amy: that is gene ryan, the police union president. dominique stevenson, this likening to a lynch mob. yesterday, you didn't get arrested. you went over the barrier. what is your reaction to the police union president? >> actually, if you look at what happened to freddie gray, he was tried, convicted, and executed. so i resent likening people who are simply protesting in responding to a situation that was extremely unjust in their community to lynch mob. as a person of african descent in understanding the history of lynching in this country, i find that statement offensive. i think people are very frustrated because this is not the first time that this situation has occurred in baltimore. i think people have spent years of seeing the situations occur. people have experienced police brutality on so many levels, whether it is witnessing the mistreatment of loved ones or committed to members or experiencing it firsthand. there were so many people in the community yesterday who are willing to come up and talk about their experiences with th

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neither rice's attorney nor the baltimore police responded to requests for comment. the head of the baltimore police union who knows rice said this -- >> i can't really comment on what happened in his past. what happened in his home life shouldn't play nor factor into what happened on the job. >> reporter: now, the head of that police union, gene ryan told us that police throughout this city are very concerned about possible retaliation for freddie gray's death. he says they are all thinking about the murders of those two new york city police officers following the ferguson and staten island cases, wolf? >> there's also new information about the suspended officers' meeting with investigators, right? >> reporter: that's right. baltimore police have just said that five of the six suspended officers in this case gave statements to investigators the very day that freddie gray was arrested. that was on april 12th. but they gave statements to them, not giving a lot of details about these statements. the second person who was with freddie gray in the police van in those crucial moments is a witness in a criminal

has no bearing on -- that is not related to us at all. >> it might surprise some to hear that the dc police union is not supporting a waiver for police body cam video. >> if there are special things we need to do in order to be able to produce the video fuzz out faces blur license plates. >> like you do with documents now. >> another reason for wanting to limit access to this video is to protect individuals privacy rights from other people who are just simply curious. bruce johnson reporting from northwest washington for wusa 9. >> but it turns out even the mayor may be softening her position on this one. she says she is now open to discussions for how to make the police body cam video available to the public. >> vile,vi el and a sexual pred store what montgomery -- predator. that is what montgomery judge said to the beer pong predator today. joey poindexter will likely spend the rest of his life in prison. we're joined live at the montgomery county courthouse with the sentence and the judge was not playing. >>reporter: absly leslie. poindexter ended up getting 150 years in prison. the state had

the baltimore police union is firmly backing the six police officers involved in the arrest of freddiee union officials say they have provided these statements five of six officers have provided these statements to investigators. the officers now suspended with pay committed no crime according to the union. gray died after suffering a spinal cord injury that police still cannot explain. baltimore police commissioner anthony batts says another investigator in the police van told investigators nothing happened on the way to jail. >> the second prisoner that was picked up is that he didn't see any harm done to freddie at all. what he has said is that he heard freddie thrashing about. the driver didn't drive erratically. >> the justice department civil rights investigators and the fbi are now gathering evidence for their own investigation. the federal probe would have to prove that the officers intended to deny gray his civil rights. and, alisyn that's a tough case to make as we saw in the shooting of michael brown last year. >> absolutely evan. thanks so much for that background. we want

the police van. the events leading to gray's death began when he saw police officers and took off running. the police unionfficers did not need probable cause to apprehend gray. his decision to flee was enough. >> they pursued mr. gray. they detained him for an investigative stop. had he not have a knife or illegal weapon on him, he would have been released after paper work was done. however, in this case he was in possession of a spring loaded knife which is in violation of maryland law and he was arrested. everyone keeps going back and forth there was no probable cause. in this incident you don't need probable cause to arrest. you need suspicious. >> the officers' lawyer says they did not cause gray's fatal injury. they don't know how it happened. new protests against excessive force are set for today in baltimore. peaceful protests became slightly more than that. wednesday, demonstrators pushed and shoved toward police. our national correspondent miguel marquez is in baltimore with the latest. >> reporter: john this is western district police station. it has become ground zero for protesters as they loo

