Died in Police Custody. He was arrested for running. 80 of his spine was dozens of severed. Dozens of people have been arrested, 15 Police Officers were injured and several businesses have burned down. We will go to baltimore for the latest and speak to the reverend Jesse Jackson and former Baltimore CityCouncil PresidentLawrence Bell. Then to Nobel Peace Prize laureate shirin ebadi here in the hague. For years, shirin ebadi has been of irans most vocal critics. Today she explains why she supports the Iran Nuclear Deal despite being opposed to nuclear power. I do not agree with any of the Nuclear Energy programs. Therefore, [indiscernible] but at the same time, a country that does have an atomic bomb cannot judge in this manner about other countries. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Were on the road at the hague in the netherlands. But first, to maryland. Where the governor larry hogan has deployed the National Guard in baltimore amid an uprising over the death of freddie gray. Gray died a week after a Police Encounter which his family said left his spine 80 severed at the neck. Police stopped him because he made eye contact with a lieutenant, then ran away. Two weeks of peaceful protest over grays death erupted into violence monday as High School Students threw bricks and rocks at police, and looting and vandalism were reported across the city. Overnight, cars and buildings were burned. Police said 15 officers were injured, though all are expected to recover. At least 27 people were arrested. Governor hogan denounced the protesters as gangs of thugs roaming the streets. Everybody believes we need to get to the answers and resolve the situation, the concern everyone has about what happened in the freddie gray incident. That is one whole situation. This is an entirely different situation. This is lawless gangs of thugs roaming the streets, causing damage to property and injuring innocent people, and were not on a tolerate that. Amy following ferguson, this marks the second time in six months the National Guard has been called to restore order after protests over police violence. The protests came after freddie grays funeral was attended by thousands, including maryland, democratic congressmember elijah cummings, a delegation of White White House and the family of , eric garner the Staten Island man who died after a new York City Police officer put him in a banned chokehold. Billy murphy, an attorney for freddie grays family, addressed the mourners. Most of us are not here because we knew freddie gray. But were all here because we know lots of freddie grays. Amy we will speak to reverend Jesse Jackson after headlines. Not far from the upheaval in baltimore, Loretta Lynch was sworn in as the nations first africanamerican woman attorney general at a ceremony in washington, d. C. Is a little girl from North Carolina who used to tell her grandfather to f on the back of his mule so she could see way up high granddaddy, can grow up to become the chief Law Enforcement officer of the United States of america, we can do anything. Amy lynch released a statement on the situation in baltimore, vowing to bring the full resources of the department of justice to bear in protecting those under threat, investigating wrongdoing, and securing an end to violence. The Justice Department is investigating freddie grays death. The Prime Minister of nepal has warned the death toll from saturdays devastating 7. 8magnitude earthquake could reach 10,000. The toll now stands at over 4,300 and is continuing to climb, with 8,000 injured. While humanitarian aid has begun to reach the capital katmandu, residents of remote villages remain cut off by landslides, as they struggle to bury their dead. Entire villages have been flattened. Nepal has attempted to air drop supplies while residents complain of a dire need for food and water. Unicef spokesperson Christophe Boulierac said up to 1 million children are in need of aid. So far, we think that nearly one million children are affected by the earthquake and are in need of emergency assistance. Usually in the situation such as in haiti and 2010, there are lots of [indiscernible] required for children who are maimed, who lost part of one leg or an arm. Typical that we find during situations of earthquake that needs urgent amy in nigeria, hundreds of bodies have been found in the northeastern town of damasak after an apparent massacre by the militant group boko haram. Local sources told Agence France press the death toll exceeds 400, with bodies found in homes, streets, and the driedup damasak river. Troops from chad and niger retook the town from boko haram last month, discovering an earlier mass grave containing about 100 bodies. In libya, five journalists with a libyan tv station have been found dead with their throats slit eight months after they went missing. An Army Commander told reuters the journalists were killed by militants with the selfproclaimed Islamic State. A United Nations probe has confirmed Israeli Forces conducted direct attacks on United Nations facilities in gaza, killing at least 44 palestinians sheltering at the sites during last summers assault. The attacks took place despite repeated warnings to Israeli Forces, which included the gps coordinates of