the balance between rule of law and also getting answers that are so key in this case of freddie gray. and chris christie actually sent law enforcement help here to help in the city of baltimore, too. an issue all the candidates should address and will address in the coming months. brianna keilar, thanks so much. coming up for us who was freddie gray? a difficult life raised by a heroin-addicted mother who couldn t read and trouble in school possibly connected to lead point poisoning. i went to his old neighborhood to talk to those who knew him best. plus police saying they are preparing for large crowds tonight, protests demonstrations. but will be there tension, violence between protesters and police? jeff. hey, scott! this is no time for lollygaggin , lad. the chickweed and the dandelions are reekin mad havoc! now s the time to send in the scotts turf builder weed and feed, man! it kills weeds while it feeds
who s organized peaceful protests for freddie gray since the beginning of all this. thank you for being with us. the governor said earlier he believes a corner has been turned. there s still obviously a lot of work to be done. do you believe a corner has been turned? i do believe that. there s a glimmer of expectation believing it s going to turn around. all over the city today people were cleaning up and believing the best in baltimore is getting ready to happen. one of the things you have been doing today is you ve been out in schools talking about to people. we ve been talking about it a lot on the broadcast. how concerned are you that there s this expectation among people that friday they re going to get an answer about what happened to freddie gray? not necessarily of people but of teenagers specifically. we ve been in high schools and they resoundingly have been saying pastor, what are we going to do friday? about what? they really had to have the understanding, a verdict i
i want to go back over to john berman at camden yards. john? thanks so much, anderson. it s now been ten days since the death of freddie gray the man who suffered what is literally an inexplicable brutal injury while in the custody of baltimore police. since then gray s name and image have been used as a symbol for the notion of the movement against police brutality. but he was a 24-year-old man, a son, a father. before america heard his name chanted in the streets before his own characterize echoed across news reels and spurred riots across his city freddie gray was struggling to make a life for himself here and building a long rap sheet along the way.
and the police just trying to keep things peaceful protests. that s what we re seeing right now, certainly outside city hall. i want to go back to john berman at camden yards. i heard ben jealous say last night he called on the clergy and community leaders to go out and be giants. the orioles just won, 8-2, they beat the white sox and no one was in the stadium behind me to see it because of the security concerns a long way to go to get things back here. athena jones is in the sandtown winchester neighborhood of baltimore, one of the toughest and poorest neighborhoods in this city also one of the places that freddie gray lived. athena while you were on with me early today on @this hour, you spoke with the maryland governor larry hogan. what did he have to say to you this morning? reporter: that s right. i m next to a memorial to freddie gray. i asked governor hogan how he
there s also a longer-term issue that s existed in baltimore. do you see a renewed interest a renewed commitment to forging ahead to making progress on those issues? i think a renewed commitment by the people, not by the establishment. the band-aid has been ripped off. and you need more than iodine. we need open heart surgery. the reality, anderson that nobody is dealing with is that freddie gray was apprehended, 8:48 in the morning. and he was not headed to work. when you will consider that 64% of those who live in that zip code are on some level of public assistance it s a great economic disparity. it s not just criminal justice. but when it is these people have to hear that the officers are on paid vacation and they don t have money to feed their children it raises the ire of why it is that they re upset. i was just talking to toya graham who now famously grabbed