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the d.c. police union is not supporting a waiver for police body cam video. >> if there's special things we need to do in order for them to produce the video, fuzz out faces, blur license tags, that type of stuff. >> like you do with documents now. >> that's what we need to do. >> a police department statement to wusa 9 today adds another reason for wanting to limit access to this video is to protect individuals privacy rights from other people who are just simply curious. this is bruce johnson reporting from northwest washington for wusa 9. >>> a montgomery county man convicted of sexual assaultingmen that he met at beer pong tournaments will spend 150 years behind bars. joey poxtindeer was sentenced today. in two trials earlier this year juries found him guilty of 12 counts of second and third degree sex offense. prosecutors call him a sexual predator unlike anything the county has ever seen. >> 150 years is a huge number. it's a sentence that will probably mean that mr. poindexter will die in jail. >> poindexter was convicted of sexual assaulting five men but prosecutors believe there are at

the police department are not helping any of this. and this is why you see so much protest. this is why you see so much angst. the officer, the attorney from the police union issued a statement and was talking about how the supreme court authorizes the police to chase an unprovoked suspect in a high crime area. that's not helpful. people are not getting the facts. they're not getting the information that they need as it relates to this case to find out exactly what happened and they don't want to hear information about the supreme court's case which by the way, only speaks to a detention and not specifically the probable cause to arrest because this is an arrest. go ahead. what about the injury? >> sure they do. they want to know about the injury. that takes me to the video tape mr. henderson. from the standpoint that the video tape is not conclusive about how freddie gray got this injury. and that he could have, and i'm not trying to give the police an alibi in any way, but a possibility he could have been injured on the bicycle with an accident because the chase took place. there's no video tapetape that has surfaced of the police actually hitting him. w

the streets, all understandable. and police officials we've talked to do understand the frustration. but a police union official told me not long ago, they are concerned about retaliation. not far from their minds as the assassination of those two new york city police officers last december in the wake of the ferguson case in the wake of the eric garner death on staten island a man who assassinated those two police officers drove up from this area where baltimore, this very much on the minds of baltimore police tonight. >> brian todd, thank you so much. when police are called on to investigate themselves there is an inevitable skepticism among many in the community about whether or not anyone can do that fairly. whether justice can be served in a situation like that. earlier today i spoke with gene ryan the president of the baltimore city fraternal order of police. we talked about the tensions between police and the community here and also the police account of what happened that day. where are you about to head right now? >> i'm going to what's called a suspension hearing for the officers involved. an

. >>> plus, the latest from baltimore where the police union is giving its account of the death of freddie gray. >> i don't want it to turn into a lynch mob. >> plus, "top chef's" tom clickio. >> it starts to raise the >> it starts to raise the awareness around this issue. >> and an incredible story about a congressman's tweet about his transgendered grandchild. >> she's always been melissa. the only thing that's ever changed is her pronoun and her name. >> "all in" starts right now. >>> president obama was in florida and went on office politically on the issue of climate change, and the location the president selected to go on office was no accident. he was in the florida everglades, in a state that is home to two republican presidential contenders, including the one that many consider to be the establishment front-runner, former governor jeb bush. it is also the state whose current republican governor, rick scott, according to the florida center for investigative reporting, banned people within his administration from using the terms "climate change" and "global warming." governor scott

i wouldn't have gone against the police union and rr formed pension. that he says. >> for those protesters and members of the african-american community say i don't feel like you are on our side. what do you say to them? >> this is a tense time and i understand your frustration and i even understand why they would say that but i would ask them to take a look at my record before ferguson we were working on issues around police brutality and reforming our police department before it was a national issue we have been having these conversations and moving to reform the police department. we put in addition training. what you see in baltimore because of the reform efforts that i have made is a reduction in the number of lawsuits against the baltimore city police department. it was the headline of our news department today. we have seen discourtesy complaints go down. we have made progress. i'm not doing this just for me. i'm doing it for the community that i serve. i know that they are tense time and heated conversations. i hope that my record will continue

