with me now from baltimore, i have city councilman brandon scott. also with me atlanta civil rights activist reverend marquel hutchins. thank you so much for joining me. >> good to be with you. >> thank you. >> brandon, let me begin with you since we just heard from the mayor. i know i have specifics for you beyond that but can you -- i don't know if you were able to hear what the mayor just said. i know it's kind of loud where you are. can you hear me sir? >> yes, i can hear you just fine. >> okay. the mayor has been criticized for being too calm in handling this. how do you think she's handling it? >> well i think in a time like this our leaders have to be calm. we have to express upon folks what the processes are. we have to understand the frustrations of people but we have to let folks know that we have to follow the rules of the law. the laws are the laws. yes, people in our city should be angry. yes, they should be upset. but the laws are laws. there has been effort in this state led by many folks, including our mayor, to change some of the law

councilman brandon scott thank withdrew very much for your time tonight.appreciate it. >> thank you. >> all right. we have a lot of folks here who have a lot to say. i want to bring in this young lady. lady, what's your name? >> ranita. >> i live in washington. i've been attending college, morgan state university. >> you go to college. you've been out here. >> yes, sir. >> what do you feel about what's going on today? >> i feel we're in a neighborhood where a lot of people are oppressed, have limited resources and don't have a good sense of how to channel their energy and their frustrations. their frustrations are stemming from a long history of injustices they've been subjected to and now they are acting out. >> but i've heard that and i think that's -- a lot of people would agree with you. i also people like a lot of people, what that gentleman was saying to me before is freddie gray died people got angry, they got upset. we saw what happened yesterday after the funeral. people only are paying attention now because we burnt some things down. now you're h

. >> council marb brandon scott and eric costelo and i want to thank kiefer mitchell for being here on behalf of governor hogan and for all of your work. >> that's the mayor of baltimore stephanie rawlings-blake thanking officials and of course, going to get into the meat of what's happening there and the response to this plant. we check in with bay area's police department and only oakland police are adding extra staff in case any companion protests break out there. >>> san francisco and san jose police are giving their officers a head's up to be more vigilant. >> stay with abc 7 news for any updates and follow us on twitter abc 7 news bay area. >>> all right. let's get back to the news conference now. >> the police department is not going to stand for that. we're fully deployed at this point. we canceled leave for all our police officers so they are on the streets as we speak. each shift is fully staffed and called in outside resources from all over the state of maryland to give us an assist here. we're not going to tolerate this. our priorities right now is to restore order in the c

and now i want to bring in mary cook an attorney and councilman brandon scott. good evening to both of you. thank you both. mary to you first. >> good evening. >> good morning. >> good evening. how is the family doing today. do you know yet when freddie's body will be released for the funeral? >> we're in the process of making those arrangements right now. the most you can say about freddie gray's family is they are totally devastated. they have -- they tried to process the loss of their son, their brother, their friend their fiancee, and they are just dealing with that right now. and, you know the body will be released when the arrangements are made. >> i want to ask you about the new video released today. it shows the moment when police were shackling freddie's legs mary. have police told you why they did that? >> no. the police have not made any comments to us. and i know that the police officers have allegedly given statements. i don't know that the statements have been released at this point in time. they certainly haven't been given to us. and so no i can'

brandon scott says, though people want questions answered quickly, that can't simply happen in gray's case. >> if you want justice for gray's family and community we should not release information that cannot legally be released. >> the focus shifts to tomorrow's protest. all police leave cancelled. they hope they don't need them. >> to any and all that would seek to bring chaos to our city, the people of baltimore will not tolerate you hurting our community. where we live. where we worship. where our kids go to school. >> reporter: well, that march and protest will begin tomorrow at 1:00 in the afternoon in west baltimore and they'll march and be in the downtown for early evening. freddy gray's body has been released to his family. it is at and undisclosed funeral home. funeral will be slated for monday. lisa. >> john thank you. >>> civil rights icon ruby bridges has a unique perspective on race and violence. in 1979, she became a symbol of the movement, only six years old she was threatened and cursed and years later her teen aged son was shot and killed. she talked about both with

also joining us, brandon scott, vice chairman of the baltimore city council. have the names and i'm going to read them of the names of the people who have been suspended. lieutenant brian rice, officer caesar goodson, sergeant alicia white, officer william porter, officer garrett miller, officer edward nero. we don't have any idea who at this stage did what in that arrest. but what are you hoping for as the next round of public revelation? what should we look for as the next source of information that brings us closer to what happened there? >> well, we know that in maryland we have a police officer civil rights that precludes information from being shared from particular times. so we're hoping at this case moves forward, the out of state gets this case, the justice department gets this case examine the police department is able to share information, we're hoping the blank spots will get filled in. when did this individual request medical attention? when did the police department call them? where are the gaps? that's what we're hoping to see moving forward. so

