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HOSTIN: No, I don't think this is a fair criticism. I agree with Jeff. I mean, prosecutors don't do that. A prosecutor has a duty under the law to only bring cases that you believe you can prove beyond a reasonable doubt. And let's be clear f. She has been conducting this independent investigation on her own, I don't t... |
COOPER: I want to bring in professor Kobilinsky here because we haven't heard from you. The medical examiner part, we have not heard it, based on the charges, have you learned anything more based on the severity or the exact nature of the charges? |
LAWRENCE KOBILINSKY, FORENSIC SCIENTIST, JOHN JAY COLLEGE: Well, first of all, I mean, we have a murder two charge. And I agree with Sunny, it is highly unethical to charge somebody if you don't have enough information and evidence to convict. But what we do know, although, we don't have an autopsy report, we do know t... |
[20:15:09] COOPER: Sunny, it was interesting, though, to have the state's attorney go through point by point, officer by officer, not only describing the charges against the officer but basically what she believes was their failing during this arrest. Not only what she called an illegal arrest because he didn't have a ... |
HOSTIN: That is highly unusual. And not only just because we typically don't see it because prosecutors don't want to be tied to that kind of native when you have an ongoing investigation. It is also unusual because under Maryland law, and this under sort of our code of ethics, Maryland attorneys, you are generally pro... |
So I suspect we are going to be hearing from some of the defense attorneys in this case challenging her, asking her to recuse herself for having been I think so vocal and almost provocative about what she thought the evidence was in this case. |
COOPER: We are going to continue the conversation through the next two hours. |
But coming up next, the more on who these six officers are, what they are facing and at the end of quite a week in Baltimore and cities around the country. More from the streets ahead. |
[20:20:00] COOPER: Looking there, Jason Carroll with marches on Prat street. |
Jason, what are you seeing out there? How are things? |
JASON CARROLL, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Anderson, you know, basically, when you see everything that is happening here, these thousands of people who are now passing Charles street and Prat downtown, you are hearing from voices of people who feel for generations that haven't had a voice. These are people who have fel... |
I spoke to one woman, she said I finally feel like people are listening. I said we have been marching out for what, close to five miles, how much more can you keep going? She said I've waited for a night like this all of my life. That is how so many of these people feel. |
And if you look up the street there, up Prat, they are still a thousand strong. I put my photographer on the truck in front of me so we can try to get you a better viewpoint of all of the people who have come out here. I know we're coming up on a curfew at 10:00. Still remains a question in terms of whether or not thes... |
In the meantime, Anderson, we are going to keep marching right along with them -- Anderson. |
COOPER: All right and we'll keep checking in with you. |
We want to expand on the conversation we had just a moment ago about the six officers and what they are facing. Again, the four charged with manslaughter and murder have a lengthy procedural road ahead of them. None of them have it easy. All six we have learned a moment ago have now posted bond. |
For more on what we know about them, senior investigative correspondent Drew Griffin joins us now. |
Drew, so what do we know? |
DREW GRIFFIN, CNN SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT: You know, collectively, this is so serious, they are collectively facing up to 173 years in prison. As we've been reporting, up until the time of the booking we didn't know the races. Now we know three of the officers are white, three are African-American, including... |
Also facing six charges, the most senior officer involved with the arrest, Lieutenant Brian Rice. He is 41. He is white, with the Baltimore PD since 1997. And his recent past, he has been involved in a nasty domestic situation with another Baltimore police officer. In 2012, they, a couple, were fighting over custody of... |
Now, the next two offices that you are going to see, there in yellow vest and bike helmets, the bike cops originally arrested Freddie Gray, they are much younger. |
Edward Nero, 29 years old, white, has been on the force just three years. Five charges her is facing, the most serious assault, in the second-degree. His total sentencing could be 20 years. |
Garrett Miller, 26 years old, also white. It was Miller and Nero that you frisking Freddie Gray. They claim this is when they confiscated a switchblade. That's what the officers claim gave them cause for arrest. The prosecutor, of course, today says that knife was a pocket knife, not illegal. There is no reason Freddie... |
Officer William Porter, 25 years old, he is black, hired in 2012, three charges, including involuntary manslaughter and second-degree assault. |
And finally, a woman, Sergeant Alicia White who is black, charged with three counts. Charges that could bring 20 years in prison. |
