gray and he thinks mr. gray was trying to harm himself. we can't respond to it was there's so many different stories at play right now. we have to get to the sfakts right now and we don't have the facts. >> as you're aware, what we have are reports coming out citing sources. they're obviously the source of some kind of leaking. that's all we have. there's one other thing i want to ask you about before i ask you about the leaks overall. that is this. reports of gray's health leading up to the arrest. you've seen these as well. they're saying there was a preexisting condition, some kind of an injury that he might have had, a final injury that might have been responsible for this that predated this incident all together. do you know anything about those? >> at this point we have absolutely no indication no suggestion that mr. gray, freddie gray jr. had any preexisting final injuries whatsoever. nothing that we have. we haven't spoken to one person. we haven't seen any document suggesting that freddie gray jr. had any preexisting spinal injuri

gray. that's a 25-year-old black man who died days after being arrested by white police officers. he had been in a coma. gray's family says police severed his spine. we're showing you right now live pictures of the protests in baltimore at 7:00 eastern. these protesters as we said thousands at this hour calling for an end to police brutality. they're also holding signs that read "black lives matter." the crowds at this moment making their way to the site where gray was originally taken into custody. at that time police dragged him into a van. he was screaming in pain. let me play that for you. >> ah. [ bleep ]. ah! >> the outrage has been building ever since this video of gray's arrest was made public and tonight, we can report that the justice department has now launched a civil rights investigation into gray's death. miguel marquez begins our coverage in baltimore. he's with the protesters tonight. miguel what are you seeing right now? >> very much with the protesters. these young men are

he could not see gray. gray's family doesn't believe it. they strongly deny the claim that gray tried to injury himself. they said we disagree with any implication that freddie gray se vrk vered his own spinal cord. mr. gray was arrested without force or incident. they are protesting that. they with hearing indirectly from the baltimore police officers under investigation. someone close to one of the officers involved in the arrest sat down with don lemon. >> what did he say happened? >> he believes that whatever happened to mr. gray happened before he was transported. >> according to your loved one, what took so long to get medical help? >> they don't know. they have not discussed that. we didn't ask what took so long. i think the officers that chased him and handcuffed him and had him on the ground and he said he was hurting, i think they should know that he needed medical attention. shouldn't that be their call to make? >> do you think the department is racist? >> that's a fair question. are there some bad apples? yes. >> interesting. th

gray. these protests all coming as people want answers. we are getting new information and new reports about what might have happened to freddie gray's spine. what caused that spinal injury while he was in police custody? we will get to the new report that is raising questions in a second. first, athena jones here with me in front of city hall in baltimore. athena the situation here in baltimore, at least in terms of the streets are concerned, seems to have stabilized. >> it does. another peaceful night. calmer the first night of the curfew. you mentioned the peaceful protests. a lot of people out on the streets. a lot of college students. people chanting and wearing shirts that say "black lives matter." peaceful is what it was. >> they were serving food. a long buffet line. >> there were arrests. 18 arrests. two juvenile. a big night of calm which is positive news. congress member elijah cummings was out on the streets last night at curfew in west baltimore with a bull horn. >> we are so e

gray. mr. gray is talking there.seat at that time. he said he needs a medic i think is the terminology. >> at which stop? i'm sorry? >> the third stop correct? >> yes, sir. >> so i have another gap between that time and where he gets to the last stop that we have to have information on. we've taken a look at the cc tv cameras. we believe we have the route, we have the van, we have the movement and the route that it's taken. so we're focusing on -- there is -- i cannot dpif you all of the information. there's an incident -- not incident. there's something that we have to look at that we have to have further investigation on. >> -- back to 1600 block, that part of the -- >> each and every leg of this transport is being investigated. so how long it took the distance the likely travel route, we're in the process of making sure that we can absolutely nail down the travel route. we're close to that. but beyond the route that was taken, we need to know from a to z what occurred at each and every stop, who was present at eac

gray. before we begin, i want to again, offer my most sincere condolences to mr. gray's family and to his friend. i also want to reiterate our commitment to moving as quickly as possible to determine exactly how his death occurred. earlier today the commissioner and i met with community leaders to discuss this case and i'm looking forward to speaking with mr. gray's family soon. one of the things that we discussed was the importance of ourests to continue to work together as we drm determine everything that transpired before mr. gray died. many of the people in that room have worked with us over the years to continue reforming our police department and they have worked tirelessly to help bridge the gap between the police and the community. this has not been easy work. it has been very difficult to overcome decades of mistrust, but together i believe we have made great stride forward. however, it's still very clear that we have much more work to do. i'll never stop believing that we are up t

