This hour are taking to the streets. Theyre calling for justice for freddie gray. Thats a 25yearold black man who died days after being arrested by white Police Officers. He had been in a coma. Grays Family Says Police severed his spine. Were showing you right now live pictures of the protests in baltimore at 7 00 eastern. These protesters as we said thousands at this hour calling for an end to Police Brutality. Theyre also Holding Signs that read black lives matter. The crowds at this moment making their way to the site where gray was originally taken into custody. At that time police dragged him into a van. He was screaming in pain. Let me play that for you. Ah. [ bleep ]. Ah the outrage has been building ever since this video of grays arrest was made public and tonight, we can report that the Justice Department has now launched a civil rights investigation into grays death. Miguel marquez begins our coverage in baltimore. Hes with the protesters tonight. Miguel what are you seeing right now . Very much with the protesters. These young men are incredibly angry about everything happening here. Literally. [ bleep ] him. As you can see, theres a lot of emotion running through the streets here. We are now moving on to north street which is a very big avenue here in baltimore. Thousands, perhaps 2,000 people they marched first to the Western DistrictPolice Station, and then they marched over to the area where mr. Gray was taken into custody. The last time he was seen standing basically, he fell into a coma shortly after and died seven days later. Theres one small group of protesters here. There are several hundred more coming up behind us on other streets. And as you can see, they have shut down traffic in this area of baltimore. So far, police showing great restraint. What theyre asking for is for all six of those all six of those Police Officers who were named today to be charged with first degree murder. They say they are going to march on the city hall on thursday. And that at that point a little impossible here. At that point, they will take over city hall until they get the individuals arrested. Now, i dont know how well you can hear me. Extraordinarily unhappy. You have them talking about him being murdered. Theyre walking by you. Look theyre yelling the fbomb left right and center to your cameras. Whats the tone . The anger is very palpable. Right . This is not as calm as people might have expected. This is gilmore homes section of west baltimore. Its a very tough neighborhood. You see burned out houses everywhere. You see a lot of poverty everywhere. You see Food Security people cant afford to eat in this neighborhood. There is great, great anger and frustration, and they feel that the police force in this neighborhood doesnt stand up for their rights only knows how to arrest them. In the case of freddie gray for instance the police say he made eye contact with police and then fled and thats what caused them to go after him. In any other city in any other town not probable cause, but in this neighborhood of baltimore, it is and the people in this neighborhood. Hello, i met you last night. The people in this neighborhood are sick and tired of it and they want it to stop. This episode, for all the terrible awful things that have happened in this area freddie has lit a fuse has been a lightning rod for this neighborhood. Erin. Miguel marquez, and miguel is out with the protesters well be checking with him throughout the hour. Obviously, a very depressed area of baltimore. Protesters gathering by the thousands, and as you could hear with miguel they are extremely angry. I want to bring in jason downs out front, an attorney for freddie grays family. Miguel is on the streets right now with protesters. Theyre angry. Theyre talking about freddi gray being murdered being killed. Theyre yelling fyou, theyre extremely angry. All right . When you hear that happening, does that concern you . Is that a kind of thing you want to hear right now . Or is that not a kind of thing you want to hear right now . Well its the kind of thing that shows just how frustrated and fed up this community is with interactions between the police and the citizens of this community. They are frustrated. They are also fearful of the police. So the fact that they are carrying these signs, the fact that they are chanting its a sign of just how frustrated they really are. Are you concerned, though about the tone . Are you worried . I would imagine you want this to remain peaceful . Very much so right . Ual, my concern lines the the family of freddie gray. Theres a mother concerned about the concern of burying her son. Theres a fiancee right now that wanted to superintend the rest of her life with freddie gray and she has to bury her future husband. My concern landsies with the family of freddie gray. We were going to be joined with the Public Information officer from the Baltimore Police department. He cancelled at the last moment. Theyre dealing with the protests. That could be part of the reason why. I was going to talk to them about why they say no force was used. Hes obviously not here to make this case. His point of view the commissioner of the Baltimore Police departments view is that police didnt use lethal force on freddie gray. Are you going to be able to come up with the proof they did, that they did this they severed his spine and caused him to die . Well theres no question that there was force used. If you