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>> hold on for a moment mark morial. i want to remind our viewers what we're seeing that march going on. those are protesters but those are family members, including the mother of freddie gray the 25-year-old young man who died in police custody after his neck his spine was broken went into a coma and died in the hospital. the mother had her face covered with a hoodie but now she's being covered by some friends or relatives as they're walking through the streets. joey jackson, our hln legal analyst, criminal defense attorney weigh in on your thoughts joey. >> well we know wolf there will be a ...

And fathers and sisters and brothers after their loved ones have been killed and had them do an interview and be composed. when i sat down with the three mothers in ferguson michael brown's mother and other mothers, i could not believe they had the courage and the strength -- trayvon martin's mother the courage and the strength to do it. i can't even imagine what this family is going through right now. i would think that they're being held up by the support that they're getting from the community and from around the world and that there is some confidence that they have some confidence that th...

Transparency for parallel investigations by the state's attorney by the department of justice to move forward very very quickly. i think the response of people is just a shocking sense of being fed up. we're fed up with just an incident after incident. and what's happened in america is america now sees that these type of incidents have happened for a long time. but telephone cameras, transparency video cams people's response indicates that it's time to turn the corner. >> well i just want to be precise, mark. you have confidence in the mayor of baltimore, the police chief in baltimore that the...

Was it justified? so while i certainly believe we've got to let the investigation run its course it just seems there's been an unacceptable pattern of police incidents involving young african-american men. now we have a young african-american man who is of the highest potential because he's a student at the university of virginia. we need to get the facts and see what happens. but again, it points to the work we need to do. >> all right marc morial thank you so much for your insight this afternoon. >> thanks, kristen. >> the next challenge for president obama ahead of his trip to latin america...

And latinos. this year's report shows positive overall gains in equality for both groups from 2014 but also where more progress needs to be made. mark morial joins me now. thanks so much for joining me. >> thanks, kristen. >> the state of black america report, you found that the equality index rating is up it's at 72%. it's inched up a little bit. give us a better -- give us a better understanding of what the index is and what this increase actually means nationally? >> the index is very very small. but i think it's more helpful if we look inside the numbers. so inside the numbers and inside t...