collective expression of joy and relief after prosecutor marilyn mosby dropped what can certainly be described as a bombshell. r. we have probable cause to file criminal charges. yes! yes! reporter: a stunning announcement today by baltimore state s attorney marilyn mosby, caesar goodson, the officer driving the police van with freddie gray inside was charged with second-degree murder. mr. gray suffered a severe and critical neck injury as a result of being handcuffed shackled by his feet and unrestrained inside of the bpd wagon. reporter: the other five police officers involved also facing criminal charges. ranging from false imprisonment and assault to misconduct and manslaughter. despite mr. gray s seriously deteriorating medical condition, no medical assistance was rendered or summoned for mr. gray at that time by any officer. reporter: the state s attorney said gray s arrest began on the morning of april 12th, when gray ran from three
right now tonight after a week of anger the protests over freddie gray s death have an air of celebration out there, because the truly xroid naerp a extraordinary announcement rookie prosecutor marilyn mosby said gray s death was a honlds and the fatal injury occurred inside that police van. she revealed all six police officers involved in his arrest now face charges. one of them accused of second-degree murder. those officers are now in custody. all six of them. the police union calls it a rush to judgment and a huge legal battle lies ahead. let s go to our brian todd on the streets of baltimore with much more. brian, what s going on? reporter: wolf for more than six hours into a spontaneous street celebration here at the corner of north after flue and pennsylvania avenue. this has been of course the epicenter of the protest since freddie gray s death. right now people are over here chanting waving signs, celebrating with people stopping here in vehicles. and a real expression a
officers on bike patrol who made eye contact with him. gray was found carrying a knife, but mosely said there was no probable cause for his arrest and no crime had been committed. the knife was nos a switch played and a lawful. reporter: the prosecutor says police ignored repeated requests by freddie gray for medical help. by the time officer zachary novak, sergeant white and an unknown officer attempted to remove mr. grape from the wagon, mr. grape was no longer breathing at all. reporter: the baltimore police officers union says the officers charged aren t responsible for gray s death. i have never seen such a hurried rush to file criminal charges, which i believe are driven by forces which are separate and apart from the application of law, and the facts of this case as we know them. no one condones police misconduct. these officers did nothing wrong. as all of the facts surrounding this case come out in the appropriate forum, the officers lack of wrongdoing will be made
we and it was a good shock. you know what i mean? we went darn. we didn t use those words. that justice had been approached in this forthright and courageous manner by this prosecutor. were you all together? were you separate? played out on television? how did you find out? we found out after it was announced and the family got together and watched the recording on msnbc of the full press conference that she gave. thank you. thank you. thank you very much. got to go. billy murphy jr. is the attorney representing the freddie gray family. earlier we heard from the stepfather of freddie gray, richard shipley. they re making strong statements. they re talking about the breaking news this hour. the gray gray s stepfather calling for peace from demonstrateors on the streets and outside the city of baltimore
city and i live not too far from where this young man died. and i see so many children who feel like they have no hope. just last night, a 16-year-old boy said to me mr. cummings i want to hope, but i feel like i m living in a coffin, clawing trying to get out. and i tell you, when i think about our young people, i want them to have hope. i want them to believe that they have a destiny, and, wolf i said at the funeral of mr. president gray, i said for so long i ve said, our children are the living messages we send to a future we will never see. then i said, that s changed. now our children are sending us to a future they will never see. there s something absolutely wrong with that picture, and to all let me say this the only thing that i hope for was that, that the police and