dondi johnson's family filed a lawsuit against the department. at trial, officer leak who drove the police van testified i did not seat belt him because she thought he had a full bladder. she denied purposely giving him a rough ride. the johnson family was awarded a wrongful death verdict and won $1.4 million. but on appeal, it was reduced to $500,000. now the gray family is wondering if these two early similar cases are more than just coincidence. >> european union leaders are pledging to triple the funding for search and rescue operations in the mediterranean sea just days after a migrant ship cap sized leaving more than 800 feared drowned. the $130 million a year financing now puts the operation on par with a similar mission by italy that was controversially canceled last year. after wrapping an emergency summit thursday, britain says it will pledge three ships and rescue aircraft and france and germany say they will provide two ships each to the multi layered mission. >> translator: first, we must do everything to take on and continue the fig

talking about is one that happened while you were commissioner back in 2005 when police arrested dondi johnsonhe back of a van handcuffed. he did not have a seat belt on. he suffered a spinal injury and later died. his family won a multi-million dollar judgment that was eventually reduced to $219,000. is there a possibility that this practice called rough rides is more common than we know leonard? >> it's a possibility that it is rev. when you have one incident like that, what we normally do as police officers is we look at it we evaluate it and we try to find out what happened and why it happened and we put in procedures that see that it doesn't happen again a second time. apparently those procedures were ignored. apparently those procedures weren't done, and now here we're face with the same thing again with freddie gray. >> now, we have midwin several witness accounts from the moment that gray was arrested. listen to this. >> i heard this boy hollering and screaming. get off of me. get off of me. you're hurting my neck. get your knee out of my back. >> they had him folded up like he was a c

a man named dondy johnson was arrested for public urination.he, too, died of a spinal injury after being in the back of one of the vans. it was proven in court that the police had responsibility. they won a $2 million judgment. it got broken down to the $200,000 limit. do you see this case going in that direction? >> i think case clearly will go down that path in terms of civil liability and the $200,000 cap because the police have already acknowledged and recognized that he should have had a seatbelt on in the van and that he also asked for medical help. that's different because in this case he was asking for medical help about asthma, which is obviously not ended up having him die. there will be civil liability. the bigger question is what are they going to do. there is a historical distrust between the police in baltimore and the community in baltimore and that has to be addressed at some point. >> former attorney general doug gansler, we appreciate your time discussing the case. >>> we are going to check in with surae chinn. she is in annap