nbc's ron mott has the latest. >> reporter: a violent chaotic end last night to what had been largely peaceful yet vocal protests throughout the day in baltimore. business were vandalized, police cars damaged and at least six police officers slightly injured in clashes. when it was over, at least 34 arrests, 1,200 police deployed in all, some in riot gear to restore calm. >> the vast majority of residents out here did a good job. the vast majority of people came out and voiced their opinion and voiced with a they wanted to do. just a small number of people who felt they had to turn this into an ugly event. >> reporter: today storefront windows were boarded up as friends and family of 25-year-old freddie gray gathered for his wake one week after he died in police custody from a spinal cord injury. last night, joined by the mayor, his sister called for order. >> y'all please, please stop the violence. freddie gray would not want this. freddie's father and mother does not want no violence. violence does not get no justice. >> reporter: officials say one of yesterday's demonstrations turn

nbc's ron mott has the latest. a violent end last night to what had been peaceful protests throughout the day in baltimore. bu were vandalized police cars damaged and six police officers injured in clashes. it was over at least 34 arrests, 1200 police deployed in all, some in riot gear to restore calm. >> the vast majority of resident out here job job. they voized thei voiced what they wan ju a small number of people who felt they tur this into an ugly event. >> today store front windows are boarded up as friends and family gathered for the wake of freddie gray. last night joined by the mayor, his sister called for order. >> y'all please please stop the violence. freddie gray would not want this. fr father and mother does not want no violence. violence does not get no justice. >> officials say one of yesterday's demonstrations turned tee outside cam den yards, home of baseball's oriels. fans were told to stay inside the ballpark until it was safe to leave. this afternoon in maryland capital, a small rally in suppor

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i want to go to ron mott in boston for us. and ron, we're beginning to hear from the survivors -- the victims, what are you hearing from where you are? >> as you heard her talk about closure and for some victims, this trial was a bit part of that closure. for others they want to know -- they wanted no part of this trial or recounting the errors they lived through, those who survived two years ago. and so i spoke this morning with one victim who was just a few feet from dzokhar tsarnaev on that day in april two years ago and had shrapnel tear through her right leg and she was able to save her right leg but her fiance lost part of his right leg and his brother lost part of his right leg and they didn't want anything to do with coming to the trial. for some it was cathartic and listening to the evident and watching his demeanor and for others they wanted no part of the pain. and spoke to one victim leaving court who lost part of her leg and she said it was very personal for her to come down. she not interested in speaking to the m

>> ron mott thank you. talk more about what's next in the boston bombing trial another major trial developing knissthis hour. massachusetts, kendal coffey with me. a pleasure to see you. >> thanks jose. >>> put on your former prosecutor hat. what is the biggest concern? >> well the biggest concern for the prosecution in the tsarnaev case this case it's not overdoing it. don't burn out this jury and i think an hour is plenty of time not too much time to just recapitulate, summarize, present what the jury has already seen. one of the most overwhelming powerful prosecution cases in any court in this country. >> yeah. and the defense is really had a very limited defense, because they've essentially recognized that he did it. it's been a very limited defense. >> very limited. typically in a criminal defense case the cross-examination of prosecution witnesses one of the biggest parts has been non-existent here. just four witnesses. this is a less is more defense strategy all the way and you can expect to see that

. >> joining me tonight, ron mott. ron, reaction to this. what you're hearing on the ground in boston tonight. >> reporter: hey there, ed. good day to you. i think this verdict shocked a lot of people in that many people on the ground thought this jury was headed for deadlock that this was going to be a mistrial because of the length of the deliberations. but this jury said they wanted to take this very carefully. they took this duty very seriously. and in the end, they all said they are comfortable with the decisions they reached to find him guilty on first-degree murder. he will be housed in a prison about a mile and a half from gillette stadium in foxborough where aaron hernandez earned all that acclaim and all that money in the nfl. he is going to spend the rest of his life presumably, in that facility. i can tell you as a football fan, a lot of people scratching their heads over how far he fell and how quickly he fell. as you know ed better than most of us pursuing a career in the nfl, it's a hard job to get, and it's really hard to be