also saying they're going to fight for freddie gray. all night, all day, we will fight for freddie gray, things like that. freddie gray has become a very very passionate cause and it's been palpable on the streets of baltimore for the fourth night runninging. >> all right, thank you very much brian todd. we'll go back to brian as he gets more. as you can hear more and more people are gathering as rush hour finishes up there, blocking streets on the streets of baltimore again. now, what's interesting is that today the baltimore police officer union is strongly defending all six officers. they've been suspended from the force. the union said today that officers had the right to arrest freddie gray. they say that they were doing exactly the right thing when gray took off running with a knife on april 12th. joe johns is out front in baltimore. >> something happened in that van, we just don't know what. >> reporter: what exactly happened to 25-year-old freddie gray remains a mystery tonight, even after an attorney for the baltimore city poli

this man could only hear gray and he could not see him, but he says gray was banging against the walls of the van, and he also believed gray was intentionally trying to injure himself. this account is a jarring contrast to another version he heard and it comes from one of the officers involved in the rest, and that person says he was injured before the arrest. >> he believes what happened to mr. gray believes it happened before he was transported. there was -- he was irate and cursing and yelling and kicking. and that's what was heard. >> what happened first? was he secured first? >> he was placed into the wagon with cuffs. he was not shackled. he was shackled later en route to where he was going, and because he was irate they had to stop and at that point she shackled him, and the officers that placed him in the wagon did not seat belt him. >> he was never seat belted? >> no, it's an unwritten and unspoken rule, that when somebody is irate in the paddy wagon, you don't reach over somebody irate, and they can bite you and spit in your face so you have to get in close proximity to someb

gray. they say he took off and they pursued him. gray was arrested one minute later a few blocks away on presbury street. you can hear him wailing in apparent pain on the cell phone video. then at 8:42 gray asks for an inhaler while being put into the police van. he can be seen standing on his own for just a moment. the van takes off making its way towards mount and baker streets. at 8:46 a.m. the driver reports that gray is acting in his view irate. as this video shows, the van pulls over. gray is placed in leg irons and put back into the van. the van takes off again and makes its way toward druid hill avenue and dolphin street. it's at this intersection at around 8:59 a.m. that the van driver asks another unit to check on his prisoner, referring to gray. but gray still doesn't receive any medical attention. instead the van is called on to pick up another prisoner at 1600 north avenue, that second prisoner is picked up. according to police separated from gray by a metal barrier. then at 9:

gray was meant to be brought. the protesters have now moved to -- actually moving to the intersection here and it's not clear why. there's several hundred protesters out here at this point, throughout the afternoon, though, the numbers were as big as 2,000 people out here in these protests. they have been mainly peaceful but moments of great, great anger as we saw earlier. not directed at us. i mean i think they're happy that the press is out here covering this something that they say we've neglected too long but they are extraordinarily unhappy with the police and the mayor and the city government here. what they want is all those six officers arrested on first-degree murder charges. they say they are going to take over the area around the city hall starting on thursday and they will stay there until there is justice. anderson? >> miguel gray's parents were there earlier. we said that his mom collapsed. how did the crowd react when they showed up? >> it was chaotic. but it was extraordinarily moving. the parents

gray. it's thursday april 30th and this is "now." >>> major marches are set to begin at any moment in baltimore. the demonstrations come just hours after baltimore mayor stephanie rawlings-blake sounded defiant at the national action network. >> i know we have problems. and i was determined to fix them. we will get justice for freddie gray, believe you me we will give you justice. we're going to work together because if with the nation watching, three black women at three different levels can't get justice and healing for this community, you tell me where we're going to get it in our country. >> shortly before that the baltimore police announced they have completed their initial investigation into the death of freddie gray who 25-year-old baltimore man suffered fatal injuries in police custody earlier this month. >> this does not mean that the investigation is over. if new evidence is found, we will follow it. if new direction is given by the state's attorney's we will obey it and follow th

