us pray for michael brown or freddie gray ♪ ♪ this is more than the absence of war ♪ >> the song is called "baltimore", and in another part he says let's take all the guns away. he performed it the day before before the mother's day concert. >>> the riots broke out last month forcing the orioles to play with no fans in the stands, and now they will return home to face-off with the blue jays, and some are promoting the game as re-opening day and encouraging fans to come out in groves. the washington wizards, they look like they could blow a 21-point lead against the hawks, but with five seconds left, dribbles, and an imbalanced jumper, and it hits the glass and the net and goes through, and with that win, the wizards lead 2-1 in the best of seven series. >> i love that! >> that was part of my job, atlanta. we are right next door to the home of the hawks, just doing the job, not celebrating, just doing the job. >> happy mother's day to all those moms out there. >> yeah, happy mother's day mom. >> happy mother's day mom. "inside politics" starts now. >>> hillary clinton makes a bold immigrati

hear us pray for michael brown or freddie gray? peace is more than the absence of war. " baltimore soulful symphony also joining the movement putting on a free concert as part of the one baltimore initiative. >> this is our way of saying hey, everyone, we're here. we support you, we believe in you and we also want you to pay a little bit more attention to the arts and what that brings to the community. >> reporter: the concert including songs of protest, home, healing and inspiration. >> music has a way of bringing us together. this is like a place for us to come together and just remember what's great about us in baltimore. >> reporter: from prince to soulful symphony baltimore is on the path to heal. >> we are told some ticket prices were going for as high as $500. >>> two police officers in hattiesburg, mississippi, were shot to death during a traffic stop last night. tonight wendy gillette reports four people have been charged in connection with the killings. >> no, i didn't do [ bleep ]. >> reporter: 26-year-old curtis banks t

. ♪ does anybody hear us pray for michael brown or freddie gray ♪ ♪ peace is so much more than the an sense of war ♪ >> what was the community's reaction to this concert? >> i can't say i left town yesterday to come to another city to continue our series on the police stuff. all i can tell you is what was talked about in thor news. some people were questioning why the state's attorney was allowed on stage. i haven't seen a response to ferret those out. >> do you have any spog to the concert? >> no. i know there's been some feedback as far as the state's attorney being on stage, that's a political thing. i try to stay as far as i can from politics. there's one thing we need to do. to continue to have conversations about solutions. and going forward and to look at those systems that we have in place such as the war on drugs. we have to limit reduce the contact between our citizens and our police officers and try to prevent the arrests from happening in the first place and we know that the war on drugs is a big piece of that. >> we have to do that but we also have to have procedures al

lyrics include "does anybody hear us, pray for michael brown or freddie gray, peace is more than the absence of war." >>> the amgen tour of california, largest professional cycling competition in the united states begins later this morning in sacramento. today's stage one race starts and finishes right there at the capitol building. last-minute preparations are underway now. the tour is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. 144 cyclists signed up for the competition. they come from all over the world including germany, spain and england. it's considered really a warm- up to the tour de france in july. today's race starts at 10:50 this morning. again in sacramento and will pass through solano county into davis and woodland before circling back into sacramento. it's an eight-day competition. tomorrow it will run from nevada city to lodi. on tuesday it will be in san jose. southern california later this week. and ends next sunday at the rose bowl in pasadena. meanwhile the three-stage amgen tour for women concludes in sacramento today with american lauren komansky in the lead and

. ♪ ♪ does anybody hear us pray for michael brown or freddie gray ♪ >> the songs are a tribute to freddie gray and so many other african-american lives losts during encounters with mr. us is what they needed to hear. >> everybody was happy. >> reporter: one officer was hopeful. this concert could have an impact. >> i'm hoping it could kind of restore everything. >> reporter: this follows weeks of unrest after gray died while in police custody. the state's attorney marilyn mosby has charged the six officers involved. attorneys have called for the charges to be dropped, alleging mosby has numerous conflicts of interest, something she denies. so many are hoping a song can spark a conversation after weeks of pain and discord. >> we are back out doing what we want to do and celebrating the city, you know? and having fun. >> reporter: now, many were surprised to see baltimore state's attorney marilyn mosby at the concert last night. she was on stage at one point and she even waved to a cheering crowd. meanwhile, the orioles take on the blue jays tonight and fans will be allowed back in the stad

it's not just happening, it's not just the recent eric garners or freddie gray. it's not just the recent michael browns. this has been going on for many years. >> interestingly, there's a pugh survey echoing your sentiments that was taken last year and found that 52% of blacks expected relations between local police and minorityies to worsen while 34% of whites feel the same way. do you agree relations will get worse or do you think steps have been taken since then to improve relations? >> it's going to get worse. that's why we're here this weekend as mother s tos to say this needs to stop. as long as the laws are the way they are and they are designed to protect the police officer, they are not designed to protect the people. as long as that remains the same, this will continue, which is again, why we're here this weekend as mothers united to say enough is enough and we are demanding change. >> how do you feel about the department of justice investigations? do you think they they make a difference? >> i do not. i have had an opportunity to go to the department o

there's nothing that separates me from walter scott, from freddie gray, from even michael brown, because when someone who is perhaps biased or subconsciously biased, they don't see me, they don't see the person that folks on msnbc all the time, they see a brown face. they see a black face, and impute all sorts of nefarious motives. >> they throw the stats at you. >> right. >> let's go right now to msnbc's torre, who's out in baltimore. he's with a group of protesters right now and they're moving fast. torre? >> reporter: chris, i'm at north and penn, where hundreds of protesters marched from city hall, to here, it's a little more strident march than we saw yesterday. they've been chanting all night, all day. we'll work for freddie gray. no justice, no peace. at city hall, when some of the protesters said, we need to be patient, some of the folks on the lawn chanted back at them and yelled back at them, they don't want patience, they want justice now, they said. but people in this community said they didn't expect justice to come, day didn't expect a reckoning to come. they're too cynical

in the wake of tragic incidents like the death of freddie gray and michael brown i often hear if we had more cameras on the streets or at least on police officers, we would be able to hold police officers more accountable. and what i want to do in the the limited time i have is discuss the data we do have on body cameras and what that ireffecteir effects are. the role body cameras can play. the role in government which is where i'm standing now and the issues that must be addresseded if anyone is interested in formulating a body camera policy. so one of the most cited studies on body cameras was carried out in california. it was a 12-month study that began in february of 2012 to february of 2013. the 50 front line officers wore the cameras. about a thousand shifts were studies. about a thousand did wear cameras. the other half did not. interestingly, this was the result. this is from the raw data. so you'll see the last shot here, this is the experimental period, there was a dramatic drop in use of force incidents as well as complaints against police officers. now that might strike you

. >> i stand with prince on this and he thinks freddy gray is a victim which has yet to be determined believe it or not, in a court of law. and michael brown, for good measure, which the doj has said was the aggressor. >> had nothing to dwoo this case. nobody expects a prosecutor to be neutral. her job is to prosecute effectively the people she believes she has enough evidence to convict. but she cannot get in a situation where she's trying the case outside the courtroom. >> she's supposed to seek justice, though judge. that's the reason we place those burdens on them. not justice for freddie gray. if she stumbles on information that exonerates these defendants she has to produce it. she has a higher obliligation. she's not living up to it. >> she's brought herself a change of venue. this case will be tried in annapolis. i can't be tried in baltimore. >> i'm not sure about that one. >> because of the inflammatory nature not just of what she said but what so many people said in that community. the jurors in that trial cannot be afraid to go where their minds and intellects tell them. t