baltimore. >> reporter: this video of the arrest of fredie gray, who died in police custody, doesn't explain his severe spinal injury according the baltimore police union. five of the six officers involved, including the arresting officers have been interviewed. the union says gray was not wearing a seat belt and it believes he was injured not during this arrest, but in the van. saying they just don't know how. that is not enough for citizens who are pouring out onto the streets. >> police brutality is at an all-time high and it just needs to stop. >> reporter: gray's mother collapsed, his sister in tears. tension here is nothing new. in just the past four years, nearly $6 million paid out to settle about 100 cases of police misconduct according to the baltimore sun. since last winter the federal government has been investigating the entire department at the request of the mayor, as she says, long before ferguson. >> we have been in the trenches doing this work. >> reporter: but you are getting grouped in with all of those cases. is that a concern? >> i have no concern about how we are being grouped. i have a very serious concern about getting to the b

the police union's comparison to the demonstrators to a lynch mob. i'll talk to the baltimore police commissioner. >>> nuclear fallout north korea has 20 mewnew weapons. wolf blitzer is off, i'm brianna keilar. you're in the situation room. >>> we are following two major stories this hour. our breaking news a u.s. counterterror strike kills two al qaeda hostages one of them american the other italian. president obama says he taked full faublt fresponsibility for the deaths. the air strikes killed two other americans who were senior al qaeda operatives. a new protest targets baltimore city hall. officials call on workers to get out of the down town area as state troopers are called in. with anger growing over the death of freddie gray while in police custody and police union comments likening protesters to a lynch mob, where is this headed? >>> congressman peter king is standing by. we have our correspondents analysts and guests who will help us with these stories. >>> we begin with the al qaeda strikes and jim acosta. >> president obama personally apo

the police union says it may have been an issue in the past. >> something police tell us on the street a lot that that happens. and by 16 years of representing police officers, have i had anyone disciplined for that? no. >> but it's more than urban myth. november 2005, dondi johnson, walking home from a bar, stopped here to relieve himself. that offense is usually punished with a ticket, but johnson was arrested and transported to a police station, unbelted in a van. at the station, johnson complained that the officer was driving like a [ bleep ]. i fell and i can't move. taken to the hospital. he told the doctor, the wagon made a sharp turn. i fell, hitting face first. heard a pop and blacked out. phillip has filed two lawsuits against the baltimore police department. >> clearly it's not a problem with the vans. it's a problem with the van operator. >> like gray, johnson had a severed spine. he died two weeks later. 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

the police department there? >> we have seen that divide but mainly between the union and the police department from the statementead there. there seems to be this consensus from the president of the union they wanted this investigation to run its course which is heard what we heard from the commissioner early on. it was a message not only to the police union but thousands of protesters have gathered at the foot of baltimore city hall which is to have patience as the investigation runs its course. they have not determined what happened in that police van nearly two weeks ago today. however, we have to look back 24 hours ago when the police commissioner and some of the top brass made that statement which was their first admission saying the procedure was not followed the day of the arrest. not that they not strap him into his seat after placed in custody, but also that he did not get that timely medical care that he was asked for. of course, that statement has clearly fuelled concerns here. i can tell you this crowd continues to grow in what is now the largest demonstration since those events happened two weeks. a

today the city council will review a report from police chief who says the department is still working with the police union to look at officers' rights and privacy issues. there are also questioning surrounding how long the video will be saved and who will have access to it. a study found police departments using cameras reduce the risk of litigation. this won't be the first pilot program. san jose also tested body cameras in 2009 and 2012 but the program never got past its pilot stage. as we saw last week in south carolina, video can help provide valuable information about fatal shootings involving police officers. authorities released dash cam video in connection with the traffic stop involving walter scott. it shows him getting out of his car and running away. north charleston police officer michael slager later shoots and kills scott. video taken by a witness captured the shooting. now, other bay area police departments are already using body cameras. that includes oakland, union city, campbell, los galos, and gilroy. reporting live in san jose, maryann favro, "today in the bay." >> thank you very much

