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That any kind of action on his part, whether it was bending of the head a rotation or a flexion or an extension of the head, any of those types of activities would have severed the cord even further. so i think it was a two-step situation. i think the initial injury to the vertebrae happened before he entered the van and the severance of the cord was exacerbated and continued in the van. that would explain, i think, the observations that weve all made. >> wow. dr. lawrence kobilinsky thank you f...

Were alone, he could not create those fractures. >> now, theres a local tv station, dr., in washington claiming that a head injury on freddie gray matches a bump in the van. what do you make of that? >> you know i think there are two issues here. i think the -- we know about the fractured three vertebrae, we know about the spinal cord that was severed about 80%. and i think given what we have observed when they dragged him to the van, it seems to me that the initial injury occurred during the st...

There is no other injury to him except those injuries related to the spinal cord injury, the breaking of the neck, and then the partial severance of the spinal cord. there is no broken other bones, none of that. theres no bruising on his body that would explain other things. that is what were working with. and thats why we have focused our reporting since this happened all the way back on april 12th we have focused our reporting on what may have happened once hes in the wagon. >> one of the ques...

Kind of scenario. >> dr.ect with -- dr. wecht, police have incested they did not use any great deal of force. theyve talked about autopsy results. they have not released the results. is that normal in a case like this? >> no, i dont believe it is. if i were the coroner, as i have been, and if there were fractures, then i would release that information. if there was a severance of the spinal cord, i would release there. there are certain things that you might want to wait for, toxicology results ...

Care before cops then eventually rushed him to a hospital. heres a picture of freddie gray before he died last sunday. you can see, hes hooked up to all sorts of tubes. police say they are also trying to piece together what happened that day. >> we will be looking specifically at our actions from the point that we came into contact with mr. gray up until the time that we requested medical assistance specifically did we miss any warnings should we have acted sooner? >> police chief claims cops di...

They are taking the injured to the air strip and back to nairobi so its quite tense. they are trying to get a severance exactly what happened. >> dennis okari in garissa kenya, thank you so much for that live report and as youve been hearing, right here on "the rundown," situation appears to be very tense. explosions, heavy gunfire in the last half hour according to dennis okari, 22 people dead and at least 25 seriously injured. some are being transported from garissa to other parts of the count...

Under the control of the department of homeland security and congress and it will be an independent investigation to look into this misconduct. >> tom fuentes, i appreciate you being on and carol, and jonathan wakro. now to ferguson days after the justice department report on racism the report after the first firing police chief thomas jackson has today resigned. hes leaving next thursday, walks away with severance money and health benefits in the d.o.j. report as working with the local to sep...

Many people on the streets is because the police chief of ferguson resigned after a lot of back and forth about whether he would and which conditions. he has a years severance. he will resign effectively in one week. what should have been maybe one of the end games of the protesters wanted. they got. it doesnt seem as they from the protester that we talked to is not enough. they still dont feel they have justice. >> that will continue. one of the things they wanted was they mentioned in the very...

Doing the mike brown shooting but lost that for years and decade failure to build that i can say utilizing a police force is almost criminal to carry out such a behavior and i think thats what mr. berry is speaking. criminal to use the police to form a police state to collect revenue to build a government on the backs of the people. >> let me take this a step further and think about you have three officials who resigned you know city manager, judge and now this police chief, all of whom will be ...

That one by one, those whose names and e-mails in that report are going whether its resigning, four resigned and one was fired. >> severance for a year? >> he gets severance for a year, and insurance for a year. and so does the city manager. the city manager, we heard in that press conference from the mayor he also gets severance for one year. >> and they say theyre now going to have a nationwide hunt for a new police chief. well see what happens and whether there is fundamental change in an ove...