freddie gray. in a stunning revelation police say now during their investigation they learned about about unreported stop by the van carrying gray. and cnn affiliate wjla-tv citing malt poor law enforcement sources briefed on the police findings as saying the investigation shows gray apparently broke his neck inside the police van, and a head injury matches a bullolt in the back of the van. these disclosures raising new questions about what really happened after the arrest? the prosecutor says her office will conduct its own probe, won't rely solely on what the police report says. baltimore's mayor says justice will be done. our correspondents analysts and guests are standing by with all the late-breaking developments. begin, though, in baltimore. ryan todd ryan ryan todd joins us with the latest. brian todd? [ xhant [ chanting ] >> we're having trouble connecting with brian. >> reporter: wolf on the streets of baltimore, pulsating with probably the sixth or seventh consecutive day of protest march

not very far from where freddie gray was picked up.rom the western district chds why ma police van was headed. as you mentioned, this was just revealed today in the press conference that the police gave a short while ago in conjunction with turning over those findings to the state's attorney's office. this is a grocery store, owned by a korean family. we understand from a neighbor who knows the family that they don't speak english very well. and we also believe that we note the neighbor told us that this store was looted on monday night, which is when we believe the cameras, you can see the security cameras outside of that store. those wires have been cut. but we believe, of course, they were working, and that's how the police were able to get this video. but of course this is a new, this is a new piece of information. it doesn't lead us closer to knowing exactly what happened inside that van, but it's very interesting to learn there is a second stop. let me quickly go with you through what we knew before. we knew as of last week that

the idea that there was this prisoner in the back of the van with freddie gray who believes that gray was trying to injure himself. >> john, this impression he gets from riding six blocks, six blocks between where he was picked up, at the tail end of this ride, to the police station, and where he is taken to jail, this is the length of time they're together. and it's hard to know where he gets this impression that he was trying to harm himself. he can't see him. there's a metal divider between the two men. and we should also mention that this prisoner is still in jail, when he was interviewed by police investigators, according to this document, obtained by "the washington post." so there's a lot of added questions here, really, and it really just adds to the picture that, you know, what the state attorney's office will have to deal with here is a very complicated case. a lot of people made some judgments based on the few seconds of video that we've been showing, and certainly the public has reacted to. it's really not fair to make any conclusions based on just those few seconds of vid

the freddie gray arrest and the freddie gray killing which led to this.was the proximate cause of this arrest in baltimore. the arrest happened on april 12th. if you know anything about this story, you know mr. gray was arrested for a reason that's still rather murky. he was taken into custody by baltimore police. you see that footage here. he's limp as they bring him into the back of a police van. by the time he ended up getting out of that police van -- by the time that police van arrived at its destination at the police station he was unconscious. this happened on april 12th. freddie gray then went into a coma and he died on april 19th. his family says that when he died his spinal cord was nearly severed and they believe that whatever killed him happened to him after he was taken into custody either before he was put into that van or once he was in that van. now what has happened this evening is that for the first time some information has surfaced about what maybe the police investigation into freddie gray's death. an affidavit part of an application

gray. they detained him for an investigative stop. had he not had a knife or in a legal weapon on him, he would have been released. they know what role they played in the arrest of mr. gray. what we don't know and what we're hoping the investigation will tell us is what happened inside the back of the van. he was placed in the transport van. whether he was seatbelted in. something happened, we just know what it was. asked you think any of the six officers to meet it a crime? >> no. based on the information i know, no. nermeen: well, on wednesday, our next guest spoke with residents of the gilmor homes housing projects in west baltimore where freddie gray was arrested, including one woman who says she witnessed officers loading him into the back of a police van. in a minute, we'll be joined by eddie conway of the real news network. but first, this is a clip of his interview. >> i am eddie conway. >> i seen it. my kitchen faces the street. the paddy wagon was like this. they took the young ma

the lawyer for the gray family says it was freddie gray sr., the father.ed as a plaintiff in that case. she says it's the father. we're debunking the claims. >> one hanging question freddie gray yes or no checked the box in one of those legal documents, one of those pleadings that said car accident work related or something -- what did that mean? >> he did. he checked auto accidents, there's three boxes he checked. but he also wrote something underneath where you can't make it out but his sister's document she checked other and she wrote lead. but he also acknowledged that the injuries occurred when he was a minor. he listed the minor, the sister's form says the exact same thing. related to the lead paint case. >> conspiracy theory not relevant to this investigation in terms of what happened to his back. done. next one. the idea from "the washington post" guy in the van with him says he hurt himself. that's what i think. how much weight do you put on it? >> i can't speak to what peter herman reported. he's a fine reporter. i respect his work. i didn't get

