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>> the d.a. the independent -- the man who led the independent investigation is a former baltimore police officer who was demoted and had an incident at his house who was, says the defense, had an ax to grind, or that's their allegation. >> that would be a relevant fact. thank you. is this case falling apart four days after it was filed? joining me is a criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor. that guy has no ax to grind with the cops? >> no. completely free from any bias including the prosecutor herself with all the connections. i'm outraged. let's start with the false imprisonment. c...

Gray. >> absolutely, don. i was there yesterday, and people were in high spirits. it's all because there's one step towards justice. we're all aware that we have a long way to go as far as a real conviction of those police officers. but we are happy that there is some progress in our system not failing us initially, as we saw in the eric garner case and the mike brown case and other cases around the country. >> and, jay, as we await the police to come out i know we have spoken about it, you and i spoke about it on the scene, it's really a catch-22 for the city leaders about this curfew that ta...

Money or some sort of culpability without saying they did anything wrong based on the police treatments and some of the photographs and evidence from that being damning. the other thing i would point out legally, this was such an independent investigation. one of the conflicts of interest we've seen in so many cities is even when prosecutors may want an independent investigation, what they do is wait they get that police report. yesterday some of the reporting made it sound like the police have turned it over and now this investigation begins. what we heard here from prosecutor mosby very clea...

>> reporter: talk about the resources you had independently of the police department. >> as i stated, a number of investigators. it's been all hands on approach from the very beginning. so i sent my investigators out to the scene. we have a number of them who are right here. we have working collaboration and working with the baltimore sheriff's department who has police powers and again independent from the baltimore city police department so, yes, we have leveraged the police investigation but at no point did we compromise our own independent investigation into this case. >> a few more questi...

The arrest was illegal, the knife was legal under maryland law and once they got him into the van, face down on his belly and he said he couldn't breathe, they wouldn't give him an inhaler, he pleaded for medical attention, didn't get it. she said again and again there was negligence every step of the way. so folks now, another woman walked by and said it's justice, we got justice. of course, you know this is just the beginning of a long process here but folks are already starting as word trickles out, folks are feeling like their hopes have been answered in some degree. >> all right. let me b...