u. N. Sites. In one case, the Israeli Defense forces fired 88 mortar rounds at a u. N. Girls school where 3000 refugees were sleeping, killing up to 18 people including a u. N. , employee and two of his sons. Palestinians have vowed to bring it also found they hit weapons at three mtu in schools. Palestinians have vowed to bring the findings here to the International Criminal court at the hague where they became the newest member earlier this month. The Supreme Court is hearing arguments today in a historic case that could legalize samesex marriage across the United States. Samesex couples can now wed in 36 states and washington, d. C. But the case under consideration today could establish the constitutional right to marry for samesex couples in all 50 states. The plaintiff in the case, jim obergefell, married his longtime partner john arthur in maryland when arthur was dying of als. Their home state of ohio has refused to recognize their marriage on arthurs death certificate, a right obergefell said is worth fighting for. The state of ohio once nothing more than to take johns last official record as a person and to change it so that it is wrong. They want to erase the fact that john and i were legally married. They want to erase the official record of our marriage, of me as johns spouse. There is no way i would ever stop fighting for that. Amy in oklahoma, the undersheriff of tulsa county has resigned after a leaked report showed the intimidated staff to protect a reserve deputy and wealthy donor who killed an unarmed African American man earlier this month. The deputy, robert bates claimed he mistook his gun for a taser when he fatally shot eric harris. An internal report from 2009 reveals how bates was permitted to flout policies, patrolling in his own vehicle and conducting traffic stops without adequate training. It found undersheriff tim albin instructed staff to overlook bates violations, telling a sergeant to stop messing with [bates] because he does a lot of good for the county. Sheriffs officials initially claimed they couldnt find any record of the 2009 probe, but a lawyer for eric Harris Family obtained a leaked copy. A judge allowed robert bates to go on a monthlong vacation to the bahamas after he pleaded not guilty to seconddegree manslaughter. That was in the death of eric harris. In south carolina, two Police Officers in the town of marion have been sentenced to prison for unnecessarily shocking a disabled woman with a taser at least eight times in 2013. Franklin brown, who shocked the victim, melissa davis, while she was handcuffed and not resisting, received an 18month term, while fellow officer eric walters was sentenced to a year. Brown admitted telling fellow officers he shocked davis because he did not want to touch that nasty [expletive]. A new report by the International Business times has revealed Goldman Sachs paid former president bill clinton 200,000 to deliver a speech just months before the banking giant began lobbying the state department, then headed by hillary clinton. The report is the latest to raise questions about the clintons financial ties. On sunday, the Clinton Foundation acknowledged mistakes in how it reported donations from foreign governments, saying it mistakenly combined the sums with other donations, and would refile tax returns. And a federal judge has rejected a bid by the Food Industry to strike down a vermont law which would make the state the first in the country to require labeling of genetically modified foods. The judge rejected a request by Industry Groups to block the law, but let their lawsuit move forward, paving the way for a trial over the law. Meanwhile, the fastfood chain chipotle says it has become the First National restaurant chain to eliminate gmo foods. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are on the road in the hauge. But we begin todays show in baltimore, maryland where , National Guard troops have been deployed following violent protests over the death of freddie gray, the 25yearold africanamerican man who died of neck injury suffered in Police Custody after he was arrested for running. His family has said his spine was 80 severed at the neck. Police say they arrested at least people and acknowledged 27 15 Police Officers were injured. Overnight, cars and stores were set on fire, including a cvs and a portion of a historic italian deli that has an in the city since 1908. Following ferguson, this marks the second time in six months the National Guard has been called to restore order after Police Brutality protests. This time, protests erupted in the west Baltimore Neighborhood where gray was first arrested for making eye contact with a lieutenant and then running away. On monday night, Governor Hogan declared a state of emergency. Today baltimores Public Schools , are closed and a curfew is in place from 10 00 p. M. To 5 00 a. M. Mayor stephanie rawlingsblake addressed the city monday night. What we see tonight is very disturbing. It is very clear there is a difference between what we saw over the past week with the peaceful protests. Those who wish to seek justice those who wish to be heard and want answers, and the difference between those protests and the thugs, who only want to incite violence and destroy our city. Amy