what happened to freddie gray and we have to give the investigation time. i wish the investigation could be concluded tonight but if you rush in you re going to miss something and then the same individuals will say that you did a faulty investigation you rushed it through and came to a conclusion. it s kind of a pick your poison kind of thing but i trust the process and the people in baltimore in this investigation that don t get it right in the end. what we don t often talk about is the patience that is required on the ground for police officers. the diligence to not respond with overwhelming force at times, to rocks being thrown or seven officers being injured. one of them apparently unresponsive. you know, what about that, sheriff? well that s a fluid state. i would say that once the rocks and bottles start to be hurled at the police all bets are off. i expect the police to be aggressive and assertive and reasonable and work under the constitution. i do expect them to trust thei
we are hearing what we are hearing. you are going to see tear gas, you are going to see pepper balls. we are going to use the appropriate methods to ensure the safety of that 5çcommunity. the police spokesman there in baltimore as the situation continues. the funeral today was held for 25-year-old freddie gray who died in police custody eight days ago after being in police custody in a closed door of a baltimore police transport. there you see his pictures. that s where these protests started. the funeral today. back the panel, juan arc lot of people spoke out at the funeral about the situation md:soo. jesse sackson says we don t need more police we need jobs. i did a panel this week for the museum of african-american history and cultures here in washington. on that panel, there was a law professor and she said we need
little police and police that are there in a defensive posture. what we ve seen from police thus far is retreating. we ve seenh$ the fire department being told to stand down. i think that further signals that this kind of chaos is okay. final thoughts in a moment as this has obviously changed our normal special report tonight as we look live in baltimore and the situation there. .if hiring plumbers, carpenters and even piano tuners were just as simple? thanks to angie s list now it is. we ve made hiring anyone from a handyman to a dog-walker as simple as a few clicks. buy their services directly at angieslist.com. no more calling around. no more hassles. and you don t even have to be a member to start shopping today. angie s list is revolutionizing local service again. visit angieslist.com today.
an african-american man who died in police custody earlier this month. we heard that police are calling for a medic at the scene of one of these incidents of violent protests that s developed. police were saying that seven officers have been injured so far. as you take a look at wjz, a look at baltimore, that is a cvs on fire one that had been previously looted earlier that we saw live on fox news cameras. standing by in baltimore, as our reporter doug mckelway, has the latest on the situation. reporter: hi bret. we managed to get ourselves closer to the cvs drugstore where the looting began earlier this afternoon. you can see thick, brown and now a whitish smoke billowing from that cvs. it has been clearly set on fire. just moments ago at this location we saw a caravan of
perhaps 40 to 50 prince george s maryland police here. they obviously need help with their police department. they are being overwhelmed. another caravan, maryland state transportation authority. a lot of people milling about. if we look over here a lot of people have been milling about. this is the case on virtually every intersection that we have visited. some are merely by standers curious about what is going on and others are residents and some are downright angry. i heard another colleague of mine saying a block from where we are standing we saw people with quarts of milk bars of soap anything that they could carry carry out of that cvs and piling them into their car. a lot of activity here. i count one, two, three, four five helicopters. some of the police helicopters other than obviously news helicopters but a very very