the way around it will make for a better police-citizen interaction. >> reporter: there are some concerns about private and and what rules govern the cameras' use. the police commission will take input from the police union and the aclu. in san francisco, anne makevoc, kpix 5. >> the mayor's budget also calls for the hiring of 250 police officers within the next year. that budget has to be approved by the full board of supervisors. >>> in baltimore the police department says it's completed a criminal investigation into the death of freddie gray. results were turned over to the prosecutor, who will decide whether charges will be filed. police say in their investigation they found the van carrying gray during his arrest made an additional stop on the way to the station. he died from an unexplained spinal injury a week later. >>> crowds pulled a teen to safety in nepal. [ applause ] >> he spent 6 days buried in the wreckage of a seven-story building that collapsed around him during the:7.8 quake. the 18-year-old says he hid behind a motorcycle. it took rescuers five hours to get him out. >> this is what we do and it's amazing. >> this is the latest in a string of remarkable rescues including that baby boy w

a man's death in cumberland county. >> critics say violent police officers used excessive force on the man, but a lawyer for the police union says not so fast. keith jones explains. >> reporter: phillip white was laid to rest today. his loved ones tell me they're planning to march, on the other side of this and an attorney said the officer showed great restraint and should be deemed hero. these are the controversial moments. a violent officer over phillip white calling his canine partner. recorded by a witness. family and friends of 32-year-old phillip white contend police used excessive force, calling in the canine and appearing to punch white on the pavement. >> they're not punching him. they're trying to restrain him and having him comply with being handcuffed. >> reporter: the lawyer calls officers involved heroes. he said this video shows seconds of an event that lasted three minutes. white grabbed for the officer's gun before the camera started rolling. >> there's one video out there, i haven't seen it yet personally, but you can actually see phillip white's hand on the officer's weapon. >> reporter: he said this vide

the police union say it may have been an issue in the past. >> something that people on the street tella lot that that happens. my 16 years of representing police officers have i had anyone disciplined for that? no. >> november 2005 don day johnson walking home from a bar stopped here to relieve himself. that offense is usually punished with a ticket but he was arrested and transported to a police station unbelted in a van. at the station johnson complained that the officer was driving like an [ bleep ]. i fell and i can't move. take to a hospital he told the doctor the wagon made a sharp turn i fell hitting face first, heard a pop and blacked out. >> clearly it's not a problem with the vans. it's a problem with the van operator. >> like gray johnson had a broken spine. he died just two weeks later. don day johnson's family filed a $100 million lawsuit against the baltimore police. >> regional auto theft task force. >> officer leak who drove the police van testified i did not seat belt him because she thought he had a full bladder. she denied giving him a rough ride want a tactic used a

streets in baltimore compared to a lynch mob by the police union. they want to know how did freddy gray die in police custody. >>> another embarrassment for the secret service. does it take 14 months to fix the alarm system at the home of a former president? >>> and then this -- >> i was holding on to my bible. >> turbulence so bad. why a flight had to learn in boston after an international trip. let's talk live in the "newsroom." >>> good morning, everyone. i am poppy harlow in today for carol costello. it's 9:00 here on the east coast. good morning, and we begin with a city on edge. baltimore bracing for more protests in the angry demand for answers. protesters calling for transparency in the death of freddy gray a 25-year-old man detained under murky circumstances and suffering a fatal spinal cord injury before arriving at the jail and new cell phone adding new questions. this shows the police van stopped less than a block away from where gray was arrested and it may be the last time he was seen before the fatal injury. suzanne malveaux joins me t

the head of the police union says that it is also just a huge intelligence failure that they had talked to this guy before. and very late in the game, they say that they alerted both of the police and the secret service that he was coming. but somehow that nobody would try to stop him. low and slow and below the level of radar that they have relied on, he was able to fly right past the secret service snipers on the white house roof. >> and land in front of the capitol. >> i don't believe that the authorities are going to shoot down a 60-year-old mailman. >> reporter: but apparently no one even contemplated shooting him down because they never saw him coming. >> if this wasn't detected, all the other conversations are irrelevant as you could have the best defense systems in the world, but if you don't see the threat coming around you. >> he flew right in to that huge radar blind spot, below about 400 feet. and the military, they are testing the blimp at the aberdeen proving grounds to detect that type of threat. but it may be months before it is ready. and if you watched the video, you c