Anderson, as far as our record show right now, none of these officers have been charged in any crime relating to their duties in the past. They are obviously now facing much more serious charges here. |
COOPER: Yes. Drew, thanks very much. |
More perspective now. Joining us CNN legal analyst and criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos, also former LAPD officer David Klinger, currently he is a professor of criminal justice in the University of Missouri in St. Louis. |
Mark, earlier, I think it was Sunny who said, well, it would be unethical for the state's attorney to bring charges that she didn't believe she can prove. And as soon as she said that I heard your voice in the back of my head saying that is absurd because prosecutors all the time lob on charges in order to get somebody... |
FIRST beer and now crumpets - is any food safe from the CO2 crisis? |
Household bakery Warburtons has had to stop making crumpets at two out of four of its bakeries, and limited production at a third site, because of short supply. |
CO2 - or carbon dioxide - is used to package the baked goods and extend the shelf life. |
But a serious European shortage has mean that it's producing "nowhere near" the 1.5million crumpets it normally makes every week. |
Sainsbury's is already completely out of the nine-packs of Warburtons crumpets, while Ocado is out of stock of the giant versions. |
Experts are warning that the shortage will leave Brits with a lack of choice when it comes to their food shop. |
There are fears that the UK could run out of beer because the gas is used to carbonate it and make it fizzy, especially in lagers like Carling and Heineken. |
And a chicken and bacon shortage could also be on the cards as CO2 is used by slaughterhouses to kill the animals. |
Frozen food could be off the menu too because the gas is used to create dry ice which is used by supermarket delivery vans to keep items frozen. |
Ian Wright, top boss as the Food and Drink Federation, told the BBC Today Programme: "We will see fewer chicken dishes, fewer pork and bacon dishes. |
He also said that even if the supplies resumed next week, it could take some time for things to get back to normal because "inventories of products have been eroded". |
Scotland's biggest abattoir is closed earlier this week, and some food and drink firms have called on the government to help return the supply. |
C02 is a byproduct of ammonia factories which make fertiliser but supplies began drying up two months ago due to planned shutdowns at some of the plants. |
De La Salle and Archbishop Rummel high schools will host a peace rally, Team Up Against Violence, April 12 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at Notre Dame Seminary, 2901 W. Carrolton Ave., in New Orleans. |
At the rally, local public figures will speak to the students about peace campaigns and about their unique personal experiences. Speakers include Archbishop Gregory Aymond, who has spearheaded the New Orleans Archdiocese’s “Thou Shalt Not Kill” campaign; U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite, a graduate of De La Salle and champ... |
The goal of this event is to bring to the forefront a conversation about violence in the community and to encourage local youth to participate in positive activities within their schools and our neighborhoods. |
Team Up Against Violence is an extension of De La Salle’s social justice initiative, a school-wide initiative led by students and serves to bring about a collective consciousness of important topics. The students chose the theme of peacemaking and nonviolence for this school year and have been engaging in various activ... |
The event is free, and all students in the New Orleans area are invited to attend. De La Salle aims to expand its promotion of nonviolence by including other local youth in its initiatives. |
Arson is suspected in an early-morning fire that caused an estimated $1 million in damage today to a maintenance barn at Hobbit's Glen golf course in Columbia. |
Firefighters arriving at 4 a.m. at the Hobbit's Glen Golf Course's maintenance building, in the 11000 block of Willow Bottom Road, reported seeing several juveniles running from the area, said Lt. Chris Shimer, a spokesman for the Howard County Fire Department. |
The fire was reported by neighbors of the golf club -- focal point for the Hobbit's Glen neighborhood, which includes some of Columbia's most expensive houses, many of which have been custom-built. |
Arriving firefighters found an L-shaped maintenance building "well involved" with fire, said Lieutenant Shimer. |
The building housed lawn mowers, seeding equipment, fertilizers and pesticides used on the course. Several small explosions of pesticides were reported during the fire. |
The clubhouse, pro shop, and restaurant and building that housed the course's golf carts were not affected. |
About 20 firefighters battled the blaze for about 30 minutes before putting it out, he said. |
Damage to the building and golf-course maintenance equipment was estimated at $1 million by fire officials and the Columbia Park and Recreation Association, which owns and operates the golf course and other recreational facilities in the Howard County town. |
