to find out here's baltimore anatomy of an american city. we're following a funeral cortege through the outskirts of both to me. kendall stanton was shot dead at his home in. baltimore. he was 27. today his family and friends are bearing him. while the us homicide rate overall is stable. those involving black youths have risen. faultlines is in the city of baltimore to try to find out why in the inner city neighborhoods of obama's america. life for so many young african-american men continues to be a fight for survival. our city's stubborn homicide count which is lowest level since 1977. and we know that these crimes are the ones that gave us a bad reputation as a dangerous place and for too long instilled the deep seated fear that drove families away baltimore's man stephanie rawlings blake is delivering her annual state of the city address it's not time to celebrate a combative the population of baltimore the largest city in the state of maryland has been shrinking for decades. man rowlings blake wants to grow it again by 10000 families wi

baltimore uprisings fog the death of a freddie gray. interviewed by the distinguished fellow heather mcghee. "after words" is a weekly program of relevant guest hosts interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest works. all programs are also available as podcasts. >> host: hello, how are you? >> guest: i'm grateful for you during this. >> host: to give the audience the opportunity to get to know the best-selling author wes moore author of ims before, and the new book that couldn't have been more timely. you've covered the book with part of the team that was a finalist for the 2015 pulitzer prize for breaking news coverage of the death of freddie gray and at the event that followed. this book is a beautiful way to understand what happened to freddie gray, what's happened to baltimore and what happens in black and white america, how the lives that connect us in the own truths and half spoken truths and incomplete stories stop us from being one community and most importantly, five days is a way to think about the reckoning in amer

so with freddie, for many people in baltimore we know this story. there is a long line and along threat that there is something different about freddie in this moment that just captured not just the city's attention but the world. this 25 -year-old young man who loses his life simply by having an interaction with police. and there were a couple of things that really struck me why there is something different about freddie. of all the others he was the first that was caught on camera. there is important to that with the idea what did you do to justify it argument went out the window when there is footage. i know you must've said something incorrect or at some point you escalated the situation when we are literally watching the officers put them in handcuffs putting him in the back of the van than one hour later he is in a coma. the other was the appreciation for this group call black lives matter. i think about how years ago when it was first started by three black women and it's important to acknowledge that. when opal and alisha say that statement

helped oversee new police policies and training up to the death of freddie gray baltimore joyce we know via skype from baltimore in maryland could have you back on the program mr butler the pictures that we're seeing now from minneapolis just to get your reaction really to what you'll see in there to what you experienced in baltimore in the way that the community now. you might say getting around the florida family and around the community of minneapolis well i think they're very similar in the response i mean the odds were quick and pretty immediate to work we perceived to be inhumane treatment of pretty grave and the baltimore city police department back to 2016 full week you clearly see with george floyd in minneapolis i think that's primarily the difference and responses least the large your response you see is that the nation is seeing that the in the main treatment 9 minutes of mr floyd and i think that's why you see probably more lingering are protesting in and an arrest that we did back here in baltimore we're seeing an elevation of the

to find out here's baltimore anatomy of an american city. following a funeral cortege through the outskirts of both to me. and at his home in northeast baltimore. he was 27. today his family and friends are bearing him. while the us homicide rate overall is stable. those involving black

in baltimore city, for example, the baltimore police department voluntarily entered into a consent decree in 2017 with the u.s. department of justice to overhaul the police department. an earlier department of justice report had found a widespread pattern and practice of the illegal and unconstitutional conduct by the baltimore police department through targeting african american residents for disproportionate and disparate treatment. the legislation that i have authored also authorizes appropriations for additional expenses related to conflict resolution, including programs managed by the department of justice community relations services within the civil rights division. madam president, i am pleased that to date the protests in baltimore have been largely peaceful, especially compared to 2015 after the death of freddie gray in baltimore police department custody. i do hope that my fellow americans look to baltimore in 2020 as an example for how to peacefully protest and petition the government for redress of grievances as baltimore has willingly agreed to work with the u.s. department