i want to thank councilman brandon scott for being here. also councilman eric costello i want to thank kiefer mitchell for being here on behalf of governor hogan and for all of your work coordinating this response. i'm going to ask colonel dedusa to speak. >> that's a news press conference in baltimore. joining me now is nbc's brian mooar. brian, do we have you there? likes like we don't have brian. let's go back to the presser. >> mainly towards the west side of baltimore. we're not going to tolerate that. the police department is not going to stand for that. we're fully deployed at this point. we canceled leave for all our police officers. so they are deployed on the streets as we speak. each shift is fully staffed. we called in outside resources from all over the state of maryland to give us an assist here. we're not going to tolerate this. our priorities right now is to restore order in the city. our priorities right now is officer safety, and the safety of the community. thank you. >> good evening. i am deeply saddened by what's taking

i want to thank counselman brandon scott for being here also, counselman eric costello and mitchell forn behalf of governor hogan and for all of your work coordinating this response. i'm going to ask the colonial to speak and i'll ask counsel president jack young. >> thank you, ma'am. good evening, everyone. i'm the chief of patrol for baltimore city police department. at this point, i just want to mention a couple of things real quick is that like the mayor said we love our baltimore city. right now, we're seeing unprecedented type of violence throughout the city. mainly towards the west side of baltimore. we're not going to tolerate that. the police department is not going to stand for that. we're fully deployed at this point.

. >> council marb brandon scott and eric costelo and i want to thank kiefer mitchell for being here onvernor hogan and for all of your work. >> that's the mayor of baltimore stephanie rawlings-blake thanking officials and of course, going to get into the meat of what's happening there and the response to this plant. we check in with bay area's police department and only oakland police are adding extra staff in case any companion protests break out there. >>> san francisco and san jose police are giving their officers a head's up to be more vigilant. >> stay with abc 7 news for any updates and follow us on twitter abc 7 news bay area. >>> all right. let's get back to the news conference now. >> the police department is not going to stand for that. we're fully deployed at this point. we canceled leave for

with me on the phone is baltimore city councilman brandon scott, he's the vice chair of the council ands surveying the damage. brandon, thank you so much for joining us. >> no problem, thanks for having me. >> words resinated tremendously yesterday with people. you were very frank in your anger, what you watched play out there. how do you explain to people wondering why there seems to be such limited police presence with all of this blowing up live on television? >> yeah we understand that. i think that it just -- glad the police were there, they were out there, but for us it's a lot deeper than just the police response. it was also right now we're actually out with 300 men marching in east baltimore to talk about the community response, the community responsibility, we know the police have a responsibility, but we also have a responsibility. no one wanted to see what we saw last night, you understand that not making excuses for the kids that did that how the police handled the situation, but it's easy to blame on these monday morning quarterbacks folks that would have engaged like ferg

i want to thank councilman brandon scott for being here also. councilman eric costello. thank kiefer mitchell for being here on behalf of governor hogan, and for all of your work coordinating this response. i'm going to ask colonel de souza to speak and i'll ask council president jack young. colonel? >> thank you, ma'am. good evening, everyone. i'm colonel de souza, the chief of patrol for baltimore city police department. at this point i just want to mention a couple of things real quick is that like the mayor said we love our baltimore city. right now we're seeing unprecedented type of violence throughout the city. mainly towards the west side of baltimore. we're not going to tolerate tat. the police department is not going to stand for that. we're fully deployed at this

. >> joining us is baltimore city councilman and community leader brandon scott.iate you being here. baltimore, as you know has a black mayor and a black police commissioner. you told "the new york times" that unlike other places where incidents like this have happened federal ferguson north charleston, south carolina, they understand what it means to be black in america. we don't yet know lou freddie gray -- don't yet know how freddie gray died. how does this still happen in that community? >> it happens because we know in america we still have -- in baltimore, no matter where are you in this country we have a big image problem when it comes to young black males. it's a $1 billion industry that creates negative stereotypes of young black males. we have not started to address that. we have not addressed the issues of black men and police. we have not started to address the issues of black men with their families -- >> should it be different in baltimore because there's a black mayor and black police chief? and the hope would be we don't know the specific race brea

