he wound up hospitalized and died a week later. on the day of his funeral, the city of baltimore exploded. police were attacked homes were burned businesses looted. pharmacies and liquor stores specifically targeted. in the middle of all this the city decides to hit the six cops who handled freddie gray with a list of charges ranging from assault to second degree murder. to the people of baltimore and the demonstrators across america, i heard your call for no justice, no peace. your peace is sincerely needed as i work to deliver justice on behalf of this young man. in recent days, we ve had a closer look at what s behind those charges. the evidence the autopsy and a key witness who has changed his story. we begin tonight with trace gallagher, live in our west coast newsroom. trace? megyn prior to the freddie gray case baltimore police agreed to help mosby crackdown on the drug infested areas. on april 212 lt when they made eye contact with freddie gray, gray took off ru
gray. officer cesar goodson faces the highest charges of second degree murder. what s the chances they are convicted? here to break it down. all six were charge. you say that marilyn mowsby had to do this why. she had to charge everyone who was possibly involved in freddie gray s death. from the beginning, we knew there was an illegal arrest and two officers three officers put him in the back of the van and we don t know exactly what happened from that point on. so she had to charge everyone in order to get to a conviction. in other words, it was a method to get them talking and possibly telling on each other? yes. absolutely. we don t know exactly their involvement and she may not know either but in order to get some people to turn on others in order to get people to start talking about exactly what happened you have to have something over their heads. if they are not facing charges, then why would they tell on
is there a double standard at play? it was one of biggest nights in the world of sports. floyd mayweather. from the kentucky derby and the boxing what were you watching? fox & friends begins right now. good morning everyone. look who is here. you must be a conflicted sports fan. what did you watch yesterday? i went to the rangers game yesterday. i get back in trouble back in d.c. when i say i root for the rangers, it was hard to be a caps fan when there are nine fans there. when you are in d.c. 40 50 100 rangers fans there. if you are a caps fan, you get beaten up. welcome to new york. we have much more on the big day in sports a little bit later on the show. first, we want to get to this fox news alert. you see what happened here yesterday in queens city in new york. this police officer, 25-year-old brian moore shot in the head while sitting in his car with his partner, when he noticed an individual carrying something suspicious in his belt buckle and ask
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he s charged with man slaughter. that s considered a lesser included charge. man slaughter by vehicle. he was the driver of the vehicle, and misconduct in office. ceasar goodson s grandfather was a police officer. a neighborhood told t the baltimore sun , goodson spends a lot of time with his family and kids. he s helped me with my car a few times. i could never say anything negative about him. a police officer who did not want to be named told the baltimore sun he s not confrontational. he s not known as being a heavy handed guy. one of the officers facing the least amount of charges is 25-year-old william porter. he grew up on the other side of town as freddie gray. he still lives with his parents. near loyola university in maryland. porter met the police van and helped cesar goodson check on freddie gray. that s all he did.