in baltimore city, for example, the baltimore police department voluntarily entered into a consent decree in 2017, with the u.s. department of justice, to the overall police department. an earlier department of justice report had found a widespread pattern and practice of illegal and unconstitutional conduct by the baltimore police department targeting african-american residents for disapportionment and disparate treatment. the legislation that i've authored authorizes appropriations for additional expenses related to conflict resolution, including programs managed by the department of justice, community relations services within the civil rights division. madam president, i'm pleased that today the protests in baltimore are largely peaceful especially compared to 2017 and the death of freddie gray in baltimore police department custody. i do hope that my fellow americans look to baltimore in 2020 how to peacefully protest and address the government. as agreed to work with the department of justice, to overall look at the entire police force. as citizens it's fair and effective. as many o

i'll take you to a part of baltimore. pretty great grew up. being once across the slightest sensually you'll be able to tell the difference from where we just came from. you notice all the vacant businesses vacant homes. there are over 30000 vacant homes in baltimore the majority concentrated in black neighborhoods. the inequality in wealthier stark 3 times more black people than white live below the poverty line and blacks are 4 times more likely to be unemployed. this is america. richest nation in the world right. now this is going more homes this is where freddie great lived. so this is a neighborhood. flooded with poverty and adequate public housing lack of opportunity and jobs for him for. much of you're born in this community you're stuck here. most kids that grow up in poverty in baltimore city don't have the chance to leave within 5 blocks of there. where they were born to really. what's the situation with the police and you can be someone like philander castille who had a weapon that was legally purchased and still killed even though

baltimore the largest city in maryland is just one hour away. it has a population of 3000000 with a high proportion of black. in 2015 there were street protests in baltimore. triggered by the death of a 25 year old black man. freddie gray spine was severed while in police custody no officer was ever convicted. i meet up with kwame rose a young political activists who hit the headlines during the protest that probably took kwame was filmed in a well known t.v. host for failing to report the underlying race related issues fueling the on arrest i want you and fox news to get out of baltimore city because you're not here warning about the boarded up homes exterior black friday night. i think things are better are they getting better we have a white supremacist in office now may be just as bad as robert e. lee was when donald trump promotes and preys on the races ideologies that exist inside of american society you know we black people built this country from on our hands our blood sweat tears and we haven't got one ounce of compensation reparation o

in baltimore 2016, there were 380. you saw corner stores and stores people saved their money their whole life to open their stores. these are businesses in a lot of situations have been closed for months because of covid. business owners have already been struggling now their livelihoods are gone, literally up in flames. it's devastating. >> over 400 businesses were hit here in baltimore. but i did notice, there are a lot of small businesses. and as you said, a lot of people have been not able to open or out of work or putting things off. they employ a lot of people. i work with a non-profit in workforce development. the people employed by small businesses are usually getting a second chance on life. they are usually people who need the jobs the most. these people have already been on unemployment. so i think we'll see people who can't go back to work after this. it seems like a free-for-all. we had 400 businesses hit. we had 350 car fires and a lot of pharmacies that were hit. then you had more drugs on the street. pe

darling came out how did the death so for jobs floyd affect the community in baltimore and how did it impact on you personally one baltimore paper outwait because we too have a problem with police brutality and our city and accountability it affected me deeply because they opened up own form for me to think about my son who had the shack gunned down by the police and many months a simple more contact me and tell me how they were feeling and they were restless like. that what can we do how can we get a movement and rapid test step today. his last moments jobs floyd was seen calling out for his mom calling out for his mother the particular impart tone you and others yes of the so heartbreaking because i felt helpless as a fellow he couldn't get his mother felt like there was no one there protect our. film everything that was on us and has left for us and hope for this horrible way inhumane to see somebody die like that now you lost your own son dale to police violence back in 2008 tell us a bit about what happened to your son. 1st of all the fact that came to my house a day later so i d

as the entire city of baltimore had just a few years ago. that was one precinct of the hundreds of precincts and housing districts that they have in new york city. when the commissioner, rudy giuliani, and even to his defense and to some degree michael bloomberg, when they implemented broken windows and started locking up people for low-level crimes, but they found out was the guy who dumped the turnstile because he wanted cops on the street was the same guy on the train who committed a robbery. but here's the catch. he wasn't on the train because you locked him up for jumping this turnstile and that's why the results were so transparent for everyone to see. >> sean: let me ask you this question. i believe there are some crooked cops, that never should have happened and can't happen in this country what happened to george floyd. the criminal justice reform was not rock and it wasn't joe, it was drum. opportunity zones, that wasn't barack or joe. every minority group in this country one record after anoth another, that wasn't barack or joe bu