gray. tell me the timeline of when he could have heard or allegedly heard what the post is reporting. >> the post reporting comes from the search warrant affidavit used by police to search a particular place. and the police officer who swore out that affidavit said the account of this prisoner was that freddie gray was banging his head or he heard freddie gray banging his head against the wall of the van. we have reported consistently in this case is that there is no evidence to support that. the medical evidence in this case which is both from the hospital because he spent a week in the hospital undergoing lots of medical procedures before he died and from the autopsy is that his injury was a single severe spinal injury resulting from a broken neck and then the partial severing of the spinal cord. there is no medical evidence according to our reporting and to the information that we have there is no evidence to support an individual who is banging his head against anything. we have reporte

gray wants answers. i want answers. we'll remain vigilant on the path to justice. >> the second night of a curfew led to no major disturbances and followed a massive demonstration earlier in the day. a new march is scheduled for 4:00 p.m. today. it wasn't just peep in baltimore city that took to the streets. people across the country marched in solidarity calling for justice. today the washington post reporting a sealed document not seen by msnbc news says a prisoner shared the van ride with mr. gray and heard him banging on the walls of the van saying he was intentionally trying to injury himself. the prisoner was separateaccept separated by gray with a metal peace. there's no evidence to support that prisoner in's claims. we want to get to it for the first time. msnbc is getting a look at what freddie gray was going to be charged with. joy, you have the charging documents. what are they? >> absolutely. essentially one of the questions people have been asking fundamentally about freddie gray is one, why was he stopped?

gray was in? >> if we can really assume that he was standing on his own, that would tell me that the spinal cord was not severely injured, that the severance was not very significant. of course his head was not restrained. and so the second -- the secondary damage could have happened in the van where the vertebrae was torn. and so the way this works is the cervical vertebrae will affect the upper limbs, the elbow, the arm, the muscles on the top. but if you have severe damage to the court, it will effect your entire body. so i think it is not clear that he was standing on his own. >> it is hard to tell i agree, from the image. >> but i do think it makes no sense that three vertebrae would be fractured in the van. i think he was probably running away from the police and they tackled him which is to be expected an the police trying to arrest him and presumably they fell and maybe there was a hyperextension of the neck or a hypo extension or movement laterally. >> you don't see how this could happen

gray? we are hopeful the justice department will search for the truth and get to the bottom of what happened to mr. gray. >> and back to the protests for a minute. they were largely peacefully yesterday, and is there anything the gray family wants to say to the protesters? >> they are grieving and tremendously upset, and their questions are more geared towards the police department and they want answers and they want to know what happened to their son and how did a healthy young man unlawfully come in contact with the police and then his spine be severed. those are the questions they want answered right now. >> thank you for being with me this morning. i appreciate it. >> thank you very much. >>> it's day two in the sentencing phase of convicted boston bomber tsarnaev. prosecutors are wanting the death penalty. jurors seeing images of tsarnaev flipping off the security camera in his cell after the attack. one woman telling jurors about the day she lost her legs saying quote, our whole world

nobody knows what happened to freddie gray that day except freddie gray and whoever it was that injured him. >> very powerful, very powerful words. you can hear now the sirens going off here in the city, a city that they're trying to keep under control this evening. a citywide curfew is in effect in baltimore after days of protests. and soon, we could learn more about the day freddie gray died, more on that investigation coming up. >>> baltimore doesn't really look like baltimore. we're living in a militarized state right now. >>> plus, meet a long time baltimore professor with perspective. his views may surprise you. that's coming up next on cnn. scott: appears buster's been busy. man: yeah, scott. i was just about to use the uh... scott: that's a bunch of ground-up paper, lad! scotts ez seed uses the finest seed, fertilizer, and natural mulch that holds water so you can grow grass anywhere! looking good, lad! man: thanks, scott. ez seed really works! so, how come haggis is so well behaved? scott: 'cause he's a scotty. man: oh. scott: get scotts ez seed. it's guaranteed. seed your lawn