look at the Police Report they have the audacity to say there was no force used in the arrest of freddie gray he was arrested without force or incident. If you look at the video footage, it squarely contradicts that. Theres a man screaming in pain after he was arrested. There was clearly some force used. He wasnt screaming for no reason. He was screaming because there was force used at least by that point where hes screaming on the video footage. Let me show you the video footage because theres one specific thing they refer to that i think is important for our viewers to see especially as its Getting National attention. The country is watching. You look at the video of mr. Gray being placed into the video, police point to this specific frame right here. This is him standing on the back of the van. Right . So they had to drag him, it looked like his legs were not functioning. Then hes standing on the back of the van. They say this video frame that were lookingclearly shows gray using his legs to get in the van . Do you agree with that . Is it possible gray was refusing to cooperate with police before . Thats why it looked like they had to drag him with legs that were not working . I have seen all of the video footage, so im aware of what youre referring to and it is no question that mr. Gray is screaming in agony and screaming in pain. We dont know exactly what happened to mr. Grays legs. The only people that know exactly what happened to his legs are the officers that were handling mr. Gray and those officers need to answer the questions as to what exactly happened to his legs. How did he get taken down . How was he actually placed to the ground . Why was he screaming in such pain on the video footage . The only people who know the answers to the question are the Police Officers involved. And thats my question to you. Eyewitness testimony, some saying gray was tased. Another eyewitness said an officer had a knee in grays back he was put in a position like a pretzel that theyre saying would contribute to the severing of his spine. As we have all seen in ferguson proven in court, oftentimes eyewitness testimony is not accurate. No one is intending to li. Its just sometimes what we saw is not what we think we saw. Do you acknowledge some of the eyewitness accounts may not be correct, jason . Whats really important here is we dont have to only rely on eyewitness testimony. We are able to also rely on what we can clearly see and cleary hear in the video footage. We can clearly see a man whose legs appear not to be functional. We can clearly see a man that is in pain so we dont have to solely rely on eyewitness testimony. We can rely on the video footage and also the fact that the video footage contradicts the Police Report that says there was no force used in the arrest of mr. Gray and that is squarely contradicted by the fact hes screaming in agony at the point where hes placed in the van. And jason, in terms of what happened in that police van, we know that the driver of that van said that they needed an additional unit for him. Then they said that around 8 59 on the clock. That they needed an additional unit. It wasnt until 9 54 that a call was made for a medic. Do you have any sense of what happened in that 25minute timeframe . I have a screen up for our viewers to see. 8 59 additional unit was called. Medic was not called until 9 24. Does that gap concern you or is that something that can be explained . The gap is tremendously disturbing. Mr. Gray was unlawfully districted just a few blocks away at four or five blocks away at best a sixminute walk. In a police van, its a twominute drive or less. There should have been no reason he wasnt at least transported to the Western District and the fact it took so long for the police to call for medical help that is of great concern. Grays family i know will be at the protest tonight. Thats our understanding, jason, unless you tell me otherwise. As you know our reporter you just heard him being yelled fyou, repeatedly thats a few people in one area. Possibly just a few bad actors. But nonetheless, that just happened to happen live on television for the entire country to see. What is the familys message to the thousands of people gathering tonight in baltimore to protest . The family is grief stricken right now. They are concerned with burying mr. Gray. At this point, what their concern is how theyre going to bury their son, how theyre going to bury their brother. And are these officers going to be brought to justice. Thats their primary concern at this juncture. Thank you very much. I really appreciate your time sir, tonight. Thank you. Outfront next our coverage continues of the protests in baltimore live tonight. Thousands gathering. This is not the first time the Police Department in baltimore has been under fire. 