city council will review a report from the police department on the progress of the body camera program. the police chief says he's still working with the police union to address officers' privacy concerns. in the meantime, the city may adopt a new rule banning tobacco companies from handing out free cigarette samples and coupons at local bars. today the meeting starts at 1:30. >>> the palo alto city council is going to vote this evening on whether to allow the city's last mobile home park to close the. last night they heard from rest departments of the buono vista mobile home park. they say they couldn't afford to livni where else in the city. the owners of buono vista have been trying to close it for years. the owners have also offered to compensate residents for moving out. council members will hear arguments this evening. >>> it's 4:34. san mateo county leaders want you to know how safe and clean their restaurants are. they will consider a program to label restaurants with red, yellow, or green placard to show how they scored. green means the restaurant passed. you've seen them around santa clara county already. if approved the placards will sta

spinal cord was severely damaged in the back of a baltimore police van nearly two weeks ago now and we still don't know how that happened. >> today a lawyer for the police union said gray was not strapped in with a seat belt as required by department policy. news 4 chris lawrence is live at our desk with what's happening, chris? >> during earlier tonight, officers hauled away at least two of the protesters for disorderly conduct and destruction of property and at one point demonstrators surrounded a police car downtown. >> hands up don't shoot. >> the majority of the protesters have been peaceful not provocative. the tension did flare up at one point when a small group got very close to officers and the police started shouting at them to back up. maryland governor larry hogan sent state troopers to help with crowd control and baltimore city officials have been urging people who work downtown to go home early. >> we need justice in the city of baltimore. we need justice in every street corner in every neighborhood like never before. >> a group of ministers held a prayer vigil tonight just a few blocks from where freddie gray was arrested. the ministers say the

. >> the lawyer for the police union pushed back against critics that say the bill of rights is preventing a transparent internal investigation. >> it is not preventing the batt more police department talking to individuals or having a negative effect. >> 63% of residents of baltimore is black. as is the mayor, council members, police commissioner and a little under half of the police force. this can happen in baltimore. it has been happening everywhere, and happening in baltimore, philadelphia all over the country, with no clear answers how mr gray died and at the hand of home. people say he is not done and plans to take to the streets in the coming days. >> mexico's federal police have been accused of killing 16 vigilantes fighting a powerful drugs gang. it will be the third time in the past that security forces are involved in killings. our report. a warning to our viewers, some of the images are graphic. >> killed in the crossfire, it's unclear what the cellphone video shows. police opened fire on the vigilante groups on january 6th. contradicting the story that nine died in friendly f

they're not only outraged over his death but also by a comment from the police union. ed officers have spoke within investigators about what happened to freddie gray and a representative said this in a statement. i'm quoting now. we are very concerned about the rhetoric of the protests. in fact the images seen on television look and sound much like a lynch mob. >> they've already tried and convicted the officers. that's just unfair. they still get their day in court. they did not give up their constitutional rights when they became a law enforcement officer. that's what i was getting at. some of the protesters and some of the stuff i've been watching on the news they want them put in prison. well, they haven't been charged. >> standing with me now, c.d. witherspoon, one of the organizers of a number of these protests. reverend, nice to see you in the flesh here in your hometown. i just wanted to begin with you. we're going to get to your news with your group in a second. but reacting to hearing the words lynch mob, react to that for me. let's all acknowledge, poor choic

but a lawyer for the police union disagrees, saying the man was combative and was resisting arrest, and he believes the toxicology report will show why the man was out of control. >> expect it to state that mr. white unfortunately had ingested pcp along with cocaine and a mixture of other drugs which actually caused or contributed to a cardiopulmonary event causing his death, not the police officers. >> now, white's family has paid for an independent medical examination. nbc 10 will continue to check for results on that along with the official autopsy results as this investigation continues. >>> we have new information on the fight against crime in wilmington. delaware's attorney general is calling for the state to pay for foot patrols in wilmington's most dangerous neighborhoods. the plan would have the city eventually taking over that responsibility. current foot patrols have police working overtime right now. also in delaware the naacp and other civil rights groups are renewing their call for all officers in the state to wear body cameras in light of the south carolina police shootin

