to raise defense spending and take it all out of defense, out of domestic spending just like the rail and the amtrak that we ve had here today. there is a real link between what you re able to fund and how much safety you assure the public that it s getting. luke, at what point infrastructure was not a partisan issue. ronald reagan was the person who said rebuilding our infrastructure is an investment in tomorrow that we must make today. it would seem, though that the battle is as pitched as ever and decidedly on partisan lines today. what can you tell us about what happened on capitol hill? well, there are a few things. i think the points you make about this being a very much partisan issue now is true. it did not used to be this way. things like the highway trust fund bill were slam dunks. they were lay-ups. everybody essentially got what they wanted. and that was roughly the same truth for things like amtrak.
it a sure thing. the prosecutor sounded extremely confident dropping the bombshell. freddie gray s death, marilyn mosby declared was a homicide. now the work of trying to get convictions begins and mosby s cases against the six officers are by no means slam dunks. these charges are very tricky to get convictions on especially with this sets of facts. reporter: one of two former baltimore prosecutors we spoke to who says the second depraved heart murder trial will be especially difficult to prove. typically it s described in law schools across country, somebody who would throw a flower pot out of a 20th story window on a crowded street. a reasonable person should know that s going to cause risk to injure somebody or kill them. reporter: proving goodson knew beforehand he was creating a specific risk of death for freddie gray will be tough.
put in a submissive position. and another tasing incident from 2013. mario gibbons says slager pulled him out of his house and tased him even though witnesses said he wasn t the burglary suspect he was looking for. others may follow. chances are, there are other people out there who say oh, i remember that police officer. let me call a lawyer right now or let me go file a complaint right now because it happened to me, also. but these aren t slam dunks against slager. he was exonerated in the gibbons tasing case. keith says a judge probably wouldn t allow those lawsuits to be mentioned at slager s criminal trial. and in civil and criminal cases, he says, juries often give more weight to a police officer s testimony because of the authority they have and the stresses they face on the beat. brian todd, cnn, washington. chicago is proposing a multi
attorney or north charleston police and another taseing situation. mario givens said he tased him though a witness said he wasn t the burglary suspect he was looking for. chances are there are other people who say i remember that police officer. let me call a lawyer right now or let me go file a complaint right now because it happened to me also. reporter: but these are not slam dunks against slager. he was exonerated in the complaint filed in that givens case. keith wears says a judge probably won t allow those to be mentioned in his criminal trial because they would be prejudicial and in criminal and civil cases juries often give more weight to a police officer s testimony given the authority they have and the stresses they face on the beat. wolf. what other details, brian have you learned about michael slager the ex-police officer there in north charleston, putting off investigators, i take it on the day of the sheing? we re told by an official of
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