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Jones said before the break, about community reaction to today's mistrial in the case against one of the police officers involved, and praising people for playing it cool on the streets. joining me now is reverend jamal bryant, a baltimore community leader. it's good to have you on the program. when you heard there was a mistrial in the case against officer porter, what went through your mind? >> here we go again. it's obvious that this isn't going to be a job. but it's going to be a marathon, considering we've got six trials ahead of us. we thought we would be down the five, but it's groundho...

Find justice for freddie gray's family. >> and that's your concern, that if protests become violent in any way, that could give defense attorneys a reason to try to move the next trials out of baltimore? >> well, what we found out from the first uprising is that the city is more concerned about broken police glass than they are broken spines. and about the interharbor rather than the heart of the city. so we don't want to give any indication or clue that we're going to allow them to push the case outside of the parameters, because we believe it should be a jury of the peers of freddie gray. an...

Danny cevallos. what are the moves for the prosecutors moving forward on this pretrial? >> first of all, you have a bunch of witnesses who have testified, and all of those transcripts can be used later on, they can be mined for prior inconsistent statements. secondarily, the prosecutor has shown its hand. now the defense knows what they're going to do if there is a second trial. and then you have to ask the question, well, how will this mistrial seep into the minds of potential jurors going forward? so that can you impanel a new jury that is completely free of any sort of bias or opinion about...

Prosecutors interview the jurors to find out what worked and what didn't work? >> they should, in this case especially. because they'll want to know, consider this. this is a mistrial because the jury was deadlocked. so that means, from the highest charge on down to the lowest charge, they couldn't agree. what that may mean is that there was one, maybe two holdouts. if they had split the verdict and acquitted on some and convicted on the others, that might tell us something as well. but in this case, because they deadlocked on all of them, the prosecutors have to be very curious as to how the ...

People in high expectation and believing that it will, in fact, find justice for freddie gray's family. >> and that's your concern, that if protests become violent in any way, that could give defense attorneys a reason to try to move the next trials out of baltimore? >> well, what we found out from the first uprising is that the city is more concerned about broken police glass than they are broken spines. and about the interharbor rather than the heart of the city. so we don't want to give any indication or clue that we're going to allow them to push the case outside of the parameters, because...