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What are you seeing . Well, what we were seeing earlier today is they started where miguel was and headed down the street just two and a half three blocks from where we are, the western police district. This is where the crowd gathered. There was an incredible amount of emotion over the course of several hours because you had the mother and the father of freddie gray here and the pastor who was expressing a lot of emotion. What i saw here was a lot of people who were chanting together raising their hands, saying this is not a sign of weakness or surrender but a sign of strength. They wanted a moment of silence for freddie gray. I asked many people who were here why are you here . I saw mothers with their babies in strollers. Young boys on bicycles. Its like the whole Community Came out together to make a statement. One person said it is because im black. Simply because i am black, and this should not happen to someone like this to freddie gray. That everybody matters here. Theres a different story for different folks. A lot of people saying hey, maybe there is a racial component to it. There are other people saying we have had problems with africanamerican police as well. This is a Police Brutality case. Either way, what youre seeing here and saw earl yewas a lot of frustration, anger, and passion about the relationship that this community has with its Police Department. And i had a chance erin to talk to the attorney of the family and he says one of the most frustrating things today, if you can imagine, is really talking to the mother and talking to the father. Thinking that theyre going to have an autopsy report delivered to them to get information about how it is that their son died and to think that perhaps they would, too, get the body of freddie gray. That has not happened. This is something that they feel is even more hurtful to the community. Now, we are learning that its going to be on thursday. Theyre going tomake their presence known at city hall. Once again, the parents and the pastor and the Community Coming together to try to convey this message that they want this investigation speeded up. Theyre also going to be doing their own investigation. But this is something that is really boiling. Its hard to be patient, and this community expressed that today. All right, thank you very much. Outfront now, retired nypd detective harry hawken Mark Lamont Hill host for b. E. T. News and huff most life. Suzanne used the word boiling over. We saw that when you looked at Miguel Marquez on the street. We saw that. You and i were both looking at each other. Could this turn into Something Else inthaz else . They were incredkredcredibly angry. We dont want to see violence not just against cnn cameramen, but against anybody. But wree have to understand these men and women are profoundly frustrated. Theyre angry. This is not an isolated occurrence. If you talk to young men in baltimore or d. C. Or harlem you hear these stories constantly. The rare occasion that you ged a videotaped incident is where you can get some legitimacy to a claim you have been making for a long time. Harry, i spoke to one of the attorneys for freddie grays family yesterday. I asked him the question about race. He said, yes, race played a role in this. When you look at the images you have a young black men and white police in the shot. Thats the picture youre looking at. That doesnt in and of itself say race is involved but to a lot of people they feel it viscerally that it is. Thats because attorneys like him are putting that information out there. There is no indication that race is involved at all. Its a black neighborhood. Highcrime neighborhood. Were not going to go around looking for white guys to stop when theres none there. It appears the officers had reasonable suspicion to make the stop. When they made the stop last night when i was on another show last night, they were talking about, we had a forensic pathologist who was there. I asked him specifically if an officer put his knee on that mans neck would that cause the injury that the man sustained . He said no it would have to be some kind of Blunt Force Trauma to sustain an injury to his neck. As you can see in that video where the officers had him down. Theres a small wall behind that. Okay maybe when the officers took him down the back of his head hit that wall. Accidentally . It might have been accidentally. I dont know. Well we dont know that. Im asking if its plausible . I dont know. Its definitely plausible. Right, if they did to the point mark is getting at. It would take that kind of blow. I hear your point. I also hear marks. If they were to have done that slammed his head into the wall to get him to shut up or whatever they were trying doto do would that classify as Police Brutality . Yes, if he was handcuffed. Even if you werent handcuffed i think whats happened is theyre involved in the struggle. This is just all speculation on my part here because none of us know the facts that happened in the case. Although it is disturbing, you have a 20minute gap when the vehicle was stopped before they made it to the station house. Im wondering whats going on. When they picked him up off the ground he could not walk. Then when he was on the van, he was standing by himself. Thats what the frame are pointing to. Theyre saying when hes dragged down the street he couldnt use his legs at all, but then when hes on the edge of the van, hes standing up. Thats my point. There are a lot of it could be the injury happened in the van with the cops right . Absolutely. We dont know whats in the officers heads. You dont know whats in the officers heads or anybody elses. Unless theyre saying im doing this because your black. But police never grab your head and slam it into a wall and say im doing this because youre black. You cant make an assumption its because hes black. Hes stopped in a black neighborhood. Who else are you going to stop . Its a high crime area. That presumes somebody that to get beaten or abused in a highcrime neighborhood. Even