lawrence bell, how typical is this?hat are you most concerned about right now as the former president of the baltimore city council? >> first of all i want to say it is good to be here and i appreciate the opportunity to talk about the subject. unfortunately, baltimore has had a long history of these kinds of incidents going on. i think what is changed in baltimore as well as around the country is that we live in an age where there is technology and people have smart phones with cameras. years ago, over 20 years ago, i was one of the people that led the struggle to try to get civilian review, strong civilian review here in a city of baltimore. that is something that has been resisted for many, many years. i think it is because there is been a camaraderie within the police department, kind of a stop snitching mentality among police. amy: misconduct settlements involving baltimore police officers have cost the city more than $6 million since 2011. one victim, barbara floyd, told the baltimore sun that a detective ground h

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 democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we're on the road at the hague in the netherlands. but first, to maryland. where the governor larry hogan has deployed the national guard in baltimore amid an uprising over the death of freddie gray. gray died a week after a police encounter which his family said left his spine 80% severed at the neck. police stopped him because he made eye contact with a lieutenant, then ran away. two weeks of peaceful protest over gray's death erupted into vi

that's not enough according to lawrence bell, himself a former elected official.t's less about the color of the officer it's about the culture. >> it's kind of an old boy network. it's very military to a large extent. and there are people who have been recruited, many of whom have a spirit of service but then you have people who have a spirit of adventurism. and they're people recruited from outside the city who see african american men and see the enemy. >> i know we need to make changes. we need to change the culture in this organization. and i am going to make it happen. >> reporter: some here in baltimore trace the uneasy relations back 50 years to the civil rights movement and subsequent riots. or, to the late '90's when violent crime was alarmingly high, and then-mayor martin o'malley instituted a zero tolerance crime policy. >> what you do is you go around and arrest people for petty crimes. the idea is you can stop major crimes by enforcing petty crimes. but what happened is we had just an epidemic of arrests. >> reporter: violent crime dropped dramaticall

lawrence. >>> today, boston will mark the second anniversary of the 2013 marathon bombing. a citywide silence will be held at 2:39 p.m. church bells will ring throughout the city. boston's mayor has declared april 15th one boston day. a new tradition to honor the city's resill yeps. he's asked people engage in random acts of kindness. three people were killed and more than 260 others were hurt during those bombings. >>> the jury is now in place for the trial of the man accused of killing a dozen people at a movie theater in colorado. james holmes is accused in the 2012 shooting that also left 70 people hurt. one of the selected jurors was a survivor of the columbine high school shooting back in 1999. he was friends with the two teenage shooters who killed 18 people in the eighth grade. the jury selection was one of the largest and most complicated in u.s. history. 9,000 prospective jurors were summoned to court and hundreds were asked back for one-on-one questioning. opening arguments will start on april 27th. >>> a police officer in arizona will not face charges for hitting a suspect with his patrol car. take a look at this dash