caution everybody this is the beginning of a process. we did witness history in one respect and that is so often these things happen and nothing happens. and i think it s sending and we witnessed history, our children, they went out there and protests for the most part peacefully. but they had to protest in order to get here. and they and this creates a faith in them. i mean, i had a young man that said to me last night, a 16-year-old, 16 years old, he said, congressman, i love you, but i feel like i m in a casket crawling and clawing to get out. just trying to get out. just trying to be somebody. so we ve still got work to do. this is from and let it be known, that this is national. yes. i said it before, these things can happen anywhere.
day, international workers day, so many people had planned to protest today for those reasons. immigration as well on the agenda. today many also coming out because of freddie gray and because of the announcement of charges against him. soon for you, we re also going to have the president who at the white house has reacted as well, to the situation developing in baltimore and this situation i call it developing, it is emerging. everything has been changing from the first day that freddie gray was arrested to the day that he died, to the day the protests erupted to the day the looting and the destruction and the crime in the streets erupted to the days afterwards in which we all waited for a police report that was just delivered yesterday to the state s attorney. i asked that state s attorney, did that police report play heavily into your decision to make the six officers now arrested and facing these charges and she said they didn t give us anything we didn t already know. they had bee
loud and clear the announcement of the charges has provoked a spontaneous street celebration at the corner of north and pennsylvania avenues. this has been the flashpoint for the protests, epicenter of some of the violence but now a street party. people out here spontaneously jumping up, laughing, cheering. they re disrupting traffic a little bit but not too seriously. a lot of horn honking loud, cars and trucks passing by, showing you some of the atmosphere here. a real street celebration here in west baltimore. but at the same time ashleigh well, have to say, that a lot of people out here are telling us that as happy as they are that these charges are being brought, that this is not over. we just talked to a couple of protesters a couple of leaders of the protests who say, they re not really going to rest until they get the convictions that they feel are deserved in the case if those convictions come. they believe this is a big victory today, one step, and they re celebrating that bi
that he did not get, time after time, six times, six times, in fact, during that arrest and transportation when he asked for help was checked on and did not get that medical help. couple things we re also watching is the streets in baltimore start to see people coming out, many of them in support, many of them calling that justice has been actually found at this point or at least observed at this point. we are a long way from the end of this justice process because charges are one thing, trials and convictions are quite another thing. we re also watching oakland, california, where there are protests and demonstrations that have erupted as well since just about two hours ago. about an hour and a half ago. marilyn mosby, state attorney for baltimore announced on the steps of the war memorial that there will be charges. it is 9:21 in the morning in oakland, california, and already probably i would say that s upwards of 200 at least on your screen, people examining out, don t forget this i
humvees and some of the larger trucks are these light medium tactical vehicles that are also in the streets and they re transporting many of the national guard members around the streets of baltimore. they are on the move in baltimore. there are spontaneous demonstrations that have erupted on the other coast in oakland, california. we can tell you that dozens upon dozens of people have come out into the streets there as well. this is may day, international workers day, so many protests may already have been scheduled prior to this very surprising announcement today from the state s attorney here in baltimore that the six officers will, in fact, face charges and naming all of the different charges. nonetheless people are emerging out into the streets spontaneously here in baltimore. we ve seen a number of people coming by with signs, many of them vocal as well, certainly when the charges were read on the steps of the war memorial, a lot of people cheering in fact. i want to go through f