grays. amy: a state of emergency has been declared in baltimore and the national guard has been called in after protests erupt after the funeral of 26-year-old -- 25-year-old freddie gray who died in police custody. he was arrested for running. 80% of his spine was dozens of severed. dozens of people have been arrested, 15 police officers were injured and several businesses have burned down. we will go to baltimore for the latest and speak to the reverend jesse jackson and former baltimore city council president lawrence bell. then to nobel peace prize laureate shirin ebadi here in the hague. for years, shirin ebadi has been of iran's most vocal critics. today she explains why she supports the iran nuclear deal despite being opposed to nuclear power. >> i do not agree with any of the nuclear energy programs. therefore, [indiscernible] but at the same time, a country that does have an atomic bomb cannot judge in this manner about other countries. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to

gray once mr. gray came into their custody. >> reporter: baltimore's mayor says authorities are concerned that giving out too much information might compromise the investigation. here's one video after the arrest was made. police say they stopped to restrain him because he was being combative. >> the police saying, we arrest him and we don't have the details on why is unacceptable. >> reporter: police said they arrested gray because they believed he was committing a crime. the tonight, new information on the background of one of the officers under suspension in the gray case. court documents show lieutenant brian rice faced allegations of domestic violence in 2008 and 2013. in the second case he was ordered not to contact, go to the home or workplace of the person who filed the complaint. but in both cases, protective orders were not authorized by the courts. neither rice's attorney nor the baltimore police responded to requests for comment. the head of the baltimore police union who knows rice sai

gray was arrested. they've promised to go back downtown and to cappedenmden yards so i think there will be great concern of carrying out a baseball game. >> amidst all this we're told the white house and department of justice under the control of the brand new attorney general loretta lynch is monitoring the situation, the white house, and the department of justice. no statement from either of them. let's go to athena jones, also in the streets of baltimore. athena what are you seeing, what are you witnessing? >> reporter: hi jake. where we are right now is on north monroe. this is the same street that the church was on. the church that held the funeral service for freddie gray today, less than a mile away. this is is a sad situation. we just witnessed someone being arrested here. those hand ties put on him. we flow at least one other arrest in this immediate vicinity. we also know about the seven police officers who were injured including one who is we're told unresponsive. i want to show you some thin

six officers involved in gray's arrest remain suspended. today, baltimore's mayor made this promise: >> if with the nation watching three black women at three different levels can't get justice and healing for this community, you tell me where we're going to get it in our country. >> pelley: mayor stephanie rawlings-blake was talking about herself u.s. attorney general loretta lynch, and the prosecutor baltimore's states attorney, marilyn mosby. all of this began more than two weeks ago when freddie gray ran away from two officers on patrol. they caught him and allegedly found an illegal switch blade. we asked chip reid to remind us of how a minor offense became a major controversy. >> reporter: on april 20, during the baltimore police department's first press conference on the death of freddie gray, commissioner anthony batts made a promise: >> we're being as transparent as wepossibly can. we will be open. we will answer questions. we will bring this information to the public. >> reporter: at that same press conference, deputy police commi

because we knew freddie gray. but we're all here because we know lots of freddie grays. amy: we will speak to reverend jesse jackson after headlines. not far from the upheavae, loretta lynch was sworn in as the nation's first african-american woman attorney general at a ceremony in washington, d.c. >> is a little girl from north carolina who used to tell her grandfather to f on the back of his mule so she could see way up high granddaddy, can grow up to become the chief law enforcement officer of the united states of america, we can do anything. amy: lynch released a statement on the situation in baltimore, vowing to -- "bring the full resources of the department of justice to bear in protecting those under threat, investigating wrongdoing, and securing an end to violence." the justice department is investigating freddie gray's death. the prime minister of nepal has warned the death toll from saturday's devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake could reach 10,000. the toll now stands at over 4,300 and is continuing to

the leaders and gray's family called for calm called for peace. today they buried freddie gray. there had been calls for people not to protest on this day that they have his funeral. same kind of calls that we've seen in other case like this. mr. gray's funeral began this morning. they buried him near schools, near a mall. when school let out today, this happened. local leaders say these clashes began when school let out and school kids flooded out onto the streets. whatever part of this may have been a peaceful protest they set cars on fire hurled things at police who responded with rubber bullets and hurling projectiles at protesters who threw them in the first place. among the 15 officers reported to be injured one was the unconscious, nonresponsive. two remain in the hospital tonight. the governor has declared a state of emergency and has activated the maryland national guard. the city curfew in baltimore will be in effect for a week starting tomorrow at 10:00 in the evening. the schools will be closed in baltimore tomorrow. and even as the looting continued until late tonig