earlier on monday thousands gathered to pay their respects during freddie grays funeral, including elijah cummings, the delegation from the white house, the family of eric garner, the Staten Island man who died after new York City Police officer put him in a band chokehold. This is gray family attorney billy murphy. Most of us are not here because we knew freddie gray but we are all here because we know lots of freddie grays. Lets dont get ourselves. We would not be here today if it werent for a video camera. Instead of one coverup, behind the blue wall, after another coverup behind that blue wall and one lie after another lie [applause] now we see the truth is never before. It is not a pretty picture. Amy Baltimore Police say they expect to present a report on grays death to the States Attorneys Office by friday. But officials have not said when the report will be made public. Six officers involved in his arrest have been suspended with pay. Well, for more, we are joined in baltimore by two guests. Reverend Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader, and president and founder of the rainbow push coalition. He spoke at freddie grays funeral on monday. And Lawrence Bell rejoins us former Baltimore City council , president and represented west baltimore, which is the area where freddie gray was arrested. Welcome both of you back to democracy now reverend jackson, your reaction to what took place last night as well as your message in the funeral of freddie gray. What happened last that was very disturbing. It was an express of hopelessness and selfdestructive violence. It diverts attention away from the real issues. For example 111th killed by a policeman since 2011. Not the first one. Secondly, that same time unemployment is 30 . 18,000 vacant homes are abandon because banks ran subprime lending and federal lending on people. People got left out. The abounding poverty, most people who have been to prison and come out and cant vote and can get a job because they been a prison. You have this oasis of poverty and pain, and you must decide last night to address the structural crisis in baltimore and urban america period. Amy Lawrence Bell, the area that you represented when you were in the city council is the area where freddie gray was arrested. Arrested again, according to the lieutenant, she made eye contact with him and he ran away and that was grounds for arresting him. Can you talk about this community that you have represented for so long . In fact, i was actually born a few blocks away from where the incident occurred. It really touches me personally. I think there has been years of neglect, not only in west baltimore, but all over the inner city of baltimore. And i think the chickens are coming home to roost. This is a tell of two cities. This has been going on for a long time. Donnelly be police abuse, which escalated in the early 2000 under the zerotolerance policy of Martin Omalley but the economic balance that has been committed against the people. You have a lot of young people, many of whom have already been arrested because of mass arrests that have gone on in Baltimore City. They see no hope and no way out. They are acting out. Unfortunately. We have to wake up and do something. Amy, we were in church yesterday. We noticed the gangs were coming together and they were going to shoot a police. Immediately, there was a panicking move to do a lockdown on the city. That was several schools in the Public Transportation stopped did not have a way home. You had thousands of kids on the streets with no way to get home because the city with a lockdown worried a policeman get shot, as per station chris rotation stop, businesses closed. In that environment, the whole thing exploded. Amy i want to go to Maryland Governor larry hagan hogan. This is just after he announced a state of emergency and activated the National Guard to respond to unrest in baltimore. Everybody believes we need to get to the answers and resolve the situation, the concern everyone has about what happened in the freddie gray incident. That is one whole situation. This is an entirely different situation. This is lawless gangs of thugs roaming the streets for causing damage to property and injuring innocent people, and were not going to tolerate that. Amy lawless gangs of thugs. Reverend jackson, your response . Such language does not aid the situation. For example, those people, those bankers who engaged in subprime lending and took those homes and drove them out of middleclass what is their name . 111 killings in three years in one area. What do you call those who did the killing when there was no camera . When you look at 30 unemployment, money spent downtown for the New Baltimore and pension money and banking money. So you have, as brother bill says, you have downtown also mean brimming ultimo and then you have the rest of them. We need not engage in namecalling on that matter, but we do know that strategy does not work. We need to look at amy the Commission Report from 50 years ago. Is is river radical racial divide and there must be some remedy, not just reaction. Amy reverend jackson, can you also respond to freddie grays arrest . This issue this is according to the police, that he made eye contact with a lieutenant a