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>> ask your question one more time, please. >> can you talk about the resources -- >> i can tell you, as i stated we have a number of investigators, you can see its been an all hands on approach from the very beginning, so i sent my investigators out to the scene, we have a number of them right here. we have working collaboration and working with the baltimore sheriffs department who has police powers and again independent from the baltimore city police department, so yes, we have leveraged the ...

The city tonight. let me get your reaction to the developments in this case that six officers have now been charged. munir? let us work out this audio issue, but let me go to michael skolnick. youve been on the show many times discussing various cases around the country where there have been in some of these cases no charges, no indictments, now here you are with six officers now being charged, and according to the state responsible for the death of freddie gray. what is your reaction? >> i thin...

According to this information, these injuries happened in that van. >> thats what it looks like. according to this prosecutors theory, whatever injuries he had, the lethal injuries injuries that led to his death, legally what are significant for a murder charge occurred in the van. he may have been hurting and it was exasperated. i spoke to a former head of a major police department this week who didnt want to take a position on this case but said on background you do see a lot of people fake in...

Militarized police departments and opp eds from rand paul and others saying whats going on? local police departments are armed to the t. now this case with freddie gray. you make eye contact and that results in a chain of events that leads to your death. >> or youre holding in his case a weapon a knife that was not illegal. this is when a majority of households have a gun in them. when you talk about violence or protecting yourself. this individual -- we know baltimore can be dangerous. hes got ...

Leveled against all six of the officers and whether or not legally theyll be able to meet that bar when they take the case further down the line but as we look at the charges, we can understand and start to evaluate from a legal perspective exactly what they were considering in the states attorneys office based on the police investigation and independent investigation, but the reaction tamron from at least this part in west baltimore, for these residents, these neighbors that have been out and p...

In, you need the help of the police. so it then becomes a complexed relationship between police and the prosecutor. >> yeah and this goes to who has the power and who has the guns. you heard the prosecutor here in this press conference saying she also works with the sheriffs department, which has police powers. what does that mean? she has a different arm structurally in the way baltimores organized separate from b.p.d. to come in issue the warrants do these arrests, so she is not relying on pol...

To mosby, was not a switchblade, and it talks about aggressive policing. you lock eyes and you are of a certain background in the wrong neighborhood, locking eyes gets you background in a certain neighborhood locking eyes gets you arrested. that is what this case makes it sound like. exactly. when you talk about excessive government. the greatest power take your liberty or life imprison you, arrest you, et cetera. you have individuals stopped repeatedly for no reason without probable cause or in...

These officers may be given the option of appearing remotely by video news conference. warrants now have been issued for their arrest. again, the charges range from basic negligence all of the way to second-degree murder. im joined here by our legal analyst, sunny hostin. im also joined by state senator kathr let me get your legal reaction. the mantra here was patience. we wont get information any time soon. this was the opposite of wait and see in some ways. this was were pressing charges right...

Weve seen as reverend sharpton said, weve seen cases and cases, never got a conviction. uplift her name that case being thrown out just a few weeks ago. we will be persistent and resilient in our quest for justice, but i think if we thank you to the attorney for respecting young people as a 35-year-old woman, the youngest top prosecutor in any major city across this country, to respect young people and not look down upon them and call them names, respect them and uplift them and thank them for e...

The number three house republican. today new york city mayor bill de blasio will meet with several police union leaders. the move comes a day after de blasio was booed and heckled while addressing recruits at a police graduation ceremony. police union leaders have blamed de blasio for the citys volatile climate following weeks of protests in the eric garner case and the execution of two nypd officers in brooklyn. the u.s. has conducted an air strike in somalia, targeting a senior leader of t...