family members remembered gray for his smile. community leaders promised to keep pushing to make sense out of gray's death and urged everyone to do so peacefully. >> freddie's death is not in vain. after this day, we going to keep on marching. after this day, we going to keep demanding justice. >> the white house is weighing in tonight on the protests in baltimore. president obama is pledging the government's help to respond to that violence. the president spoke with stephanie rawlings blake today and said that his administration would provide assistance when needed and asked governor hogan to practice restraint in respond to the protests. loretta lynch will be sent to baltimore at a later date. >>> and mayor stephanie rawlings-blake is speaking live right now. >> i think this speaks to the real heart and soul of our city that we are not going to allow our beautiful city to be destroyed. we will bring order from this chaos. we will bring those who seek to destroy us to justice and it will take all of us going above and beyond to

for another officer to check on gray. and then a fourth stop is made where an additional prisoner is picked up. >> baltimore police also announced today that more than 90 officers have been inj

gray was arrested and put into a van.he last time you see him alive or at least out of a coma and down the police headquarters. they are angry but peaceful so far. the police station has been barricaded. police helicopter are overhead and forces are down the street and there are dozens and dozens of police officers if not hundreds themselves that we have seen pouring into this area. it is a very very tense place this afternoon with people here upset with the way the city and the police have explained what happened or failed to explain what happened to freddie gray. >> it looks peaceful from the vantage point of the cameras that we have there. although it did look like someone was arrested when we just got back on the air. did you see that individual being arrested miguel? >> reporter: i could not see what was happening to that individual. people are still pouring into the area. it's going to be a long night it looks like for these protesters and police officer. >> what are they chanting? what's their main complaint? >> re

how did freddie gray die? what was the cause of death?nd there is no guarantee that an autopsy will present the answer to that question which means you may have to bring more experts. so i think a month, two months is far from out of the question. it is far better though i think to be late, to be slow than to be wrong. and i think if it takes a while it's going to take a while. but it really is important for prosecutors and police to get this one right. >> on another subject, you're friends with the mayor, today she came out and said basically that she got it wrong, that she shouldn't have called the young people who were being violent on the streets monday thugs. she regretted that. it's interesting she's now come forward and said that. >> i have been critical of the mayor in terms of those remarks. she is a very close friend of mine. but i was surprised she chose to use that word. she is very measured, she's a critical thinker. sheesz she's sensitive to the issues facing communities of color. what is also interesting to me is that peopl

and what happened to freddie gray. and what they want to see is justice for what happened to freddie gray. still, so many unanswered questions. there had been a big expectation among some people and i talked to one of the pastors who was in schools today, trying to tamp down young people's expectations for what's going to happen on friday. because a lot of the young people he was talking to were saying to him they were thinking charges might be brought on friday or at least some kind of resolution or answer would be given from authorities about what happened to freddie gray. the message, the pastor was getting out, the message the gray family attorney was trying to get out to a crowd here last night when we were on the air is that we're -- the public is not going to learn friday probably not going to learn anymore details about what happened to freddie gray and to try to tamp down expectations. so there's not high expectations and a lot of disappointment. i want to bring in our legal analyst, sunny hostin, who has work

gray's wake is sunday.eral is monday. >>> freddie gray is not the only person to come out of a police van seriousl

gray mr. gray and he wasn't responsible. >> this follows a controversial new report in "the washington post," which claims that same passenger told police he heard gray intentionally trying to injure himself. also today, police revealing they've learned about an additional stop that the police van made after freddie gray's arrest. >> the second stop has been revealed to us during the course of our investigation and was previously unknown to us. we discovered this new stop based on our thorough and comprehensive and ongoing review of all cctv cameras and privately owned cameras and in fact, this new stop has been -- was discovered from a privately owned camera. >> the police reports are not being made public. but a local washington, d.c. station, wjla, is citing anonymous law enforcement sources, who say gray's injury was caused inside the van, when he slammed into the back of the van. it also claims a bolt on the van matches an injury on gray's head. we've got team coverage across baltimore to

