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George. you re going to find three vertebrae in the back of freddie gray severed. and what that tells me and i ve been in the trenches for the last ten years dealing with these cases out here in southern california. and that what that autopsy report will tell you is freddie gray could not have received three severed vertebrae without blunt force trauma and it has to be consistent trauma pressed on his back. so let s get rid of this mythical magical houdini act that the police department released suggesting that freddie gray somehow intentionally harmed himself. this medical examiner s report will completely belie that. it s not physically and medically possible for freddie gray to sustain three severed veteran vertebrae in the back of that jailhouse van. and you re talking about that information from wjla there in ....
Has enough evidence autos we see it rye now for a criminal indictment. brian, fair to say, though, that we don t know all the answers right now, but we are getting a lot of new information and it raises a lot of questions and some fair points that you ve brought out. brian claypool, we appreciate your indiets there live in los angeles. thanks, george. well, the mayor of baltimore says the family of freddie gray and the entire city do deserve answers. while speaking at a summit of community and faith leaders thursday, mayor stephanie rawlings-blake made a fiery vow for justice. we will get justice for freddie gray. believe you me, we will get justice and we re going to do it because we re going to work together because if, we tell nation watching, three black women at three different levels can t get justice and healing for this community, you tell me where we re going to get it. one of those three women that the mayor mentioned is city prosecutor marilyn mosby. ....
That was critical last night. and i think it s going to be critical tonight. the response by parents and grandparents the response by men and women in the community, the response by church groups and pastors. we saw the nation of islam out on the streets very actively trying to stop people from throwing things at the police, trying to cord den off the areas. i think you re going to see large numbers of those same people coming out tonight, the robert valentines coming out to try to do what they can to save their communities and to keep the focus on freddie gray which is most of the protesters the people who have been peacefully protesting over the last week or more that is what they want the focus should be on freddie gray. as mr. valentine said last night, the people who were committing violence last night, ....
They allow people to address the police with and they re trying to vent their anger that way. it is extraordinarily personal to the people in this neighborhood what is happening here. every rock that was thrown every bottle they feel was for their uncle were their brother, was for their cousin. everyday will tell you in this neighborhood that they ve had a specific problem with the police. overnight 235 arrests of individuals, mostly between 18 and 30 years old. 15 police officers injured. some of them very badly. three firefighters were injured. the cvs that was burning is right across the street here as firefighters moved in there trying to turn out the fire. they were being stoned by the protesters here as well. any sign of the government or the police people here are extraordinarily distrustful of. even talking to people about the beautiful service for freddie gray yesterday before all of this broke out, people said they ....
Targeted by violent criminal gangs. second the social media call for young people for a purge or violent action at a local mall. the mall that we re talking about is really north of where freddie gray was arrested and his funeral was held. that is indeed where at 3:00 this started 0 to get returned way. kids ran in ransacking businesses stealing some things. a couple of police officers responded trying to contain it. but by 3:45 that was clear that would not be the case because it had spilled into the street where there was rock throwing brick throwing and response with tear gas and pepper spray. it was still largely in this area. but look what happened. by 4:00 everyone was on the run. basically what seemed to be happening in retrospect is that the rioters were moving more quickly than the police were changing streets, changing directions and the police could not respond quickly enough. some officers wound up isolated. ....