And the juvenile have a history. They have six encounters in the past including the night this teen was arrested. The teen was apparently vandalizing a gas station here in Prince Georges County. Well, right off the bat we can tell you that video has been released. Surveillance video from the Police Station, two camera angles that show exactly what happened that night in november back in 2012. We can tell you that the juvenile is sitting handcuffed in a holding cell. He is yelling and screaming. Even the prosecutors agree that he is being loud, disruptive and obnoxious. Seconds later, 27yearold Police Officer jerry thomas who brought him over to that Police Station slaps the 15yearold boy. The teen then falls over and then you can see the officer punching the teen a number of times. Now, the officers attorney argues that with this history, twice before this same juvenile spat on the officers face so thats why this time he slaps the boy. The attorney saying that the officer thought that
Agreement with the county. It says mgm must hire minority owned businesses for 30 of the total construction. They have to give the county Council Reports to show if theyre actually living up to that agreement. Just yesterday mgm told the counsel they were. Im happy to tell you that mgm exceeded the goals for local and business participation in two categories. Reporter but the minority Business Owners in this lawsuit continue to say its not true. They believe the contracts mgm gives to minor run businesses are much smaller than what was promised and other firms are getting the high dollar ones. They have comfortable relationships. Some of our contractors dont have those. Reporter 1 contractor working with mgm says that hasnt been his experience and hes working with mgm on three different contracteds. Ronald lipberg runs an architectural firm. He said the worth of the contracts was substantial. It is not a token. I just need a few more tokens like that and i will be good. Reporter mgm sa
Reporter now during the long effort to try and bring her husband home Elaine Weinstein had expressed great faith in the government and the efforts of the u. S. Government to bring her husband home. Late today the white house issued statements and say theres an investigation going on to try and figure out what went wrong. The congressman for this region, john delaney, is asking, he says hes outraged by what happened. He says that the u. S. Needs to do more tasmar sha we can rescue hostages to insure that we can rescue hostages and work with families and hes going to introduce legislation to try and make everybody more accountable and to make that effort more responsive and more effective. Reporting live in rockville, bruce leshan, wusa9. Now to the protests over the death of freddie gray, they popped up again today in baltimore as the investigation into how he was injured in Police Custody continues. Garrett haake is live at city hall where todays demonstrations began. Todays demonstrat
George king who was tased to death at the hospital while he was strapped to a gurney. What we want to happen, we want all those prosecuted for murder. Reporter young people with no jobs and seemingly lots of times are frustrated. Some of the cops on the street also feel they need answers now and want to begin the process of mending fences with the community. This is bruce john reporting from west baltimore for wusa9. A Community Vigil and demonstration to protest freddie grays death are scheduled for tonight and we are there. Baltimore police said five of the six officers suspended with pay for the incident have given their statements to investigators. You can see these officers in the cell phone videos. One shows the officers carrying or perhaps dragging gray into the police van. Another shows them taking them out of the van to shackle his legs a few blocks away. Today marylands governor said it seems no one knows exactly how gray suffered that injury, so hes putting a rush on getting
Starting off on our beautiful michael son camera. By this afternoon temperatures are going to warm up by 20 degrees. Another day with southerly winds at 13 Miles Per Hour right now. So breezy at times. High pressure to the east feeling the srl winds setting the stage for showers and storms this afternoon. Ill track them for you coming up. In the meantime grab the umbrella and your high today 88. Larry, over to you. Thanks. Metro riders off to a good start. The trains and buses running on schedule. Its in lanham where we have an issue this morning. Two lanes blocked on the outer loop of the beltway. Our Traffic Camera shows the delays in that area. That is the situation here. You see police on the scene traffic being able to get by. Looks like one lane closed at this point but still expect some delays out in that area. Sky 9 is over the scene of a fatal accident, this out in greenbelt where we have two right lanes blocked, traffic getting by on the lefthand side so were asking drivers t