We know our Police Employees failed to get him medical attention in a timely manner multiple times. The Police Commissioner went on to say dozens of interviews have been conducted and many more remain. Investigators are gathering and reviewing City Surveillance video that might help. He also vowed anyone who harmed freddie gray will be prosecuted. We are learning now freddie gray is not the first person to come out of a police van with some political injuries or the first to have died from them. Turns out Court Records show us baltimore cops have a disturbing history of being accused of intentionally roughing up handcuffed prisoners who cant brace themselves from being given what people on the street call the cowboy ride. Our scott broom is live in baltimore with more on that. Scott, the cowboy ride . Reporter yeah. They call it the cowboy ride or the rough ride, sort of a version of street justice where bliss throw somebody in the back of a street van. They cant police throw somebody
If there are any more victims out there, they should come forward. Reporting live in silver spring, bruce leshan, wusa9. A judge did set a 25,000 personal bond for wilson today which means he could get out soon and only forfeit the money if he fails to turn up for his next hearing. Felony child abuse could send him to prison for 25 years. The other counts carry a maximum of 10 years each. Right now protesters in baltimore continue to demand answers following the unexplained death of a man in Police Custody and Police Commissioner Anthony Batts spoke out about the incident moments ago. The video footage of the tv camera that may have caught even a single moment of the incident is under review. This city has pretty close to 600 cameras within the city as a whole. Much of that footage will be released today. Commissioner batts also said that the medical examiner has given police a preliminary report, that they are still working on a cause of death. Batts also said that despite calls for h
Protests demanding answers to so many questions about how freddie gray was fatally wounded in police custody. I think that theres got to be a persistent traction so that the city hall and the Police Department know its not an event. Its a movement and now its much larger than freddie gray. Reporter the main group set off from city hall through downtown baltimore trailed by news helicopters and police who made two arrests briefly setting off a confrontation with the marchers. Meanwhile across town the church which will host grays funeral next week opened its doors to anyone who would listen to a singe vigil tonight. We did not come to incite anybody to any kind of violent acts. Reporter by sundown the remaining demonstrators had reached the Western District where a calmer atmosphere prevailed than last night. Children talked with police over the barricades and protesters greeted reporters as old friends. I was angry. Reporter this is scotts anger yesterday. Today he explained where it c
Is not the first one to die. Today we learned Baltimore Police have a history of being accused of roughing up handcuffed suspects. People on the street call it the cowboy ride. Reporter im scott broom in baltimore where Court Records show freddie gray is not the first person to come out of a police van critically injured. His name was jeffrey alston. He ended up with a critical worse by an allegedly intentional rough ride in a police van after a Boston Marathon arrest. A jury awarded him 39 after a baltimore arrest. A jury awarded him 39 million. Same type of scenarioful theyre thrown into the back of the scenario. Theyre thrown into the back of paddy wagon. Theyre unbelted. The inside of the wagons are not padded. They cant protect themselves and they get thrown to one side or the other usually striking her head fracturing their neck. Reporter this woman claims to be an intentional victim of a socalled rough ride in 2012. Scott broom, wusa9. So much attention on the freddie gray inves
Body out, i just lost it. Its just so incredibly touching. Reporter the sight chokes up mcraes exwife. They were married three years from 2005 to 2008. She says the 44yearold d. C. Native has two sons from an earlier marriage and this is him and his oldest son desmond and now has a daughter with his current wife. Mcrae fought fires in the district over 20 years. He responded to this fire at a high rise in the shaw neighborhood this morning. He came out, then collapsed. An hour later he was dead. The world is missing kevin andre mcrae, lieutenant, husband, father, son, brother, uncle, cousin, friend, just an all around wonderful person. Reporter mcrae is the 100th firefighter to die in the line of duty in the district. The 99th . His cousin james mcrae who died of a heart attack in 2007. It was devastating it. It was a complete shock. 10 always had a smile on his face. I i kevin always had a smile on his face, always had a positive attitude. It could get pretty ugly in the last 20 hours