with today at the funeral for mr. gray for freddy gray. i recall speaking to one man that s 66 years old and described how he noticed policing in the city change somewhere along the turn of the century, around 2000 or so. he adopted a no tolerance policy in policing and it manifested itself at least in this man s eyes with a very aggressive policing policy especially directed at african american men. this guy described to me how he was taking medication some sort of pain medication and he was prescribed four pill as day and rather than take a whole prescription bottle to work, he would fold four pill sboos a tissue and put them in his pocket and go to work. he was stopped randomly by police frisked and saw the pills and through him into the jail and at that point, he spent
son, he had to teach them how to be around police. they started a firestorm. is that fair criticism? i think that s unfair criticism t. mayor was elected to form policing policy in new york city. the famous ad with his son dante. which many credit his winning the primary, winning the election, it was about police community relations. i think the mayor has been very measured in his dialogue. we need everyone involved in this situation to have that same measure of level. dr. alexander, this was one of the concerns, when the protests started the rhetoric was so hot, there would be retribution against police officers and wrongly so, now we see this, a big caveat, it was perpetrated by someone who was not in their right mind, obviously, feared by their own families, apparently untreated for whatever was given creating their madness. how do you see this act? . first of all, let me offer my condolences to the family of the
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inspector general. does he support you on that? i haven t had that conversation with him. but it s a reform that we need to have in this city. but the point being, in a democracy, we electric the commander in chief. we electric the commander in chief and that s how it has to be. and i think we have to really evolve a bit here so that policing policy is more thoroughly a part of the public debate and the final decisions reside that much more clearly in city hall. [ male announcer ] may your lights always be green. [ tires screech ] [ beeping ] may you never be stuck behind a stinky truck. [ beeping ] may things always go your way. but it s good to be prepared. just in case they don t.
breaking down on fat cats on wall streets. one problem for him is he endorsed hillary clinton in 2008. so he s got a lot of work to carve out how he s going to be an alternative. and he used baltimore as the launching pad, but he has a mixed legacy and has received a lot of criticism for the problems that city has. his critics says he taxed the city too much and as governor of the state of maryland. there were dozens of protesters here who were basically shouting at him, calling him a liar saying that some of his policing policies zero-tolerance policing policy for example, had led to too many arrests here in baltimore and some charge led to the death of freddie gray. he s obviously rejected that but political analysts are saying this whole situation with the riots has really complicated