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Buckle freddie gray into the back of that transport van. he was handcuffed. placed face down on the floor of that van, moved around, eventually suffered a fatal injury to his spinal cord, almost severed his spine because his head hit the inside buckle on the back of the door. he was in distress. there were stops made by the van, but no assistance given to freddie gray. did not respond to his pleas for help, in which he said he couldn't breathe. and that porter failed to help freddie gray and turned the police van into a casket on wheels. that refers to this idea of a rough ride, that a prisone...

Van, all of those things would be helped. >> joy reid thank you as always. greatly appreciate you coming on and reporting. obviously, mika body cameras in baltimore, this has been an issue before, we talked about it earlier in the weak where you actually had the city council urging the mayor to go ahead and pass a bill that would put body cameras on police officers. the hair said she was going to veto the bill. the police union didn't want it. she said she wanted to do a study instead which of course is the way politicians push things off. and the city council people were urging her at the tim...

That point he was not breathing and he didn't have a pulse. and then donte allen says they got allen out of the van first to take care of him before tending to freddie gray. this case mika and joe, as we have said is about care and custody and the possibility of criminal negligence. and those are the things that add up to criminal negligence. first of all unsecured in the van while shackled and handcuffed. two, looking at him, examining his condition and not calling a medic. three, you get to the police station and now you can see that he's probably near death he's not breathing, and instead o...

How gray suffered that head injury and what caused him to slam into the back of the police van. the details reportedly come from the results of the internal police probe and preliminary findings from the medical examiner's office. but a spokesman for the medical examiner tells the new york time that the investigation is still ongoing and, quote, we don't do preliminary findings. this comes just one day after the "washington post" reported another prisoner in the van claimed gray was banging against the walls of the police van and trying to hurt himself. now that man is breaking his silence to ...

Banging. >> allen described what he told homicide detectives when questioned. did you tell the police that you heard him banging his head against the van? >> i told homicide that. i don't work for the police. i continue tell the police nothing. when we fwt to the police station, they said he didn't have no pulse or nothing. they were calling his name, hey, mr. gray mr. gray. he wasn't responsive. >> well, jayne joining us from outside baltimore city hall. a lot of moving parts here. the young man we just heard from -- >> welcome to our world. >> exactly. but how does he fit into the investigat...