out of my hometown of boston has been clear, that the courage and compassion we saw in response to the attacks should vastly outweigh the intentions of the attackers themselves. Even the manyhued childrens choir that performed at todays tribute ceremony was an eloquent rebuttal to hatred as was the grace on display from survivors like patrick downes. He and his wife, jessica, each lost a leg. We would never wish any of this pain on any of you. However, we wish that all of you at some point in your lives feel as loved as we have felt over this last year. Reporter adrianne hasletdavis also lost a leg. No milestone is too small to celebrate
Rejuvenated Boston Marathon. We all know what happened here during this very event. The race cut short by terrorist bomb blasts. But this is not a day for talking about those suspected of the attacks. This is a day for the people here to show that they are boston strong, that they will not have their traditions ripped away from them. If last years marathon was like of no other, all afternoon weve watched some 36,000 runners demonstrate the peak of endurance and some returning to the course bearing the injuries inflicted upon them. Well bring you their surviving stories of recovery and defiance from right here in the middle of it all. First, we turn to two major stories in our world lead. Al qaeda under attack. A massive and unprecedented attack of strikes is under way in yemen. The latest strike was yesterday on a Training Camp operated by the terrorist group and in all, 65 militants have been killed in yemen since saturday, a combination of drone attacks. Now, not all of the bodies ha