of african-american leaders both here in the naacp, both in south carolina and north carolina where they re saying look the flag is an important issue but we need to also address the largest systemic issues. south carolina is a state that has not taken the medicaid expansion. a lot of black lawmakers and civil rights leaders saying that s the next step address the actual inequity voting right, voter id of course health care and education. they want to see a conversation about that perceived from this flag debate. they don t want it to end with what s on that flagpole temporarily behind me, kristen. joy, we know you have had a very long night. great reporting. really appreciate you joining us this afternoon. thank you. baltimore s top cop has been fired. mayor stephanie rollings blake announced wednesday police commissioner anthony bats is being replaced after nearly three years serving one of america s most vilt lent cities. this comes 2 1/2 months after freddie gray died of inju
mcmahan had run or don kink. he speaks like a promoter. and what people like about him. and chris matthew has a great description to. a cartoon quality about him, comic book quality about him. and i understand there is a part of the country that wants a super hero to fix all of these problems and wants it like and, you know, it s all science fiction and fiction and nobody screams fiction. that is sort of like what this is getting at. but he is like combining all of that into one thing. and i do feel like this is he is going to burn himself out. is it before labor day or after. in the meantime we ll continue to play that sound because it is if nothing else highly entertaining. always good to see all of you. thank you for your time. coming up. we are following breaking news out of baltimore where mayor stephanie rollings blake has
leather seats. and this. my wife bought me that. get your credit swagger on. become a member of experian credit tracker and find out your fico score powered by experian. fico scores are used in 90% of credit decisions. breaking tonight, new pictures from the national law enforcement officers memorial in washington. look at this. a candle light vigil for the 273 u.s. law enforcement officers that died in the line of duty this year this year alone. this comes as the mayor of baltimore, stephanie rollings blake defended her leadership during the baltimore riots by saying quote, well nobody died. bernie is a former new york city commissioner. nobody died bernie, that s true. mr. commissioner, i don t want
. it is 53 past the hour. echoing her predecessor s visit to ferguson after the death of michael brown. attorney general lorretta lynch is promising to rebuild baltimore after freddie gray s death. she met with gray s family as well as mayor stephanie rollings-blake, union leaders and other top officials. lynch also offered support and praise to the city s police officers. i am looking at probably the hardest working police officers in america today. right. i have watched the police of this city. i know there are difficulties. i know we have struggles and we are here to help you work through those struggles in a way that will hopefully be the best and most productive way for this department. but to all of you who are on the front lines, i just want to say thank you. really, you are representing all of law enforcement when are you out there.
neill, forgive me. back to our reporter i m jumping in. athena jones. athena tell me what you re seeing. you re live. reporter: we ve seen that line of police officers stepping forward this is hold a new line that they haven t been holding before. we ve also been warned there could be tear gas at any moment to help disburse this crowd. the crowd has been warned i mentioned, this is san unlawful area and they should leave the areas. no arrests we ve seen. this is like i said an attempt it looks like by dozens and dozens of police officers to try to begin to push these protestors back. as i mentioned, some of them are holding signs. this is about the death of freddie gray but it s exactly the opposite of the kind of protests that freddie gray s family wanted to see or that mayor stephanie rollings blake wanted to see and several other