joining me now from boston is nbc's ron mott. n, this is the beginning of the end of the first phase of this trial. and as we've been reporting as you've been reporting since day one, they conceded his guilt in their opening arguments. >> reporter: good day to you. it was a big day here at the federal courthouse in south boston. the government is making its closing arguments to this jury started about 45 minutes or so ago. we think they'll wrap up in the next 15 to 20 minutes and the government lawyer opened it by saying that dzhokhar tsarnaev and his brother wanted to punish their country and their people for what they say america has done to their people meaning muslims. he said in specific reference to dzhokhar tsarnaev he placed his pressure cooker bomb in the book bag behind children that he could clearly see one was martin richard standing on a barricade watching runners go towards the funnish line. he said that bomb there because he wanted to make a memorable scene that would follow after that explosion. he says he calmly w

ron mott is in boston. ron, good morning. >> reporter: this is just a small fraction of the families affected by that disastrous week two years ago in boston. we had four people who died, three at the marathon, the fourth was m.i.t. officer sean collier. but you had more than 260 people injured in that blast, many of them severely. 17 of them who lost lims. one of those who lost limbs was celeste corcoran. she talked about the pain being so awful for her she felt like she wanted to die and like a light switch went on that she suddenly wanted to live and fight through that. she had very dramatic testimony yesterday. so the guidance we're getting today, jose, is that we're expecting to hear from the family of officer sean collier, who was executed in his patrol car near the campus of m.i.t. in cambridge. we're expecting that to dominate most of the testimony we hear today. we also think we're going to hear from family members and friends, perhaps, of lindsay liu, who was also killed at the marathon itself. sol

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here's ron mott. >> reporter: spring has sprung meaning the boys of summer are ready to play ball.ast is any prediction don't expect the celebrity first pitches to hit the mark. >> just a bit outside. >> reporter: for the first time since 1994, no derek jeter in yankee pinstripes but look who it is. a-rod is back after his year-long suspension a few months shy of 40. >> he's going to get less attention than anyone thinks. the less attention, the better. >> reporter: much is new about the upcoming season. rob is the new big cheese replacing buck as commissioner. he told chuck todd this morning on "meet the press," pete rose deserves a hearing following his lifetime ban from gambling. the reds is betting its nursery will keep parents showing up. wrigley field added an electronic score board. there's even new fare in the food lineup. move over cracker jacks and peanuts, all you can eat seats in 18 parks. the triple triple in philly nine hamburgerpaddies, 2200 catries. a chocolate donut with frozen yogurt. while it may make fans slower to root for the home team the action is getting sp

nbc's ron mott is outside the courtroom in fall river, massachusetts right now. ron, what's the latest? >> reporter: peter, good afternoon. the sentencing was not dramatic. we knew with a first-degree murder conviction, he was headed to prison for life without the possibility of parole. the verdict was surprising in that it took the jury a course of seven days to come back with this verdict. a lot of people began to suspect this was perhaps going to begin with a hung jury. after seven days they started to wonder if the jury was struggling with the verdict itself. we're waiting to hear official think from one or maybe several jurors about how the deliberations unfolded. what i suspect, peter, if they do talk, we may hear that they all went home yesterday having decided to vote murder one, and then sleep on it to make sure that was their decision and they were clear and comfortable making that decision because clearly they are now sending a 25-year-old man to prison for life. this is not the end selfaaron hernandez' legal trouble. as you know he stands accused of ki