Andrew Bennet, 19, a volunteer firefighter from Clarksville, was treated for heat exhaustion at Howard County General Hospital in Columbia, said Lieutenant Shimer. |
Investigators are asking anyone with information about the fire to call the state fire marshal's arson hot line: (800) 492-7529. |
Dr. Clarence H. Braddock III has been appointed vice dean for education in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, beginning Nov. 1. |
Braddock currently serves as associate dean of undergraduate and graduate medical education at Stanford University, as well as director of the Stanford Center for Medical Education Research and Innovation and director of clinical ethics at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. He is also a professor of medicine an... |
In this newly created position at UCLA, Dr. Braddock will oversee all aspects of medical education, including undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate medical programs. |
Braddock is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University, where he completed undergraduate work in biology. He is also an AOA graduate of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He was trained in internal medicine at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Oakland, followed by service at the Naval hospitals in Na... |
A time-travel show decides to tackle the story of the capture of Al Capone. They put a cast of good-looking, intelligent, but occasionally fumbling people in Chicago in 1931, place an unpredictable villain at the side of the the famous gangster, and hijinks ensue. There are shoot-outs, tough talk, and lots of pretty cl... |
On Timeless, Eliot Ness gets pumped full of bullets. |
There are things about Timeless that feel formulaic, though in the second half of its first season the show seems much more interested in bucking the formula than following along. Yet even when it seems predictable, this is a series that’s got a healthy streak of chaos. In the beginning, this streak mostly emerged thro... |
It’s also the feature of Timeless that makes “Public Enemy No. 1” an effective outing, particularly when it’s viewed as the second half of last week’s equally effective and slightly nutso episode, “The Lost Generation.” Rules and roles change, new dynamics emerge, time-travelers wander the streets of Capone’s Chicago i... |
The bonkers thing only works because much of the writing still comes from a grounded place. Last week, the Time Team reminded viewers that what they’re doing, dangerous as it is, can still be pretty spectacular. This week, despite the precarious position in which they find themselves, the team proves that they’ve gotte... |
It’s a common theme for “Public Enemy No. 1.” We get a rare few moments of stillness with Garcia Flynn early in the episode, thanks to a scene that gives Goran Visnjic a chance to play something other than menace for a change. Like the Time Team, Flynn also believes that he’s the only one who can stop the destruction o... |
Jiya, too, is the only one who can help. (The stakes are high for everyone here, aren’t they?) After a season in which she’s had little to do, it’s terrific to see Claudia Doumit so active, going full MacGyver on a closet full of broken computer parts and throwing world-class shade at the suddenly much scarier Connor M... |
Like Flynn, Jiya and the Time Team, Richard Hart also knows he’s going to have to step up—in this case, to face his brother. The historical nuggets dropped by Timeless play best when they’re a little unexpected, so the choice to focus on Capone’s estranged brother, rather than the more familiar and not-so-Untouchable N... |
We know Rufus will get them back, because the teaser for next week’s episode shows them in another era. We know he won’t die, because Timeless simply isn’t going to kill off its most winning character. It doesn’t matter, because good acting doesn’t give one lick of a damn about what the teaser for next week has to say.... |
For a show like this one, that’s a home run. |
“So you can either spend the net few hours working for me, or the next 10 to 15 years wishing you had.” Jim Beaver is a great addition to this cast. |
Next week: Joe McCarthy. That’s… timely. |
Churches should clearly stand against such evils as racism, but politics can be technical along with posing moral questions. |
My wife and I were docents of Christ Church in Alexandria, Virginia, when I worked in nearby Washington, D.C., a city named for a former parishioner. Yes, George Washington went to church there. As I used to tell tourists, he even helped get the place built and had his own pew box, but docents may be quiet about that n... |
Washington, you see, had slaves, and in the form of a 150-year-old, marble plaque hanging in the sanctuary, he is being expelled from the church. As a politically zealous rector along with others explained in a statement, this plaque, along with another one memorializing Robert E. Lee, have kept some visitors and guest... |
OK, the part about Lee may be defensible, although he went to the church much of his life and was finally confirmed there after his wife’s loving preachments brought him to a new religious life. Honoring a Confederate general can nevertheless seem outrageous to some. I get that. But Washington? |