>> so this is about freddie gray? >> it's not just about freddie gray. let me finish. we haven't heard anything within the 15 days so this is the condition we're in right? so the same point. we're at a moment in this country where we're looking at policing practices and patterns all over this country. there's heightened tension everywhere. so i think when we see it here we also see remnants of ferguson, missouri. i've been on your show a couple of times in october and in august reporting around this. so we're seeing very similarities around how the mayor is covering here and baltimore as well as in ferguson. >> all right. dante, stand by a second. we're going to take a quick break. we've going to have the coverage of the governor's press conference coming up in just a few minutes, and our live coverage of the protests and the violence in baltimore continues after this. just because i'm away from my desk doesn't mean i'm not working. comcast business understands that. their wifi isn't just fast near the router. it's fast in the break room. fast in the conference room. f

gray. these questions need to be answered. >> right.f you heard suzanne malveaux's piece but there was a gentleman who was a witness who said that freddie gray said according to this witness, get off my neck get off my neck before he was put into the police van. i'm wondering have you heard anything along these lines, that there might have been an your to his neck before he got in the van? obviously he suffered a severe wound to his neck that ultimately killed him. >> what we have done is continued to ask for members of the public who have information. i think it's great that they're talking to you. they need to talk to the police department. the state attorney's office is doing its own independent investigation. we want to get -- we want to hear from as many people as possible so it is possible to piece together in the most accurate way possible what happened. we want to get to the bottom of it. >> one of the reasons there seems to be such frustration is the only thing we're hearing from authorities is nothing happened to freddie gray

this is not just about freddie gray. this is about a national problem.young woman named angela told me this is about police ignoring the cry for treating everyone equally. she said we want answers, and we want them now. there is a sense here that they're not getting answers. i know the process takes time, but they want answers from baltimore and they say nationwide they're seeing this happen. i did have an interesting conversation jake with a chief inspector of the philadelphia police here. joe sullivan. here's what he told me. he said protestors are citizens, not suspects. our job as police is to keep them safe while they exercise their first amendment rights. he is not worried about violence tonight. he said we have a history in this city of peaceful protest, that's what tonight is going to be. look around me people are voicing opinions but very peaceful and in terms of police presence they are very well equipped tonight to handle whatever happens, but thousands certainly expected, jake. [ applause ] [ cheers and applause ] e to severe crohn's disease.

the mysterious death of freddie gray.onder when gray may have been a target of a rough ride. a rough ride is when a driver of a police van inattentiontentionally makes sudden starts and stops. this isn't the first time the baltimore police department has faced accusations. >> of all the many questions that remain in the investigation into the fatal injuries suffered by fredry gray the most important remains, how was he so severely brutally fatally injured? >> what needs to be asked is what happened before the van or in the van, you know you can get rocked around pretty good if you're not tied or concealed in a certain kind of way. >> the police union says they've heard these complaints before. >> it's something people on the street tell us a lot that that happens. in my 16 years of representing police officers have i had anyone disciplined for that? no. >> to some gray's case seems similar to a case from a decade ago in baltimore. involving a arrest a police van and a broken neck. it started here at the at this intersecti

gray mr. gray. responsive. >> joining us tonight on "the ed show," jane miller investigative reporter for nbc affiliate wbal. thank you for your time tonight. what did you learn from the other prisoner? >> well, i think what we learned from the other prisoner is that what accounts in the search warrant affidavit reported by the washington post that becomes the headline you know that freddie gray may have injured himself and you got to kind of walk that back. the second prisoner, donte allen, can't see mr. gray. said to us he didn't even know he was in there. i think what's important is to understand that what we have reported, put all the pieces together prior to mr. allen picked up there was a stop on the van because the van driver suspected, it appears suspected nothing was wrong and called for other officers to come and check the prisoner. at that point, according to police commanders those officers should have called for a medic. they didn't. they then go one way and double back to pick up mr. a