louis and baltimore, three times worse than chicago.re do black lives matter. >> sean: this tape released by the lawyer from the floyd family. only one of about 5 minutes. i cannot believe this is happening to an american citizen. listen. i guess we don't have it. >> [shouting] >> bro, he's not even [bleep] moving. get off of his neck. get off of his neck. are you serious? bro, are you serious? you're going to keep on his neck? >> touch me like that, i swear. >> bro. >> going to let him keep his hand on his neck? you're going to let him keep him like that? >> sean: it goes on, leo. it goes on. it brings tears to my eyes. this can't happen in this country, leo. why didn't the guy stop it? >> because this is where the 3%, those rotten toic the core. that was an outright murder witnessed by the entire world. that's why you have legitimate anger. as a civil rights attorney, total anger. you have the president is going to try to do something. you know what i see tomorrow? he comes up with an executive order in every democrat, because they ar

we just had an election yesterday in the city of baltimore. when prosecutors are unwilling to do their job, applying one standard of you disfor all, then you can vote them out. hopefully that's what they do in the city of minneapolis. >> former assistant state's attorney marilyn mosby. thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> we're going to head south after this in houston. nearly 60,000 people turned out to march with george floyd's family. we'll also go to atlanta where six officers have been charged after body camera showed them using stun guns on black students. first, though, a congressman with the history of making racist and flat-out outrageous comments was voted out of office last night. congressman steve king lost his primary in iowa. he had already been stripped of committee assignments because of comments he made to "the new york times" about white nationalism. i recommend nature made vitamins... because i trust their quality they were the first to have a vitamin verified by usp... ...an independent organization that sets strict quali

so this is mayor pattison baltimore. he was also my deputy chief of compliance when i moved to baltimore. both of those bureaus are basically set up the same to handle all compliance and equit equity. all of the things you mention plus the auditing capacity within the auditing organization that should bring about accountability. pretty easy to do but we can get that to you too. so thank you very much. any other questions or comments? some of the things we've talked about in anybody's been involved in law enforcement say this is an issue nationwide police officers are judged as a group every officer in the nation is applying for that. so something that i advocate for immediate out from this turmoil every time something this occurs less of some type of national standard holds all law enforcement officers accountable to at least a certain standard. just a quick example with restraint we discontinued that over three decades ago in our department and to find out it is still a packet that is taught and used across the nation i

the difference is i know it's been a long time in baltimore also and i really do commend him on the work that she's doing there but there are special oh screw it would be the government it was the person who was committing the et you give up your rights to the government you cannot fight the government you cannot run from the government you can you cannot protect yourself from the government that's why you there that special level of scrutiny where your at the under color the color of law you are paying for the gun that shoots you're paying for the salary of the police officer who shoots you and that's why that's why you there's this level been around and i think what has to happen who maintain a focus on the legislative agenda that will create real change that you know i will leave it right there robert to tell and cam clay sec thank you both for expanding on these very important topics with us today. we'll. other news from around the world a russian court has found a former u.s. marine guilty of espionage and has sentenced him to 16 years in prison today's ruling comes 18 months after

the people of baltimore have a history of really strong protest of standing up for what they believe that even though they're one of the most disadvantaged cities in the country and you know i've seen even in the suburbs of baltimore i went to a protest rally yesterday with that was led by muslims that it was current muslims for black lives and. will coming together of brotherhood again it was multi-racial multi-ethnic there were jews muslims christians all coming together in this area and you know people here are are as frustrated as anywhere in the country particularly that there have been no institutional changes when this city exploded in order to assure that something needed to change so that maybe apple is the need to happen sort of really don't you get happy so that new york city didn't need to happen and it seems like the country north of baltimore in 2015 they called the people of this city rogues they called their animals they called all kinds of names rather than paying attention and i think the rest of the country paid the price when not paying attention to the people of

