this comes as for the first time now, one of the police officers involved in this case is speaking out through a friend. starting to tell their side of the story behind the arrest the injuries and the death ultimately of freddie gray. expressing frustration here over the way they believe local leaders in baltimore including their own police chiefs, police chief s chief, sorry, has handled this case. listen here from anderson cooper. he feels that the city has let all the officers down. that they have left them out there to fight for this and yet the mayor and the commissioner not just the mayor, the commissioner should have stood by them and they should have gotten due process by the law, and that s not what happened here. joining us now, mark fuhrman, former lapd homicide detective and a fox news contributor, and
squeezed they have no choice but to shut down or move. if you denton t have businesses you won t have jobs. it s a cycle. it gets down to the root cause that no one in government talks about enough and that is the family structure. we know this from nobody knows how to fix that. government can t fix it. government has to be a little more humble to know we need the faith-based community to come in and help these families. but you know we ve been watching this happe ferguson baltimore and beyond. when it popped up in ferguson the answer was it is a white police force with a white power structure in a black city, and that is volatile. that s explosive. and that needs to change in order for things to improve. here we see the lie put to that narrative. because in baltimore, it is a minority/majority police force.mayor, black police commissioner. yet we see the same thing happen. we re not getting to the root causes. all of their defenses are knocked down. actually kevin williams
a senior law enforcement source telling fox news that prior to monday night s violence the baltimore mayor, stephanie rawlings-blake gave an order to the police telling them to stand down. as riots and kay yooschaos erupted on the city streets, we saw people s homes burned. on tuesday plifrolice officers told reporters the reason they didn t take action at the protests was, well because teens were involved. some of your own officers say there were warnings they provided to their higher-ups they needed more help after the violence saturday night. why wasn t more help here before yesterday s riots? i think that it s important to add a degree of context. when we deployed our officers yesterday, we were deploying for a high school event. i don t think that there s anyone in the country that would expect us to deploy automatic weapons and armored vehicles to an event with 13 14 and 15-year-olds. joining me now, dana perino co-host of the five on fnc and
and not to mention the police officers who have been injured as a result of the rocks and other bottles and so on that have been thrown at them. stephanie, thank you for telling us your story. you re welcome. thank you. last night when it was time for the curfew to fall there were tense moments when a number of people refused to get a upoff the streets. with less than an hour to go until it resumes again all eyes are on hot spots where things have been getting tense the last few nights. rick levinthal live on the ground in baltimore again. rick? reporter: megyn, we re at the mall this mall would have been opened a few minutes ago but it s been closed since monday. this is where started monday afternoon. high school kids from a school across the street came here started looting stores, trashing the place. broke glass. burned police cars in the parking lot. got into clashes with police and moved into other neighborhoods in west baltimore. now we have national guard troops stationed
that there may be some gang involvement and gang understonetones. whether or not this is a turf war or not, there s unclear between different gangs, but it does have something, perhaps, to do with the sale of drugs that they want this corner to be clear for that. as you can see now, we have at least one person walking around with a megaphone. congressman walking around with a microphone. megaphone. telling people to go home. go home. time to go home. yeah man. elijah cummings hugging a young man as he tells folks there over megaphones to go home. not that young. not that young. an older man. in any event, what a scene in baltimore tonight as we see the third night there of unrest. we ll continue to watch it as we go back to our breaking news with mark fuhrman. i ve taken a closer the washington post report they are describing freddie gray as irate