that s golo.com. new today, thousands flooded the streets of niger backing the military coup that overthrew the democratically elected president. several demonstrators waved russian flags as they stormed the capital city and set fire to the french embassy. nbc s courtney kube s at the u.s. military outpost there. courtney, how did the russian flag become a symbol of the revolution? i will say we saw a number of those russian flags firsthand on the streets of neyami today. it s important to point out many of these protesters, there were thousands of, them that took the streets today, many of them were peaceful. we saw them going along in vehicles, running, waving russian flags, as you mentioned. a handful of them moved on to the french embassy and attacked
including second depraved heart murder is the driver of the police van who could face 63 years in prison if he s convicted. let me state in no uncertain terms that lieutenant rice and all of the officers involved at all times acted reasonably. we believe these officers will be vindicated. a busy morning of developments and reaction to get to regarding baltimore and bridgegate. we begin in baltimore where rallies overnight were mostly peaceful and in celebration of yesterday s charges. 53 people were arrested for violating the 10:00 p.m. curfew. nbc s ron allen is there. more protests more rallies and celebrations and more back and forth between the police and protesters here as the city
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one of those officers could have said they secured this guy, we need to make sure he doesn t get seriously injured and no one did. knowing it could lead to death, not that you re intending it to and you don t take the precaution. now i said in. i want to get to the national reaction on this. this will air tomorrow on nbc on meet the press, chuck todd interviewed john boehner and the subject of baltimore came up. let s listen to what he had to say about that. do you believe we re in a national crisis when it comes to the relationship between african-americans and law enforcement? i do. i think that if you look at what s happened over the course of the last year you just got to scratch your head. and when you hear about these charges have been brought charging homicide. public servants should not violate the law. if these charges are true, it s outrageous and unacceptable. any surprise here s the
interest. the family mr. gray s family attorney donated to my campaign and supported me. i had over 700 people who i don t see how there s a conflict of interest with reference to that. we nbc s ron allen. ron, a different tone a dramatically different tone it sounds like on the streets last night. and yesterday, in response to this, tell us about what s going on in baltimore right now. reporter: it was a very for that matter. everybod indictments came down so quickly andasting for weeks if not months. this happened much more quickly. it s still a long road ahead. people are saying this is a big first step but this is far from a conviction. it s going to take a long time. there s likely to be a trial and a complicated legal process. obviously, the police officers are going to push back hard against these charges. the prosecutor here seems very determined. she is very determined clearly.