well i think the difference is i know it's been a long time in baltimore also i really do commend him on the work he's doing there but there are special little screwy when the government is the person who is committing the you give up your rights to the government you cannot fight the government you cannot run from the government you can you cannot protect yourself from the government that's why you there is a special little scrutiny where your at the under color of law you are paying for the gun that shoots you're paying for the salary of the police officer who shoots you and that's why that's where you there's this little bit around it and i think what has to happen who maintain a focus on the legislative agenda that will create real change that you know what i will leave it right there robert patillo and kim clay stick thank you both for expanding on these very important topics with us today. it will. all right don't go anywhere because we'll be back at 3 pm with a lot more news for you including the governor of new york and the mayor of new york city throwing verbal jabs at one an

if you go to baltimore in summer you will see parts of baltimore that look it is out of a world country13 schools in baltimore where you can't find a black child that can read at grade level and you can't blame republicans on this, you can't blame donald trump, you can blame the endless amount of democrat-controlled every single level and i will push back on one final point that republicans do run states that are racially diverse like texas and florida, this idea the democrats are the only party that represents the broad multicultural landscape of america is not statistically true. shannon: we got to leave it there. >> republican mayors of big cities, would love to hear about that. addressing donald trump's comments. shannon: we have got to leave it there but people get the leaders they elect. of that is what they choose that is what they choose. we will take you to lafayette square outside the white house where there trying to set up autonomous zone where protesters are trying to take down a statue too. usaa was made for right now. and right now, is a time for action. so, for a second

your brother in baltimore. a congressman and a civil rights champion elijah cummings who is no longer with us. i read the words you written about him and he passed and i want to remind people. the people of baltimore the congress and the united states lost a voice of unsurpassed moral clarity and truth. our beloved chairman, elijah e. cummings, in the house he was a leader who pushes the congress and country all to rise to a higher purpose, reminding us why we are here. as he said, whenever he saw what we were not living up to, our founders vision for america, and meeting needs of our children for the future, we are better than this. and speaker pelosi, i want to end with those words, we're better than this. and what do you think your dear friend, your north star would say before where we are in america right now? >> well, one other thing that he did say is he said when we are dancing with the angels, little did we know that that would be imminent for him. but one, we're dancing with the angels. we need to be r

our main guy he owns the section right in baltimore.what is amazing as whatever way you come and you have to get off the train in baltimore and you have to walk a mile or take the carriage. but you must the train goes this way and goes to washington dc. thus my new south. the plan was abraham lincoln was good to get off at the straight and when he does and then he walks or takes a horse for anything. they were publishing not only that the train schedule and who was meeting in the newspaper every day. maybe we shouldn't tell all of his enemies who hate him exactly where his to be. there was no if answer butts about it. i think about president lincoln. he's probably in terms of president pre- secret service. somebody plots. and he was a guy that would ride to the white house. every weekend by himself. a sitting duck if you well. when you detailed that you could actually feel the tension. mister president you have to know that's not a good idea and yet he was very much about he was a connecting guy. it was one of my favorite little details

else we still have a long way to go you were heavily involved in sort of in the aftermath of the baltimore incident i mean what were the main differences this is between george floyd and the freddie gray incident in terms of the way that the lessons have or have not been learned and may well apply to the george floyd case now. i think that the lessons we learned or at least organization i think you see any quicker response both not only prosecution but the public as well on our how do you organize what to do moving or how to safely protest so here in baltimore we don't have the level of unrest after pretty gray i think that's up largely because the people who are in hot fire years ago a state of vast state active use that education they learned then helped to see each other and how to see us on what to do went out and do it and i think also you can see now the difference is the participation of law enforcement with the actual prosecution one thing we deal with here actually our state attorney here i most be with us she was actually in battle with the law the police department who actually

protests erupt friday baltimore and across the country.st volatile days through the eyes of eight people. it's called "five days: the fiery reckoning of an american city." author wes moore is also the ceo of the robin hood foundation, one of the nation's largest anti-poverty nonprofits. he joins us first on "cbs this morning." wes, good morning. i want to start -- freddie gray's death was proceeded the year before by eric garner's death and the unrest in ferguson after the michael brown shooting. they really kind of set the table for what's happening now, if you will, can you talk about how you think the protests after freddie gray's death impacted what we're seeing today? >> unfortunately we are reliving history because we've continued to allow these tragedies to recede from our collective memory without collective action. i think when we're -- when we watch the images that we saw with freddie gray and we think about what was different around freddie grain, the truth is in the two years prior to freddie gray, there was in baltimore alone,