. >> we have been conferring with the police union and with other stakeholders, the d.a., public defenders and others, to ensure we find the right balance. >> reporter: independent police auditor ladoris cordell has been calling on san jose to do this for three years. >> cell phones have changed policing forever and since the public can record the police, the police should be recording what they do. >> reporter: but to one group, protesting recent police shootings, strict rules need to be in place for when the cameras are on and off. >> if they're going to turn them off or off when they are killing somebody, how is that transparency? >> reporter: the city council will be trying to answer questions once and for all when it comes up with a policy. the other question is funding. the mayor has already said he wants no general fund money used for body cameras. in san jose, len ramirez, kpix 5. >> under that pilot program, 12 officers would wear the cameras for four months starting in the fall. >>> some disturbing allegations against a softball coach from sonoma county. the 43-year-old man is ac

the 25-year-old died from his injuries he sustained in an arrest. demonstrators pushed up against police barricades. the police union says officers have been cooperative, the ones involved in the arrest and five of six of them have been questioned already. >>> the family of michael brown, the black teenager killed last year, by a white ferguson police officer has thousand filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city. the family's attorneys promise the lawsuit would be filed in early march after the grand jury and justice department decisions not to charge the officer darren wilson in that shooting. >>> loretta lynch is poised to make history today. after more than five months, the longest wait for an attorney general nominee since the reagan administration, the senate is indeed poised to put lynch in carnlg of the justice -- charge of the justice department. lynch will be the first african- american woman to serve as attorney generally. >>> it has been nearly two weeks since an arlington mother of two was found dead inside her home and police have not made an arrest so far. homicide detectives say bonnie black wa

this as the police union attorney says white's toxicology will show pcp and crack cocaine in his system. it's a tough one because where i want help finding my brother's murderer. >> reporter: she's praying for all investigations. >> the bad guy isn't always the one on the street. sometimes it's the one in uniform. we don't know. >> reporter: she says she can relate to the suggestion of drugs. in white's case she's also been confronted by police in her younger years. >> today april 10th i celebrate nine years clean, in recovery. we matter. we are people. we can make it. we just need to stop killing each other. >> reporter: online hackers demanded dash cam video of white's although indication with police be released earlier this week. we can tell you it doesn't exist. vineland police don't yet have that technology in their cruisers. line in vineland, i'm cydney long, "nbc10 news." >>> new at 6:00 we'll learn more later this month about why pennsylvania attorney general kathleen kane fired a top prosecutor in her office. a montgomery county judge ordered kane to appear in court april 27th.

the back of a police van. a lawyer for the police union said freddie gray was not strapped in with a seat belt as required by the department policy. as protests continue maryland governor larry hogan sent state troopers to help with crowd control. a group of ministers held a prayer vigil a few blocks from where gray was arrested. >> we need justice in the city of baltimore. we need justice in every street corner, in every neighborhood like never before. >> gray's funeral is on monday. the six officers involved in the arrest are suspended with pay. >>> 4:47. the family of a rockville man killed in a u.s. strike is still reeling from his death. the president is taking responsibility but critics want to know how the cia could have been so wrong. nbc's tracie potts is live on capitol hill monitoring the situation. good morning to you. >> reporter: eun good morning. this is a story about a local d.c. area family 73-year-old warren weinstein, a grandfather, from rockville. an aid worker who had been captured in pakistan by al qaeda. president obama is apologizing for the u.s. drone strike that killed him and another a

one of the reasons is that if a policeman in this culture -- i am a union guy. i believe that police unions are much more powerful than any union i have ever been a part of. calvin coolidge in 1919 made his bones when the boston police went on strike. he and the mayor -- i believe the technical term is, they went that shift. and what they essentially did -- they went bat shit. and what they essentially did the striking cops and so on, in every city there was arbitration. cops cannot strike. what they can do is win every argument in arbitration. the arbitrators are hired by both sides, the police union and the city if the city is trying to hire a cop. it is really hard to get fired. in the arbitration of policeman accused of serious crimes and fired by the police department in philadelphia, 90% of them got their jobs back through arbitration. arbitrators split the difference. arbitrators are at the mercy of the police union. like the great depression, this is one of our legacies from calvin coolidge. he fixed so many things in our lives. friends of mine did a pulitzer prize-winning se