. >> joining me now is baltimore city councilman brandon scott who made the remark last night.nk you for being with us. your call to have people come out on the streets and we saw a lot of that last night and it seems like today, that call is really resonating. there is even more exponentially more how confident are you that will make a difference tonight? >> it is making a difference and it is making a difference in the community we've seen. member and women and children in the street to make a difference. my guys were out there yesterday during the chaos and we're out there again today. east and west baltimore. we're always out there. and the more people see, especially men in ourp commune -- in our community and that is why we've been pleading for more men to get involved in our community and get involved with our young people because we know the pain and suffering that we have and a lot of what they need is capital from a caring adult. >> and we were just talking to people who are standing in the line between police -- >> i was out there today. in one of the groups. >> we w

brandon scott, who is a second district councilman here in baltimore, went even further. he used an expletive. he's really angry calling on parents to rein in their children and to stop behaving in this way. he said what's happening here isn't the criminal element of baltimore is taking advantage of the situation that is escalating over the past couple of hours. what you're seeing on your television screens is not the people of santown where freddie gray lived who protested peacefully but this is other people agitating and jumping on the bandwagon. he called on them to stop. >> let me ask you this john. based on what you saw through the afternoon, it appears from the pictures we see that things have calmed down some. is that really what's happening on the ground there? >> reporter: well i'm not sure that is the case. i'm afraid that what we have now is a situation where the police might have rather lost control of certain groups of these protesters who are now running around the city. irng that what happened in the early part of the afternoon midway through at the mondami

i want to thank councilman brandon scott for being here also. councilman eric costello. i want to thank kiefer mitchell for being here on behalf of governor hogan, and for all of your work coordinating this response. i'm going to ask colonel de souza to speak and i'll ask council president jack young. colonel? >> thank you, ma'am. good evening, everyone. i'm colonel de souza, the chief of patrol for baltimore city police department. at this point i just want to mention a couple of things real quick is that like the mayor said we love our baltimore city. right now we're seeing unprecedented type of violence throughout the city. mainly towards the west side of baltimore. we're not going to tolerate tat. the police department is not going to stand for that. we're fully deployed at this point. we canceled leave for all of our police officers so they're deployed on the streets as we speak. each shift is fully staffed. we called in outside resources from all over the state of maryland to give us an assist here. we're not going to tolerate this. our priorities right now is to r

i want to thank counselman brandon scott for being here also, counselman eric costello and mitchell for being here on behalf of governor hogan and for all of your work coordinating this response. i'm going to ask the colonial to speak and i'll ask counsel president jack young. >> thank you, ma'am. good evening, everyone. i'm the chief of patrol for baltimore city police department. at this point, i just want to mention a couple of things real quick is that like the mayor said we love our baltimore city. right now, we're seeing unprecedented type of violence throughout the city. mainly towards the west side of baltimore. we're not going to tolerate that. the police department is not going to stand for that. we're fully deployed at this point. we cancel leave for all our police officers. so they are deployed on the streets, as we speak. each shift is staffed. we called in outside resources from all over the state of march maryland to give us assistance. we're not going to tolerate this. our priorities right now is to restore order in the city. our priorities right now is officer safety an

want to go now to brandon scott.s baltimore city councilman also here with me is keith haines deputy majority whip for maryland house of delegates who represents baltimore. and jason downs is going to join us in just a little bit. brandon brandon, you said earlier that you were pissed you were angry. why are you so upset? >> i'm angry because we're destroying our own city. this is a city i love and i grew up i dedicated my life to. this is a city i want to continue to progress. yes, baltimore has its issues but it's a hell of a lot better than the baltimore that i grew up in. we know the rioting doesn't work. i'm angry that we have cowards leading children into doing things that will destroy their future. talk to the kids help them understand how this is hurting them. >> play devil's advocate. the peaceful protests didn't work. years of saying we had issues with the police, and now we can only resort to this violence? >> no what i would say to that i grew up in a city that was still bombed out and depleted in 1968 --

also city councilman brandon scott and jamal brian.t's a word that should not be used? >> i think we have to look at the situation, and we know that's a word that the president uses all of the time. it's not a new thing for me. and i think what we're doing is oversensationalizing something when we really should be worried about these young people and their well-being and what we'll do to help them move forward. to me what's more important, we know they're hurting and they have been hurting. how we can help them repair their lives, and let's stop focusing on that and how we're going to move them forward. >> you spent a lot of today in schools, talking to young people. i'm curious to know what you heard from them and what your message to them was. >> my message to them when this incident started, i'm in schools almost every day anyway. i wanted to talk specifically about this incident. my message today was to remember these are your neighborhoods, this is your city this is your town these are your family and friends. you have to protect