orn you think of chicago baltimore, st. louis, where they rate ofng murder at the a war zone, do you really want to eliminate the police in those towns? i think people have to stand up and change their political leadership if they have to and yell out, go public, do whatever you have to do. that kind of stuff has to stop. jan is calling from new jersey. thank you for waiting. caller: [inaudible] fullsides are seriously a -- at fault. never resist arrest in a violent manner. what outcome do you expect to get out of that? regarding the police officer, you don't shoot somebody in the back that is running away. fact that he shot a taser at him from behind, he would not have done that if he was not being chased. there were other options. host: can we get your take on what happened? guest: i can give you my take based on the videos i have seen id reports i have heard, but have said this from the beginning, a lot of times, we should not speculate until the investigation is concluded. in this case, the investigation has not been co

parkerest, professor mentioned she was active in baltimore and that brought back a memory to me.up ofy active in a white students combined with a group of students from morgan the civicwe were in interest group and did some under very baltimore hostile conditions. i wanted to add that to the mix here. i believe it was clarence mitchell -- i don't know if that name is familiar to you. i think he went on and became a politician. two things remain with me. when i was on these picket lines, a white man came up to me and i was -- i'm white and he said i would rather see my daughter dead then on a picket line. i think up to that point, i hadn't realized the emotional dimension of what we were attempting. the second thing was when we were arrested, we were put into a police van and taken for a very wild and bumpy ride through baltimore. case camereddie gray thatt really rang a bell they had done the same thing. they had sped up and knocked him around. the same thing happen to us, and this was in 1960. i just wanted to share that. host: thank you for the call and thanks for the memories.

is not baltimore and cincinnati.they deserve their own singular examination. >> reporter: these days, many of us are focused on that sort of re-examination of the past. 28 years ago, i was a young reporter sent to cover the l.a. riots. can this part of l.a. be restored, race relations improved? over the years, i find myself in places like ferguson. like my hometown of baltimore. how is the family holding up? just last week in houston, asking the same questions. we're all brothers here. and we've all seen videotape of brothers dying in the hands of police. but now, as the country enters a third week of protests, there seems to be cautious optimism that the country is moving forward in a positive direction. >> we're finally getting our voices heard. i can tell, i can feel that change is happening. >> reporter: perhaps in the future, we'll be having different conversations. >> i hope that we can say we had such a horrific problem with race in 2020. and a movement began that caught fire around the world. we finally reali

the fellow tasked with replacing him on the baltimore was named evans, depicted here. he arrived on a warship called the yorktown. the next few months, this crisis enlarged and radiated in intensity across the united states. american public opinion got more tenacious and angry as the press manipulated and toyed with american sentiments. there is certainly nothing wrong with emphasizing the death of american sailors as a source of agitation, but there were certainly calls for war and teaching the chileans a lesson and demanding the chileans respect the power of the united states. this chorus of voices from washington, d.c. to the west coast, it seemed the american people were inclined to fight chile to force it to apologize. we could call this an affair of honor. does one have to fight for honor? can one win? most americans were brimming confident that chile must be a backwards country economically and militarily, they considered the decrepit vestiges of the spanish empire. most americans through uninformed and racist lenses, described chileans in all kinds of unsavory

a fellow named clarence mitchell, whose uncle i think became representative for baltimore. clarence organized us and he tructed us not to interact with any of the people that would say anything to us. we had our little signs we held up and it was a wonderful experience for me. i could cry right now just thinking about it. they eventually opened up the drugstore and the department store and we could sit down. i'm so proud of you listening to you because you are saying all the things we experienced at that time. thank you for letting me speak. host: delores, do you remember how long that protest lasted and how quickly -- you said eventually it changed, how long did that take? caller: i don't want to say because i don't exactly remember, but i know while i was there. i was only there for a year and a half and then i transferred to virginia union in richmond. but it opened up while i was there. host: thanks for the call. perfect guest: thank you. i'm from baltimore and so the story of morgan state students doing that work, i have benefited from that. i must thank you for that.

