since this incident. so cedric alexander, you know, just bouncing off what lisa says, the police union has already written an open letter to the state s attorney here, marilyn mosby, saying they want an independent prosecutor to take over. they want a special independent investigation and prosecutor to helm this process from here on in because clearly there is a disconnect and divide between the narrative of the police and prosecutor? that s pretty much expected from any police union across the country. they re certainly going to respond to their own police constituents. however, at the end of the day of all this, ashleigh, i think what is importance here, is the fact that community has probably received what it felt it needed to in what they felt was fair. however there s still a judicial process that still has to take place and that will take place going forward. but for the union to take a stand for the people that s not
the scene where upon arrival, the medic determined that mr. gray was now in cardiac arrest and was critically and severely injured. mr. gray was rushed to the university of maryland shock trauma where he underwent surgery on april 19th, 2015, mr. gray succumbed to his injuries. we re running the tape of marilyn mosby because congressman cummings has shown up and about to give a live news conference. let s listen in as the congressman addresses everyone here. good afternoon, everyone. this morning at 7:00 i said on
did they see this man who was a mother s child? did they see this man who was was just trying to get through life? did they see him as a human being. i have come here today to thank god. thank god. that marilyn mosby and her team saw him, saw him. the process has started. that s the main thing, the process has started. so many people in the neighborhoods that you have been filming over the last few days, i think somebody said it earlier, mr. thomas i think said it, they ve never seen a victory. they ve never seen a victory. and they had begun to believe that the system could not work for them. so many of them have felt like the system had worked against them. and so again, we are beginning
emerging crime, an emerging situation. i should say alleged crime at this time. alleged. because there are six people who undoubtedly will be able to dos this. it was him or her who did it, it was not me who did it, it creates that thing that we call reasonable doubt so critical in a courtroom. are you confident that that will not be the emerging story from this case and all six, it will be too much doubt for all six to get a realistic conviction. all kinds of cases you have that situation and i am convinced that, again, she will present her case, it will be they will have their defense counsel, and the case will be presented to a judge and jury and they will make a fair and reasonable decision, period. can i ask you, congressman, did marilyn mosby have a choice? i mean, if you think really, did she have a choice? because if she had stood out on those steps, sir, and said, we can t find probable cause, we don t see any indictments downs the road, this town might have burned.
that he did not get, time after time, six times, six times, in fact, during that arrest and transportation when he asked for help was checked on and did not get that medical help. couple things we re also watching is the streets in baltimore start to see people coming out, many of them in support, many of them calling that justice has been actually found at this point or at least observed at this point. we are a long way from the end of this justice process because charges are one thing, trials and convictions are quite another thing. we re also watching oakland, california, where there are protests and demonstrations that have erupted as well since just about two hours ago. about an hour and a half ago. marilyn mosby, state attorney for baltimore announced on the steps of the war memorial that there will be charges. it is 9:21 in the morning in oakland, california, and already probably i would say that s upwards of 200 at least on your screen, people examining out, don t forget this i