nbc's ron mott has been covering this trial from day one for us. near the courthouse in downtown boston. ron, where do we stand today? >> reporter: as you mentioned, the prosecution finished their closing arguments and now the defense has wrapped their closing arguments. and the defense is back up for a rebuttal rebuttal. and as you mentioned there, the defense has said from day one, that dzokhar tsarnaev was involved in this and you'll see it. judy clark, the lead defense attorney said there is no dispute about who, what where and when but there are significant differences between dzokhar and tamerlan the older brother masterminded all of this. they have receipts of him buying bomb making components and a box that had hammer lan's fingerprints on it and not dzokhar and the government cherry picked information they took off of dzokhar's computer and tweets and things of that sort. they said they didn't see the totality of his activity online which is what they say a lot of teenagers do surfing the web and searching things such as cars and things of

back to you. >> ron mott thank you very much for that report.ies on tuesday over police video, lack thereof and the use of oh force against suspects. from a deadly shooting of unarmed walter scott in south carolina to the shooting death of eric harris in oklahoma by a 73-year-old reserve deputy who mistook his gun for a taser. then there was the beating of a california man by sheriff's deputies after he allegedly stole a horse. just today thu video showing an arizona cop using his car to ram an armed suspect who allegedly went on a spree. he's seen firing at least one shot into the air with a stolen gun. our next guest is a frep sick psychologist and takes us inside the mind of a cop on the beat. he says it's a miracle we don't see more of these incidents. welcome. i want to start with that. why aren't we seeing more of this happen. >> within own level the screening process that officers undergo may be working to some degree. we are not getting a host of unstable impulsive individuals in the field. on the other hand, with the advent of technolog

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nbc's ron mott is in baltimore. we know that there are national guard troops on the ground. some of them not far from where you are, but this american criticism of the mayor for not calling thor those troops sooner and we have yet to hear from the your this morning, right? >> we heard from the mayor, governor, a lot of city us a shuffles trying to reassure the public they're doing everything possible to prevent a repeat of what happened last night if police admit that they were, as they said, out flanked and out th thatmaneuvered by what they're calling criminals and thugs, not protesters. a very different approach today going forward. we'll see if it works. a lot of worry, there's a lot of grievance still. this goes well beyond freddie gray, the man who was -- died in police custody last week. and there's a sense of people here feeling as if they've been left out, a history of police brutality here allegedly. a lot of things coming to the surface. again, city officials are saying they're going to do everything possible to prevent a repeat of last night. dozens of people arr

nbc's ron mott takes us inside the courtroom. >>> what say you, madam foreperson?> reporter: after a two-month trial and seven days of deliberations, a dramatic end to the future of one of the nfl's most promising stars, aaron hernandez. >> guilty of murder in the first degree. >> reporter: audible gasps, hernandez appearing to say "wrong" while staring at the jury. >> so say all members of the jury? >> yes. >> reporter: his mother and fiancee wiped away tears, as did the family of the man he murdered. 27-year-old odin lloyd, a friend and semi pro football player found shot six times in a field a half mile from hernandez's million massachusetts home. >> i forgive the hands of the people who had a hand in my son's murder. either before or after. and i pray and hope that someday everyone out there will forgive them also. >> reporter: the case against him was largely circumstantial. the murder weapon never recovered, a clear motive never established by the state. prosecutors had surveillance video that appeared to show hernandez holding a gun the night lloyd was kille

ron mott has their report. >> reporter: the parents of richard martin called for an end to the anguish and an end to the pursuit of death for dzhokhar tsarnaev. the defendant murdered our 8-year-old son, bill and denise wrote in the boston globe. maimed our 7-year-old daughter and stole part of our soul. we understand all it too well the heinousness and brew at that time -- brutality of the crime committed. we were there. we saw replicated bombs and even the clothes our son wore his last day alive. we know the government has its reasons for seeking the death penalty. but the pursuit of that punishment could bring years of appeals and pro long reliving the most difficult day of our lives. the prosecutor responded, i care deep lay about their views and the views of the other victims and survivors, as the case moves forward, we will do all we can to protect and vind case those injured and those who passed away. opinions are split between the community at large about whether tsarnaev should die for his crimes. but the family is convinced they have to live their life based on his terms not