the police union is still collecting donations and if you're interested, you can get details on our website, nbcbayarea.com, gisearch michae johnson. >>> it is 4:37 p. and the boys are back in town. as are getting ready to open their 2015 season. p. >> hope springs eternal. oakland is decked out in as pride with go as on all the transit buses and the flag flying atop oakland city hall. tonight the as open up against the rangers with grace their ace on the bump. game time 7:05 as long as the weather cooperates. >> oh, yeah. as set the team roster over the weekend and it did not include barry zito still trying to make a comeback. he was sent to aaa. >>> a live look outside at at&t park this morning. you'll have to wait about a week for the giants home opener. they start their own on the road in arizona, but that will not stop fans from flowing into the park. the team will host a viewing party so fans can get together and watch their world champs take on the d'backs. world series mvp madison bumgarner is expected to start for the giants, first pitch 7:10. >> and that's why we're watching the r

arbitrators are at the mercy of the police union. another one like the great depression, this is one of our legacies from calvin coolidge. he thinks of so many things in our lives. friends of mind did a pulitzer-prize winning series called tainted justice which has become a book. i recommend the book to all of you. wendy ruderman and barbara laker shoe leather reporting went through hispanic north philadelphia where abusive narcotics cops had raided bodegas and essentially robbed them because they had plastic bags in their stock. plastic bags you might realize can be used to hold drugs. they can also hold drug leftovers. there was film there is film of a policeman climbing up on the counter to cut the cord to the surveillance cameras so he could rob the cash register. fortunately for justice generally he cut the wrong cord, not very bright concealer of evidence. they were accused credibly by women who were molested by one of them. the story ran for weeks. it was done with the cooperation of the commissioner of police who i think is a

but a lawyer for the police union disagrees, saying the man was combative and was resisting arrest, and he believes the toxicology report will show why the man was out of control. >> expect it to state that unfortunately mr. white ingested pcp along with cocaine and a mixture of other drugs which caused or contributed to a cardio pulmonary event causing his death, not the police officers. >> now, white's family has paid for an independent medical examination. nbc 10 will continue to check for results on that along with the official autopsy results as this investigation continues. >>> 4:15 now. happening today, a man charged with killing a man outside the dell music center in philadelphia will appear in court. eric jamison will be arraigned today. he's charged with shooting a man to death, shooting that man in the stomach outside an anti-violence concert at the dell in august. police found the victim in the parking lot. >>> and today a judge is expected to decide if his accused killer will go to trial. tam le faces a preliminary hearing on murder charges. he's accused of stabbing three m

cnn's joe johns has more on that and as well reaction from the police union on gray's death. >> freddy gray under arrest at least partly mobile as he enters a baltimore police van. the lawyer says the answer to what killed gray lies in what happened next. >> something happened in that van. we just don't know what. >> if gray wasn't struck by officers then the likely explanation for his severed spine a fall against the van's met ool interior possibly cause bade rough ride. police union says it may have been an issue in the past. >> it is something that people on the street tell us a lot. that that happens. do i -- in my 16 years of representing police officers, have i had anyone disciplined for that? no. >> but it is more than urban myth. november 2005, johnson, walking home from a bar, stopped here to relief himself. that offense is usually punished with a ticket. but johnson was arrested and transported to a police station unbelted in a van. at the station, johnson complained that officer was driving like an [ bleep ]. i fell and i can't bluf. taken to a hospital. he told a doctor the

the death of a man in baltimore police custody. new criticism tonight aimed at the leader of the city's police union. >>> and new tonight, police trying to put a community at ease after a mother of two was found stabbed to death inside her house. >> "news4 at 11":00 starts now. >> the 42-year-old mother of two young children was murdered in her own house, and five days later still nobody has been arrested. >> tonight neighbors want to know if they should be worrying. news4's shomari stone is in arlington where police are trying to put people's minds at ease. but they're still not naming a suspect yet. >> reporter: doreen and jim, police have not identified a person of interest or a suspect in this case. dr. bonnie black's body was found behind me in her home. tonight her neighbors, people who live in the arlington county community are concerned what happened because police have not made an arrest. tonight crime scene tape surrounds the house where 42-year-old bonnie black was killed last friday morning. crime scene investigators are inside processing the scene. tonight we learned how she was killed. >> the cause of death to be a stab