according to the baltimore sun, columnist susan reamer, so happy working with young journalists he wanted to create a newsroom where everyone was growing. john mcnamara was a skilled sports fan who combined these passions in his 24 year career, at the capital gazette. could write, could edit, pages, just the jack of all trades and fantastic person. rebecca smith, age 34, newly hired sales assistant known for compassion, kindness, described her as the absolute most beautiful person with the biggest heart and called her death a great loss. wendy winters, age 65, built her career, public program relations professional and journalist, well-known for her profound reporting on the achievements of people within the community. she was a proud navy mom and navy daughter. wendy saved lives during the attack, she confronted and distracted the gunman, and as the newspaper noted, wendy died protecting her friends but also in defense of her newsroom from a murderous assault. wendy died protecting freedom of the press. my heartfelt condolences and prayers, the surviving staff members deserve our continu

we were in the civic interest group and did some sit ins in baltimore.n the hostile conditions. -- under very hostile conditions. i wanted to add that to the mix and i believe it was clarence mitchell who, i don't know if that name is familiar to you, i think he later went on and become a politician. two things remain with me. and i was on these picket lines, a white man came up to me and he said to me with great hatred, i'd rather see my daughter dead than on a picket line. i think up to that point i hadn't realized the emotional dimension of what we were attempting. the second thing was, we were arrested. we were put into a police van and taken for a wild and bumpy ride through baltimore. when the freddie gray case came up, that rang a bell. they had done the same thing. they had speeded up and knocked him around because the same thing happened to us. this was a link 1960. i just wanted to share this. host: thanks for the call and the memories. professor parker? guest: thank you for that comment. what you are also pointing out is the interracial nature

the second set of words i would like to share with my colleague and dear friend who represented baltimore in the congress for many years, representative cummings gave the eulogy for freddie grady who died after nting arrested and taken into police custody. during the church service, they closed with the old testament i wanted justice, i want fairness, that's what i want, that's all i want. this story i want to share is the inspiration i felt from reading doctor martin luther king's letter from the jail in april of 1963. he wrote w me know through the painful experiences it must be demanded by the oppressed. frankly i have yet to engage in a campaign that was well-timed in the view of those that haven't suffered from the disease of segregation. for years now i've heard the word wait. it's bringing in the ears of old with piercing familiarity it's almost always been after. we must come to see. with one of our distinguished jurors justice too long delayed is justice denied. we've waited more than 340 years for our constitutional god-given rights. perhaps this is easy for those that haveg nev

in the city of baltimore, in my state of maryland, we have a terrible legacy of housing segregation. baltimore city had an explicit committee on segregation which was followed by harsh and restricted covenants and redlining that blocked our black community from economic mobility. that may seem like a long time ago, but the harmful impact of those laws is lasting, and you can still trace those red lines separating our neighborhoods today. so let us be very clear here that these disparities can be directly traced to policies that were designed, designed to discriminate. for decades federal, state, and local policies covering issues from housing to banking amounted to nothing less than state-sponsored efforts to deny african americans the basic equal rights they are owed under our constitution. and while many, many of these policies are off the books today, their legacy endures and practices endure, and it is our obligation at every level of government to uproot and to destroy those embedded policies with the same kind of deliberation that they were put in place in the first place. now,

all right now you are in east baltimore and this is all tell me all this is a mall basically right same as like a lot of black people like myself with when i was a kid become a vile close. little store. farmer scenes we have beauty supply stores so this is like a one stop shop like you come here and do everything it was a growing community during the seventy's and eighty's and this is all tell more. what happened here like any other community going to seventy's and eighty's it was a high volume of drugs and as you can see this idea became a drug trafficking environment a lot of drugs and with that being said some of those stores some of the buildings just deterring it because of the traffic of drugs and with that a little bit of violence people get shot. the crime now is undercover because. there's different drugs different drugs pills pills pills are very popular these days very popular pills a very popular people grandmothers don't feel safe walking here with groceries a mother don't feel safe would bring her son here to maybe take him to get something to eat so just all the tiling th