As for slaves, he was known to have been constantly kind to them, and over his life developed an increasingly abolitionist point of view. He finally arranged for all the slaves at Mount Vernon to be freed after his wife died. Christians happen to believe we are all sinners and that there are such things as repentance a... |
According to a Wall Street Journal article, most of the people not coming back to the church are congregants fed up with all the politics and ever less mention of Christ. Some new arrivals do appreciate the activist spirit and, the article says, any number of otherwise declining mainstream churches around the country a... |
But it was also a wonderful place, a home of grace blessed with an amazing choir, a strong sense of love, opportunities for intense association and some of the best friends I’ve ever had. It was an experience that lifted me in many ways. |
Churches should clearly stand against such evils as racism, but politics can be technical along with posing moral questions — one should want to help the poor, but a wrongly conceived welfare program can do more harm than good, for instance. Politics can also be divisive when other means of addressing each other are no... |
That brings me to something terribly moving the other day. University of Alabama football players were at the White House to celebrate winning the national championship. Then some gathered around President Donald Trump to pray, not as a matter of politics, but as a way of asking God to give him peace. |
There was something joyous there — a lot more joyous than removing a plaque of George Washington from a church. |
Warning: SPOILERS for Captive State. |
Rupert Wyatt's alien invasion thriller Captive State may leave many viewers confused thanks to its ending. Captive State is set nine years after an alien species invades Earth and takes control of the planet. In order to preserve humanity, world leaders collectively decide to let these aliens reign over their planet an... |
The main plot of Captive State balances the story on the shoulders of two main characters who first appear to be on completely opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to the alien overlords. There's Chicago native Gabriel Drummond (Ashton Sanders), who's semi-rebellious against the aliens, and police official Willi... |
As Captive State winds down, it's revealed that there's much more to the rebel uprisings than previously believed. The entirety of Captive State's twist lies with William Mulligan, who's actually a deep undercover rebel of his own. His goal is to move up the ranks to gain access to a base of operations for the aliens -... |
During this turn by William, audiences also get to see what Gabriel is doing after he helped William. He only agreed to do so after William arrested and tortured Rafe to force Gabriel to work with him. However, Rafe is sent off world to a prison camp, leaving Gabriel alone with just a memory card that William gives him... |
The Captive State ending leaves Gabriel completely alone but with the possible spark of a larger rebellion rising, but it doesn't clearly establish what any of this means. Captive State hopes this won't be an issue since it barely did any character development to begin with and didn't bother explaining their histories ... |
William antagonizes Gabriel from the beginning and tortures Rafe, which is a surprising tactic to take since he was friends with their parents for years and likely knew them as kids. While it could be argued William was in too deep at this point to do anything but, there's also no attempt to bring them into the fold. T... |
With more dedication to the characters and their motivation, Captive State may have been able to pull off this ending in a more in-depth way. But, since Wyatt decided to go with a completely ambiguous approach, it leaves the film with a messy conclusion that may leave you questioning what the point of this was and if t... |
The restless frenzy is what is perhaps most disturbing of all about the never-ending obsessive death watch that has centered on Apple CEO Steve Jobs. |
What doesn’t make your skin crawl about it? |
The media and blogosphere pitifully arguing, as if it was the most important issue to face mankind ever, over who was right and who was a shill? |
Apple (AAPL) being frustratingly opaque and making the bad situation worse–first by saying nothing when Jobs appeared looking disturbingly gaunt, to now releasing a series of confusing statements that don’t jibe, even if health diagnosis is always a moving target? |
The rumors and innuendo about Jobs’s fate and health status swirling everywhere, pretty much all of which is pure speculation and all probably wrong? |
The emotional dives in the stock, because of skittish investors, who should know by now that this is an uncertain situation–Jobs had cancer, for goodness sake–and therefore should probably tread very carefully? |
And, most of all, the needless tarnishing of the reputation of a man who is one of the technology industry’s greatest icons–if not the greatest–having positively impacted the whole culture with a style and elegance that is unmatched? |
That it comes at a time when he is sickly and trying to recover makes it even worse and quite sad. |
That’s why BoomTown thinks it is time to listen to the wise words Jobs delivered at a now legendary Stanford University commencement address in 2005. |
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