. >> and there are representatives from the police unions and the police associations that you will hearevision all of the time justifying the police actions all of the time and those people are -- they are supposed to speak out. >> police unions will always always always defend the off officer. they are like the attorney for the officer, and i have had battles with them about that. >> and don, if i might. if there is a take away. >> go ahead, mark o'mara? >> if i might, and if there is any take a waiway or any silver line to this shooting it is what reva said that would not have happened if the body camera were on, because it makes the cops think better and more often and think more carefully of what is going to be taped, and so it is a poster child case for the fact that we need to have the cops with body cameras. >> and not only cops with body cameras, b uut we need to change the culture and the attitudes of the individual officer, and -- wait a second, you should not behave well, because you expect that you will be caught by the camera on the lapel, you should behave better because y

the police department hopes to test the cameras this fall. the police chief said the department is still working with the police union to draft a policy addressicer rights and privacy issues. the san jose police department tested body cameras in twine wine and 2012 to improve accountability and protect officers from frivolous complains. the program never got passed the pilot state. >> an unusual end to a suicide attempt that snarled traffic on the freeway interchange in san jose. police used a bomb squad robot to deliver a pizza to a man threatening to jump from interchange at 680 and 280 and 101. we negotiators were called to talk to the suspect armed with a knife. he surrendered shortly after eating the pizza. the stand off created a traffic mess that lasted six hours. >> a uc berkeley student facing charges for recording a female student in a co-ed dorm bathroom. the 20-year-old extended the phone under the stall partition and the victim left the stall and waited for the suspect to leave the stall. when he did she recognized mendez and alerted police. police confiscate the his phone and lab top and cds and they found additional victims. >>

. >> schieffer: john miller, you know we saw the relations between the police union and the mayor in your city really deteriorate when that case happened. what advice would you have for police departments across the country now as they're trying to deal with this thing? >> i think i would give very basic advice which is what we learned time and time again and lesson that we've taken in new york for many years don't -- create your relationships under non-stressful situations. these crises each one represents an opportunity to build dialogue with the key community leaders. but the problem, if you try to develop those relationships after some terrible event has happened and you're behind the eight ball that's a problem. i think if anything, if there's something good that comes out of all of these, police chiefs across america have to be saying, let me do my outreach now, let me do more of it, let me do it better and let me have those relationships in place. when the phone rings at 3:00 in the morning if that is the night you're exchanging business cards you've lost already. >> if i may e

the one thing baltimore police have not addressed is why they chased freddie gray to begin with. how will this impact the investigation? >> we heard from the attorney from the police union, which talked about citing case law that allows them to engage a suspect. really here's the problem. it's united states v. jones, which talks about being able to engage an unprovoked suspect in a high crime area. but here's the problem with that. one, that speaks to reasonable suspicion to detain and not probable cause to arrest. and in this case we have an arrest. so it's going to be very important to understand that if they did have a knife, when they did have a knife, that that was enough to arrest him, because knives aren't necessarily enough to arrest an individual per se. people are demanding for justice, people are demanding change. but they can't ask for any of those things until we get more information. and the other thing that i just want to point out very quickly is who defines a high-crime area? because in a densely populated city like baltimore, or chicago, or new york or los angeles, the entire city is considering a high crime area, if you're just basing it on police rep

. >>> coming up on the program two-bear defense. baltimore's police union defend the officers arrested after the suspect died in custody. >>> and plus, earth day. president obama talks about policy. >> a defining image of the boston marathon bomber. you can see dzhokar tsarnaev making a rather obscene jess ter to a jail cell security camera. video was recorded in july, three months after the marathon attack. and prosecutors say that dzhokar tsarnaev has no remorse for his actions and the defense is expected to present its case next week. >> in baltimore the death of freddie gray. the man who died on sunday of a spinal injury sustained during an arrest. jonathan is in baltimore and how would you describe today's demonstrations? >> reporter: [ audio difficulties ] yeah tony, let's show you behind me here, it's a fairly large protest and several people behind me, holding signs, and it's largely unsettled here, and that's why freddie gray died. he suffered a severe spinal cord injury two weeks ago and the cellphones show his arrest. but don't explain what happe