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ron mott there in boston where he's been covering the trial. ron, what can you tell us at this hour? >> reporter: hey, there, ari. can you see the door behind us at the federal courthouse. we are anticipating some of the victims of this bombing may come through the doors here. the media is assembled off camera waiting to get reaction to them. i spoke to one of the victims who is not downtown earlier today and she was surprised the jury did not come bac

ron mott has been covering the trial. ron, do i have that correctly, that she was the -- is the sister of aaron hernandez' fiancee? >> yeah that's correct. that's why this is a tragedy for both families. you had odin lloyd, who was friendly with jenkins, the girlfriend's sister. how how they became friends. this is a tragedy for both families. you saw ursula ward was able to smile today. i'm sure she's going through a lot of emotions. she 13450i8d when she came out to address the media, and of course shed some tears. she has shed a lot of tears, as has the entire lloyd family. when this verdict came down, it was a bit surprising in that because the jury deliberate rated, a lot of people who were watching the details mostly thought this was going to be headed edward a mistrial that the jury was not going to be able to agree. aaron hernandez at one point actually sat down which is not necessarily customary. you can see him turn around and look at his mom and jenkins, they were both in tears. they were mouthing to each other.

this morning dramatic and emotional testimony, ron mott joins me now from boston. g inside because i know the judge and jury returned to the courtroom, the prosecution has been calling victims to come forth and testify, explain what the victims have been saying. >> well they've been talking about the horrific injuries they sustained on that april day, april 15th 2013 and how it changed their life. so here you have victims coming back sitting feet just -- a few feet away from dzhokhar tsarnaev, very very emotional, one witness in particular spent a lot of time crying on the stand recounting the moments that changed her life. before all of this happened, the government's attorney got up and essentially said dzhokhar tsarnaev wanted to send a message and be america's worst nightmare and he took part fully and actively in the plot to kill at the boston marathon two years ago. and the defense when they get their turn to give mitigating factors to this next week we believe, they will argue that tamerlan tsarnaev was the one who caused all this. we'll see how it goes next

nbc's ron mott covering the trial joins me now from boston. arnaev captured making a vulgar courtroom in a courtroom cell. this is a graphic image. the prosecution introduced it as an exhibit. what are folks saying about it now they are seeing this image for the first time? >> some folks have been really following this case closely knew about this as early as about december and winter of 2013 as seven or eight months after the boston marathon bombing because it was leaked to the "boston globe." the word of this video has been out for folks closely watching it. but to see it will jar in people and folks in the courtroom yesterday when they showed the still image of taken from that holding cell back here at the courthouse of dzhokhar tsarnaev looking at the camera and putting up his middle finger. it's going to em bodden people who believe he should pay for his crimes to think that that's the result they want this jury to come to when this case is all said and done. including some victims who don't want him sentenced to death. there's a wide divi

nbc's ron mott. good morning. walk us through on what we can expect today and the days ahead. >> reporter: good morning to you. in a lot of ways this is the start of the defense's case here. dzhokhar tsarnaev over the next two, three, four weeks we'll learn a lot about the 21-year-old, his upbringing, his parents, his family his brother killed in the shoot-out, we'll hear about that from the defense counsel trying to spare his life. from the government's standpoint, we'll hear negative things about this young man, why the government wants to continue to pursue the death penalty, as you heard from pete williams in the reporting last week parents of martin richard, the 8-year-old boy who was killed near the finish line two years ago, they want the government to take the death penalty off the table, negotiate a deal with tsarnaev that would put him in prison for the rest of his life with no possibility of parole and wave his right to appeal. choices before this jury looks simple when you put it into these terms, two

nbc's ron mott is live outside the prison in south walpole, massachusetts. porter: jose, good morning to you. it's a far cry from here just a mile and a half where that stadium is. aaron hernandez lived a much different life than the one he's about to live at this prison. we understand he may be here for a short period of time before he's transferred to another what they call supermax prison in shirley, massachusetts, in the northwest suburbs of boston about 40 miles or so outside of boston. it's a high tech facility built in the late '90s, a lot of cameras and things of that sort. over the next couple months we expect he's going to be shuttling from a prison to a courthouse in boston to hear murder charges, double murder charges there. this is stemming from a drive-by shooting in the south end of boston in the summer of 2012, the year before odin lloyd was killed. that's the conviction that sent him here yesterday. so aaron hernandez has a lot of court hearings in his future let's just say. jose? >> and the jury spoke to the media after finding hernandez gui

