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>> it is fascinating to get a look. captain ford i appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you. >> a lot to talk about. cnn legal analyst sunny hostin and retired nypd detective harry houck. we spoke to a former baltimore police officer today who said that given prisoners what he referred to as a rough ride in a police van was a long-standing technique in the city of baltimore and that basically intentionally not strapping prisoners in and then driving erratically, giving them the so-called rough ride to punish them. have you heard of that? >> i've heard of it. and that -- that could have ha...

Hear -- the police attorney saying the injuries were sustained inside -- inside that van, i mean does that -- does that pass a smell test for you? >> well my sense of smell is pretty numb right now because i've had so many things of smell that didn't smell good. so you have to forgive me if i'm not on the money with the smell test. but many things are possible but again that would be in the realm of speculation and i don't want to do that. this is too important and i want to go where the facts tell us we should go. >> fair enough. billy murphy. it is good to have you on. thank you. and again w...

[♪] the voice of the wild within. [♪] as protests continue in baltimore over the death of freddie gray we'll take a closer look at what we know and try to learn more about what we don't know. we know that gray died after he was arrest fld baltimore. we know he had a spinal injury and we don't know whether something happened in the police van that caused the injury or if that happened before or a combination of both. is we want to look inside the type of vehicle, most of us haven't seen inside of before. a captain shows us now. captain, can he show us what the inside of the back of a poli...

Know. we want to check in with miguel marquez. migget set the scene where you are. >> reporter: it is important to keep in mind keep in mind two things. the gentleman, the police officer in the white is melvin russell, he is struksal in trying -- struksal trying to diffuse the crowd and being yelled at them and bringing protesters together with the police commissioner. and this young man who has been out here for four or five hours now. for three hours noah has been out here with this sign all by himself waiting for the protesters tods come out from -- to come out from city hall involved in th...

Car vehicle accident you have to protect the people in the back of that thing. >> professor kobilinsky that there are not sharp edges, does that mean anything. again we don't know if this technique of a rough ride is used but can they get badly injured. there was a case in 2005, a baltimore man suffered spinal injuries after being put in a police van and subjected to a rough ride? >> law enforcement has an absolutely obligation to protect prisoners in their custody. let's assume he had a seat belt on his head was still free to move in all kinds of directions. and if he did get a rough ride tha...