couldn't have intervened before the shooting when ramos has made so many threats through the year jody fleischerth us ts morning. jody you said you talked to att localney who said he lived in fear of ramos for years. but maryland law left authorities powerful in this case. >> one of the things and he really wants to push to get this law changed in the coming session, the law defines electronic communication as being sent from someone to someone, he felt like if you post a threat onluine, that leaves a gap as to whether something mighte threatening, en you post something on twitter, you're not posting it fr somebody to s for all the public to see. >> so that's a balance between wh is free speech or threaua >> nobody ay says this is a threat. it's kind ofbjtive. it's kind of when you look at obscenity, you know i when you see it. legislators need to take alo ha at the law and define it as to whether the victim feels threatened or whether certain language is ed, not all speech is protected speech, hate speech is not protected speech, threateningpeech is not protected speech, you just have to figure