. >> nbc's ron mott joins us live now from the federal courthouse in boston. so, ron, let's start off with explaining how this process will work including a decision that will be in the hands of his defense attorneys as to when they will present their opening statements and arguments here. >> right. good morning, tamron. making their opening statements in this penalty phase, the jury spent a good hour maybe a little bit more than that hearing from the judge about this particular phase and how it plays out. essentially, you've got these 17 counts that he was found guilty on that carry the possibility of the death penalty, and those are the 17 counts that this jury will deliberate at the end of this peblt phase about whether they can unanimously agree, all 12 of them, he deserves death on any one of those 17 counts or if they can't agree, he will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. you cannot necessarily base your decision on emotion. there will be victim impact statements throughout this process. he says you cannot base your d

ron mott is in boston with all of the details. there, good afternoon to you. there's a split of opinions and viewpoints on the death penalties here and more people are in favor of giving dzhokhar tsarnaev a life sentence without parole than they are in favor of the death penalty. the parents of martin richard, the 8-year-old killed two years ago, they wrote an op-ed in the boston globe where they are asking the government to take the death penalty off the table, negotiate with the defense team perhaps life in prison without parole and waive his right to appeal. it does not appear the government is going to do that. carmen ortiz says she is sensitive to their viewpoint but they want to make sure they represent the viewpoints from the entire victims two years ago. this was a powerful day of testimony. victims and victim family members came back to the courtroom to talk about how this bombing affected their lives. some of the most powerful testimony from the brother and father of crystal campbell she of course was one of the three pe

nbc's ron mott has been chasing coyotes as it were. >> good morning, peter.e wild kingdom has come to town. imagine seeing a coyote wandering by here. now the quest is on to find the animals and the issue to stay a step or two ahead of the hunters. as wily as wilye. coyote is he has never been able to outrun the road runner. police are looking for better luck nabbing this and other coyotes around town with the sighting along manhattan and beyond. around the country and places like chicago, coyotes are on the move. >> coyotes are expanding in the last 150 years. in new york state, new york city is on the edge of the population. >> reporter: normally timid, some coyotes are bold. one dashed through an apartment complex in broad daylight. another hit up a bar in queens eluding capture on the roof. and residents, especially dog owners, are keeping a watchful eye. >> you have to be cautious of what is going on around you. another thing to add to the list. >> a coyote. is that scary? yeah. it is scary. >> reporter: experts say coyotes rarely pose a danger to humans

ron mott is in boston for us. i understand a number of top state law enforcement officials and commanders of watertown police department will be in court today. >> reporter: yeah hey there, tamron good morning. a busy day at the federal courthouse in south boston. a lot of law enforcement officials here inside the courtroom today to hear these verdicts being read. perhaps if we get them today. there was not much defense in this case. what's happening now is the judge is going through the instructions. after the instructions, there will be closing arguments. so the prosecution goes first, about an hour we are told and then the defense will come up. we don't expect the defense will go long at all. if the government has rebuttal they will go at that time. and then we are probably getting a lunch break, perhaps the jury will then get instructions this afternoon and then take the case. the question folks are asking is not so much whether there will be guilty verdicts as we mentioned all along, the defense said that dzh