. >> brandon scott. councilman, first of all, thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me reverend. >> what is the mood on the streets tonight, councilman? >> so it's a much more peaceful mood and in the streets is a mood of activism and hope. we know that baltimore, we saw the charm city i spent today and members talking to students talking to young people what is going on. they're angry at some of the rioting and looting. they're angry about some of the situations their friends live in. they want to see change but they want to see change in a positive way. that's what we're seeing with the protesters. that's what we're seeing with the young folks that are leading the marches and things like that. that's what we want to see. we want to see them now and until we get change. we know they will work with all of us to make that happen. >> councilman one of the things i heard yesterday when i was in baltimore, and i'll be back tomorrow for the leadership summit is that people want to stress the condi

i want to thank councilman brandon scott for being here. also councilman eric costello i want to thank kiefer mitchell for being here on behalf of governor hogan and for all of your work coordinating this response. i'm going to ask colonel dedusa to speak. >> that's a news press conference in baltimore. joining me now is nbc's brian mooar. brian, do we have you there? likes like we don't have brian. let's go back to the presser. >> mainly towards the west side of baltimore. we're not going to tolerate that. the

here councilman brandon scott for being here also and eric costello and kiefer michele. on behalf of gov. hogan and all your work in it coordinating this response of an ax curdled to sue the to speak and not ask >>: colonel dirl disposal and the chief of patrol for the police department and this one a mention a couple of things like the mayor says we love our baltimore city right now we're seeing unprecedented tide of violence rocked the city mainly toward the west side of baltimore were not but tolerated the police the promise is not gonna tolerate it. we're fully deployed at this point oligopolies officers are deployed on the street as we speak they are fully staffed with called out all called been offside resources from all the state of maryland to give us assistance we will not tolerate this our priorities right now is to restore order in the city. are all priorities right now our officers' safety. >>: i am deeply saddened by what is taking place in the great city of baltimore this reminds me of 1968 when the rate brackets were taken place during the assassination of

and we have brandon scott, baltimore city councilman.h of you. >> good morning. >> the family yesterday, they expected a day of bereavement and calm so that they could lay their loved one to peace. they got the opposite. how are they handling it? >> last night they obviously told everyone how they felt asked for everyone to be peaceful. they've been so devastated by the loss of their son, the one thing they wanted was peace and calm on the day he was actually you know buried. and asked the community to do that. the community didn't honor their wishes. and in that way they dishonored freddie's legacy. so i think disappointment and hope that after the terrible events of yesterday that there will be calm and that people will step back and allow the investigation to take the forefront because that's what really matters at this point in time. >> that is his legacy of freddie gray will be the truth of the situation. and any way you look at it, this is a distraction from that no matter how justified people may feel about their outrage. >> absol

scott. shamari stone was there as he was honored for his quick actions. >> definitely -- >> brandon has a right to feel good tonight. >> i got to save my dad's life. >> reporter: this 12-year-old saved his father from choking to death on a hamburger in fredericksburg fredericksburg virginia. >> i swallowed a piece of burger and it got caught in my throat and cut my air off. >> brandon knew exactly what to do. >> i did something about it. >> he grabbed his dad from behind and did the heimlich maneuver. >> he learned it with the boy scouts at the first aid class. >> using the skills that brandon had learned and common sense and good studies, he participated in dislodging that hamburger. >> tonight the boy scouts honored him with the medal of merit and certificate for his service. please join me in a round of applause. >> reporter: darrel thinks his son and boy scouts are teaching how to save lives. >> it's a great organization, do a lot of good for the community. >> he wants to grow up to be a firefighter to help people. >> a good reminder for all of us. in fredericksburg virginia news 4. >> and

brandon had debris embedded in his head. his father, jim rushed to his bedside. >> kisses kisses. i love you honey. i love you baby. >> reporter: scott pelley spoke with jim den they night. >> pelley: you've seen the building. >> i've seen the building, what's left of it. >> pelley: it's a miracle you have your children today. >> it's an absolute miracle. >> reporter: 20 years later jim and claudia denny say their family has survived the bombing but that was just the beginning. >> it's with us every hour of every day and we see it and live it. >> reporter: doctors thought their son brandon would never walk again but he graduated high school and now works for goodwill. his parents say he understands everything going on around him but still has trouble speaking. >> he was healthy and had all the potential in the world, and this bombing, you know, he has limited capabilities now. >> reporter: their daughter, rebecca, recovered from minor injuries. she graduates from college soon, and is getting married. but the dennys can't forget the 19 other children killed that day. >> next to her was her wonderful son. >> reporter: they often visit

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