Actual newsclips about Freddie Gray’s arrest and death (April 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland) are shown.
LESTER HOLT: Good evening. Baltimore police are the latest to fall under the harsh national spotlight over the death of a suspect. A short time ago, officials there released security video of the arrest of a twenty-five-year-old man whose death from a partially severed spine has raised questions about police actions. (Screams are heard.) Cell phone video shows twenty-five-year-old Freddie Gray being taken into custody and placed in a police van a week ago. Some time between this moment and his arrival at the police precinct, Gray’s spine was nearly severed. But tonight, police still can’t say how Gray died yesterday.