of a social movement is to bring cameras, then spectacle is i mean like again i m trying to take a moral evaluation on it and just from a pure perspective, we do send more cameras when things burn. that s the social context in which policing is set. and the social context in which television and media are driven largely. where were the cameras when 5,000 whackblack, asian latino students marched down the middle of the city in complete peace saying police brutality have to stop. where were the cameras? that s not what people want to see. if you turn the channel and something is on fire you stop to see what it is. we have more folks joining the panel. baltimore s state attorney has a special message for the young protesters who marc steiner was
comprehensive, thorough and independent investigation, coupled with the medical examiner s determination that mr. gray s death was a homicide which we received today, has led us to believe that we have probably cause to file criminal charges. that was baltimore s top prosecutor marilyn mosby announcing the charges ranging from false imprisonment and misconduct in office to manslaughter. and for one officer second degree depraved heart murderer. that says that he acted with extreme disregard for human life. mosby says officers arrested gray repeatedly flouted department policy by refusing to buckle him into the police van and repeatedly failed to get him medical attention. at one point officers placed gray in the back of the police van face down and head first with his hands cuffed and his ankles shackled. gray s final cord was severely injured and his voice box was crushed. he died from his injuries a week later. after the charges were announced the officers union, the fra
bill de blasio and i don t think he fully understood how important his campaign was as it moved forward. but he did have this very coherent, important message about tackling inequality and rebuilding a city for all pre-k, universal, is his signature policy. he will need to move. the good thing about bill de blasio is he comes out of a politics of community organizations, of mobilizations in this city that were under the radar for daek aides in bloomberg s new york. so i think the one thing i would say, melissa, going forward, being careful about using the word populist, progressive, but i also say we should never say that tapping inequality is a right or left issue. it is about right and wrong. so i love sort of the language you have laid out here around bill de blasio and the kind of excitement in this moment. marc, i have to say one of the joys that i have about living not in new york, living in new orleans, is, you know, i m constantly pushing back on my producers that, hey, actua
sabotage or have an alternative? and thank you so much. we undoubtedly the fight is not over. we ll get to talk more about aca going forward. jay, marc, robert. who i learned used to be a deejay. i think next time you come back you ll have to deejay for us. don t get me started. coming up, my letter of the week. that s correct. cause i m really nervous about getting trapped. why s that? uh, mark? go get help! i have my reasons. look, you don t have to feel trapped with our raise your rate cd. if our rate on this cd goes up, yours can too. oh that sounds nice. don t feel trapped with the ally raise your rate cd. ally bank. your money needs an ally.
the beginning of the de blasio rather in new york pushes the boundaries of that brand of populism to embrace an alternative. whether it is providing safety and security, access to a good education, an affordable place to live for a snow-free street, there is a place among those ordinary people for good government that works to make their lives better. marc steiner, host of the marc steiner show on weaa 89.9 fm and founder for the center of e emerging media. lorraine miller, interim ceo of the naacp, katrina, editor and publisher of the nation magazine and author of the change i believe in: fighting for progress in the age of obama. robert george, associate editorial page editor of the new york post. thanks to all of you. thank you. i sort of teased there about the new mayor pulling a cory booker in that these images of actually being out with the people in the neighborhood, you know, clearing snow, but how important or rather how well the sort of image aspects have to