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Undoubtedly emotional for the city. >> right. theres also two other factors that make this case very unusual. one is that because you have police officers on trial. think about it. normally, for example, if youre on the prosecution side, you want people who self-identify as law and order type people. you want people who tend to support the police. you want people who cant imagine themselfves in the shoe of the defendant. theres already been a civil settlement with the freddie gray family. usuall...

Video to tear at the hearts of all chicagoans. this is intense language as we have been reporting you havent seen a first-degree murder charge against an officer on duty in years. >> in decades. >> what we are seeing in her presentation and as always one side, this is the prosecution side. well hear from the defense. well hear later from the officer and what were hearing is not just a type of excessive force where there was a misunderstanding. what she described is a kind of targeted execution. ...

Police said the boy had a knife and refused to drop it. the officer said he feared for his life. there is video of the incident that a judge ordered released by tomorrow. msnbc chief legal correspondent ari melber is here with the latest on that. >> good morning, jose. you hit the whole point here. this video is under a court order to be released by tomorrow. the video allegedly showing the actual killing of this young man. that was over a year ago. nothing having happened in chicago from the pr...

Life saying that if it wasnt for this videotape my brothers whole character was up for debate. not debate. it was just guilty. he must have done something wrong because two police officers says so. >> im joined now by harold black, cincinnati city manager. mr. black, thank you for being with us. we heard what the prosecutor said. >> thank you. >> and certainly he was indicating that this because of the body camera video, is a very strong case for the prosecution side. you know we also heard what...

To open such an investigation." one more thing, erin. the baltimore mayor also said today the baltimore police department will get body cameras by the end of the year. >> i know very significant development as well. athena jones reporting from baltimore "outfront" tonight. jeremy elbridge a former prosecutor in the baltimore state attorneys office he work with marilyn mosby, the prosecutor for four years, he knows her. cnn commenter lamont hill and legal analyst paul cowin who served on the defe...

Experienced law enforcement officers you know point of view will baltimore police also continue to conduct its own investigation or will that be left to the defense attorneys representing those officers? >> no they will leave it to the defense attorney the prosecution side which includes baltimore city baltimore sheriffs and the states attorneys office investigators, they will all continue to be working on it still many questions that have to be answered and that goes right through to the trial ...

Hopefully this will have other actors and athletes to stand up on behalf of the cops. it would be nice to have people come out and speak on their behalf. cops are out there doing fen enemial job. look at the crime statistics in new york. how crime has dropped. talking about taking off of cops. the amount of guns fired on daily basis. assault weapons it doesnt make sense. it really doesnt even justify speaking to it because its so ridiculous that it has no basis, you know. >> you certainly have a...

Courtroom where the two sisters are there? one of them was his fiancee the mother of his child, the other on the prosecution side is the girlfriend of odin lloyd, the man hernandez killed. >> to me that is the most interesting dynamic in the courtroom. obviously, the defendant and the victim, but the connection between the two are the sisters. you had hernandez fiancee who got on the stand unwillingly. we was granted immunity and had to testify. then you have her sister which sided with the vict...

Ridiculous journey with me. >> these are the other bad people that shes been able to get the death penalty from, jared loughner, susan smith, thee. >> you have judy clarke saying you know what, she believes him and shes telling me that hes wrong. but you have to use a few other things. >> theres a prosecution side. a lot of news going on. thank you so much randy. the dzhokhar tsarnaev boston bombing case brings the debate about the death penalty to a whole different level in my mind. youre goi...

Be the next attorney general, lor letti lynch. that brings the count to 51. loretta lynch could get more votes than that when her nomination comes to a vote but mitch mcconnell has so far refused to schedule that vote. loretta limplg is on the way to becoming the longest waiting attorney general. what did she do today while waiting to be confirmed? much more than mitch mcconnell or any other senator who is trying to block her confirmation. in her job as the u.s. attorney for the eastern district...