this didn't start with freddie gray. if you look at the arrest record in baltimore, you can see it's been going on for a long time. in fact, the police department paid $5 million just a few months back to settle lawsuits in over 60 different cases where they were found to have violated the rights of individuals. so, it's a real frustration. it is unfortunate that the ugly part of it is showing its head and we're just calling on men throughout the community to come out, like i'm out, and like others are out tonight, go into the crowds talk to these young men, as a way that only a man can talk to another man, and to stand there and try to find a way to tell them that this is not the way to do it. if there's a better way, at the end of the day, if we don't get justice for freddie gray we would have failed. >> what do you think we're going to get here? are we going to get a report from the police that's going to tell us how a guy gets his spinal cord broken during police custody? i mean there can't be any good reason for tha

a prisoner shares a police transport van with freddie gray told investigators that he could hear gray banging against the wall of the vehicle and believed that he was intentionally trying to injure himself obtain i by "the washington post." your reaction? >> my reaction is that as attorneys, we don't have the luxury of speculating on bits and pieces of evidence and things that are reported third and fourth hand. we have unfortunate been fed pieces of information and those pieces of information are enough to create conversations, but not give answers. and so we are in the position where we cannot speculate on things that are rumor, we cannot speculate on things that may be couched as probable cause in the affidavit before a warrant. we need to see the evidence and when we see all the evidence and we have an opportunity to review it then we can come to some conclusions. but right now, it's speculation at this time this point. >> and according to the article, this document has been search warrant -- it's been an application for a search warrant and that search warrant is for the uniform

gray. that his decision to flee they say, was enough. >> they pursued mr. gray. they detained him for an investigative stop. had he not had a knife or illegal weapon on him, he would have been released after the proper paper work was done. however in this case he was in possession of a spring loaded knife which is in violation of maryland law. everyone goes back and forth there was no probably cause. in this insurancecidentincident you do not need probably cause to arrest. >> the officers' lawyer says they did not cause gray's fatal injury. new protests against excessive force are set for baltimore today. otherwise peaceful protests became briefly violent on wednesday as frustrated demonstrators pushed and shoved against police. correspondent miguel marquez is in baltimore with the latest. >> reporter: john this is western district police station. it is now ground zero for protesters as they look for answers in the death of freddie gray. his body was prepared to be released to the family. t

gray, but he said he heard gray banging on the walls. there are doubts about that. >> according to our sources, by the time that prisoner is loaded into that van, freddie gray was unresponsive. secondly, we have reported that there is no evidence medical evidence, that freddie gray suffered any injuries that would indicate that he injured himself by banging his head against the van wall door whatever you want to say. >> according to miller the police commission said a few days ago that the second prisoner said his ride was calm and quiet. >> it was a first in the league of major league baseball nature there was an empty camden yards. fans were banned were safety reason. the one bright spot in the o's topped the sox 8-2. >> we made quite a statement as a city. some good. some bad. now let's get on with taking the statements we made and create a positive. >> the game did have some light moments. the catcher signing imaginary autographs. this broke baseball's lowest attendance record set back in 1882. >>> senator bernie sanders are running

today they buried freddie gray. there have been calls for people not to protest on this day, the day of his funeral, same kind of calls we've seen in other stories like this. mr. gray's funeral began in the late morning. they buried him in baltimore. the church is near schools, near a large mall in northwest baltimore. when school let out today, this happened. local leaders on the ground today in baltimore say these clashes began when schools let out and school kids flooded onto the streets. whatever part of this might have been a peaceful protest, people also set cars on fire smashed a police cruiser looted stores hurled things at police who responded with rubber bulleting and hurling projectiles back at protesters. among the 15 officers injured, one was reported to be unconscious, nonresponsive. two officer we're told remain notice hospital tonight. the governor has declared a state of emergency and has activated the maryland national guard. the city curfew will be in effect for a week starting tomorrow at 10:00 i

gray on the way to the police station. he was loaded for the second time in a police van and we have the eye witness of the person being dragged to the van and he believed that his friend had already sustained the spinal injuries that would later take his life and we will hear from advocates of police who say otherwise. >> reporter: new video shows freddy gray minutes after his initial arrest. the last time he was seen publicly and alive. it shows gray not moving lying half in and out of the police van. >> he wasn't responding. he was down and his feet was like this and they picked him up and threw him up in the paddy wagon. >> this is a block from where freddy gray was arrested. he was arrested just around the corner and this is where they pulled him out of the van to shaqqal his feet and the was a woman across the street watching it. he looked unconscious to you? >> yes and i asked if they should get him a paramedic and they said to mind my business and i said it is my business. >> a lawyer said any injuries could not ha