another couple weeks, jose. >> ron mott in boston. good to see you. >>> now to baltimore where a fifth straight day of protests are expect after the death of a man in police custody. >> no justice, no peace! >> on wednesday, more than 100 people peacefully marched to police headquarters to speak out against the death of 25-year-old freddie gray who died of a severe spinal injury. adam reese has been following the protest from baltimore. adam, i understand there are calls for more independent investigations in this case? >> that's right, jose. good morning. they just don't trust the police here to police themselves despite the justice department inquiry and a local inquiry. they want an independent investigation. about 100 protesters last night made their way tow the western district police headquarters. fourth night in a row of protests. generally peaceful. at one point there was a tense standoff at the gates with the police, some bottles were thrown but the police generally restrained themselves. leaders of the protest calling for th

ron mott is with us this morning. ron, good morning.nse there as another day passes with no verdict? >> right, hi there, good day from -- excuse me good day from massachusetts here. this is day seven as you mentioned. this jury now 35 plus hours and counting so a lot of eyebrows are up wondering what in the world is going on in this jury room. i've been following people commenting about this case on social media. some of the experts, the lawyers in the area talking about this case. generally two camps here. the first is that the jury has deliberated so long that they'll reach an impasse at some point. that's what people are thinking that this is headed towards a hung jury. what throws water on that a little bit is that the jury -- even though they came back to the judge with seven questions, none involved the moefrs serious charge, which is murder. the other school of thought is that this jury is in general agreement on murder guilty on murder and that the struggle is whether this is first degree murder or second degree murder. both of

ron mott joins me live from outside the federal courthouse in boston. ron, what's been said in the closing arguments so far before this recess? >> reporter: thomas as you mentioned, it was a graphic close by the government here to remind these jurors that this is a murder case a multiple murder case. in between making the arguments, the attorney for the government showed video of bodies there on boil ston street to remind them three people lost lives and dozens and dozens injured and went on to talk about the m.i.t. officer who was ambushed. one of the things he also mentioned after callously putting his book bag containing that pressure cooker bomb behind two children at least two children he could see, the martin richards and his sister he then went to the grocery store to buy milk. he says that he and his brother tamerlan basically took a couple of days off and watched news conference and decided to spring into action once they realized their names and faces were all over the air. they planned to take the rest of the bombs to new york city. they never

joining me is nbc correspondent ron mott. was this expected at this point in the sentencing phase?s was a three to four-day presentation. we knew at the beginning of the week that the government would make quick work of its presentation here in the penalty phase. after all, if they were going to parade all the people who were hurt in the boston marathon bombing, this could go on for weeks. the government made its point in the past three days what they consider theal straighting factors that -- aggravating factors that they hope the jury will find, jerry jerry guilt dzhokhar tsarnaev guilty and sentence him to death. some saying the facts of the case weren't in question. it was his brother, the why, why he would take part in this the brother, tamerlan tsarnaev, is very much going to be on trial starting monday. we expect that the defense will probably take two weeks or so before this is said and done and the jury will going g back to deliberate. the choices are clear. life in prison without parole or the death sentence. >> ron motd from boston thunk. >>> we're also following breakin

ron mott has the latest on the guilty verdict in the boston marathon bombing. >> reporter: no real surprise in this verdict. dzhokhar tsarnaev convicted on 30 counts all guilty. the real surprise if there was any surprise the fact the jury deliberated a second day. i spoke to one of the victims of that bombing what waso was clearly surprised the jury did not come back yesterday. the defense case begins in earnest when we begin the penalty phase. the same 12 men and women who found him guilty on 30 counts will now stand in judgment about whether he should spend the rest of his life in federal prison or go to the death penalty. of course, here in the commonwealth in massachusetts, capital punishment is not available in the state court system. obviously it is in the federal court system. there is widespread opposition here. this particular panel is what the federal government considers a death qualified panel. they were open to the possibility of finding someone guilty on the charges dzhokhar tsarnaev faced and then say he should pay with his life for his involvement in these crimes. we believ

ron mott has been following the case. what's the preview of the arguments today?ysical evidence presented over a month's worth of testimony showing dzhokhar tsarnaev on surveillance video putting a backpack