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>> the president was trying to draw a very clear distinction between individuals who engaged in criminal acts like burning down a cvs or throwing a cinder block at a police officer from the vast majority of people in the city of baltimore who found a constructive and appropriate way to publicly raise their concerns about the treatment of freddie gray by the baltimore police department. >> the president spokesman said the visit to baltimore could be added to the presidents schedule in the days an...

Gathering that was definitely about to take a really bad turn. you know i walked into students, i believe they were students because they were very young of age and school aged and the police commissioner just said, they were students. but they were hurling, you know rocks, cinder blocks bottles anything they could pick up at the police and more police were coming to the scene as were more students and residents from the neighborhood. so the crowd was swelling on both sides. and you know it real...

It was about maybe seven inches long. it was a toilet brush that he had broken off and sharpened up by scraping it on -- against the cinder block wall or against the cement floor of his cell. >> i care about him about as much as he cares about me. hes not thinking -- hes not thinking when he charges me with that whether or not im going to be having commissary delivered to my cell or what type of strip search im going to go through to have to deal with him. so why should i think about him when he...

Thinking what have i got to do? voupd him surround him with cars get in a possible gun battle who could get killed with bullets flying around. this officer decided the best way to take this guy out was with the car. im 100% behind of what he did. >> and the police department says this tactic of hitting a suspect actually may have save his life. ? >> its easy for me to monday morning quarterback it but i have to question this tactic a bit. i think setting up a secure perimeter and at least making...

Hostage, he could have hurt the officer. >> the cop could have killed himself driving into a block wall. >> and the police officer could have killed himself -- could have been killed by shooting it out with this guy. so you dont know. so the officer thought this was the best thing he could do at the time. im 100% behind what this offer did. >> dan, the fact that the police officer didnt announce over the radio to the other police officers what he was going to do to marks point, you hear the offi...

His life. does this make sense? is this justified if you save their life doing it? >> it is easy for me to money morning quarterback it in the chair. i have to question the tactic. i think setting up a secure perimeter and making some attempt to negotiate may have been far more efficient. here is another angle to this. the officer who hits the suspect there also looks -- hits what looks to be like a cinder block wall so he is creating a danger for himself too. so on balance, it would be better t...

You see him drive straight into a wall which under any other circumstance would look like a fast and furious 8. this is not a police tactic. this is no tactic. in fact, you hear what the other policeman said in the first camera which is dont go there. dont go there. hes got a gun. just as easily the suspect could have turned around and started firing because he sees the car approach. this makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. you have no idea -- the officer who is coming in and hitting the brick...

>> listen up for your name. >> stand on the foot prints for me, please. >> most jail detainees have pending court cases, have been denied or are unable to make bail. >> put your stomach on the wall, hands behind your back. >> there is another type of jail detainee as well and theyre often the most dangerous. those who have just been arrested, sometimes still drunk, high on drugs or fresh from committing a crime. >> my biggest challenge in here is dealing with the various types of people that com...

Feel a little bit more feminine. >> repeat offender kimberly had just been sentenced to four years in prison for sales of a controlled substance. with her time at the l.a. county jail nearing an end, she let loose on the staff. >> i feel like the sheriffs department is organized crime itself anyway. they organize a way to disenfranchise us at every step. if we stick together, they break our pods up. i was in a whole other pod. all of a sudden im in this pod over here. why? because we all got alo...

And every five seconds it would fall down and have three or four sanitary napkins smashed up against the cinder block wall to try to keep it up. just goes to show you that when you are inside, if you need to distract yourself from the day-to-day craziness of being locked up, you will do just about anything to entertain yourself. >> as surprising as this jailhouse pickup game was, our crew found another unexpected sight back at rikers island. incarcerated mothers, raising their babies. >> she lov...