Baltimore Police Department

The GVU he mentions is the Group Violence Unit.

That's two officers from the Baltimore Police Department who came with him on his second visit, so that's two more people.

We're at three.

Williams turns to Hope, one of the outreach workers.

Yeah, right.

But we still want to honor Officer William Jordan, Baltimore Police.

Yes.

1857.

She prosecuted eight police officers in Baltimore for the alleged murder of a street corner drug dealer, Freddie Gray.

She, she had asked the Baltimore Police Department to do a sweep of an open-air drug market in her husband's district.

Her husband was a local Baltimore politician.

They chased down Freddie Gray, tackled him, handcuffed him, put him in the back of a, I'll call it a paddy wagon, a van, and when the van got to its destination and they opened up the doors, Freddie Gray was lying there with a broken neck, and he died a few days later from that injury.

There was literally zero evidence that any of these officers had used any unlawful force against Freddie Gray at all, hadn't even touched his neck.

Zero evidence.

In fact, there was so little evidence that when Marilyn Mosby heard that the Baltimore Police Department was wrapping up their investigation and they were gonna say, "Well, we can't find any evidence of misconduct," she famously stood on the steps outside the courthouse with all the media present, a big lectern with a dozen microphones on it, and proudly announced that she had done her own independent investigation and found evidence of criminal conduct by the police all the way up to the level of murder.

We would later learn, ladies and gentlemen, from her chief investigator that no such investigation ever happened.

I'm good, thank you.

Larry Smith served with the Baltimore Police for 18 years.

He spent three years in Internal Affairs investigating fellow officers.

He feels his life might be in danger from speaking out.

It, the, the mentality was, "Suck it up, buttercup.

You're Baltimore Police.

Do your job.

You can lick your wounds afterwards." And, and that's what we all did.

And by the way, I am not, I'm an old school, knuckle-dragging, Neanderthal-type police.

People will say where I'm 85 in the old folks home pushing a walker down the sh- there's 5-0, and I'm okay with that.

However, we had a lot of female officers in the Baltimore Police Department when I started, and some of them were the best police, period.

And I wanted them very badly on backups because, to be honest with you There were a lot of muscle-bounds, lot of really tough, hardcore-looking police that would never, ever show up.

... yeah, the state's attorney for Baltimore City, and he's like, "Yeah, we, we, we messed this up big time," but there are other people you need to talk to as well because apparently the state's attorney's office, I mean, the, the office of the public defender who had the case didn't do some things they were supposed to do, so they didn't, you know, didn't get flagged for review.

The Baltimore Police Department, people are like, "Why did you arrest this kid? Didn't you do any investigation? Did you try to confirm his location?" All of those things.

They didn't answer for any of this stuff.

This is just a bad situation on every level, and just a lot of people need to answer for this.

If you're overwhelmed, say so." Right? If there's a problem, say so.

My problem with all of this is that Ivan Bates is the only one that's acknowledging this and seems to wanna fix the issues.

The Baltimore Police Department, which is not even talking to the press according-

Oh my gosh, yeah