20-Year-Old Texas Male Charged With Conspiracy To Provide Support To ISIS
BANFIELD: So, we've been bringing you a lot of breaking news today, a lot of it out of Texas because of flooding. But I have another story out of Texas and it has nothing to do with the weather. This has to do with ISIS, and an arrest that's been made by the federal government of yet another young person who's been charged with providing material support to support ISIS. This is apparently 20-year old young Texas man named Asher Abid Khan. The allegation here is that Khan and a friend made plans to travel to Syria as is. Usually, the plan is via Turkey. But here's what's fascinating. The alleged plan according to the compliant is that they wanted to fight along side ISIS. The Khan family got involved here. And somehow was able to get him some false information about the health of his mother basically set him alive that his mom was doing well and Khan allegedly, according to complaint, turn right back around and came right back to Texas into the waiting arms of the Department of Justice. And now, young Mr. Khan is facing very serious charges of conspiring to provide material support to ISIS. We're told that he's going to be appearing for U.S. magistrate today. We're going to keep you posted on that one. And if the complaint yields anymore incredible information like that, we'll let you know about it. Flipping to another story as well. Earlier, we were talking about local police under federal supervision. And Baltimore might just join that list I showed you earlier. We were talking Cleveland. But in Baltimore, in the aftermath of the Freddie Gray arrest, which led to grave death and to felony charges against six Baltimore police officers, that city, the mayor, in particular, made a request for a pattern and practice investigation of the Baltimore P.D. basically asking the Department of Justice to oblige, take a look, see if everything is on the up and up with the police department, and that's happening. In the meantime, while they look, something else is going on. It is in a very rough month. Look at the statistics on your screen. In the city of Baltimore, 35 homicides in just the month of May and that is the most for any month in that city since 1999. CNN's Suzanne Malveaux is standing by live. And I think a lot of people, right away, Suzanne, jump to a conclusion rightly or wrongly. Are the police pulling back because of the scrutiny and fear that they may be the next person to be charge with excessive force and they're just backing off and saying, "You know what, deal with it yourself," I mean, that what a lot of people wonder. Is that what people are saying there?</s>SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: You know, Ashleigh, that's very -- a very good question because I've talked to a lot of people in part of that protest, and it is very measured because what they do say is they believed that they're not seeing the kind of police presence that they had before in their neighborhoods. And there have been some police officers who anonymously have actually admitted and acknowledge that they believed they don't have the support of the police commissioner and the leadership of the police, so they're doing soft policing, they're backing up, they're responding the 911 calls, but they are not making that extra effort to be present in the community. So that is something that people have definitely talked about. But they also are acknowledging, too, that there are bad apples in the community and they are taking advantage of what is happening here, which could be somewhat of a vacuum in their communities. I mean this is a place where -- just over night, there was another shooting, a male who had a bullet grazed by his head, a nine year old who was shot in the leg. So, earlier this morning I talked to these protesters, who went from corner to corner, intersection to intersection through rush hour, trying to disrupt things, to bring attention to what is happening here in the community. And I asked them what do they think is going on. Here's how they responded.</s>MALACKA REED, MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER: I don't think the police are doing their jobs. But I do not think that it's all of the police. We do have some police officers that are doing their jobs, I know them personally. They are doing their jobs. But what I say is the majority of them, no, it isn't. So, it's just small amount.</s>CHRIS JOSEPH, BALTIMORE RESIDENT: I often say that we don't protest when we hurt each other. And I saw the opportunity to come out here because I was very -- I was hurt about, you know, the shootings in my city, you know, 26 shootings in a weekend. And I live in this small -- the city is small, so it's happening close to me.</s>MALVEAUX: Ashleigh, you were just listening to Chris Joseph. He's 26 years old. He has a 2-year old son. He said it was very important for him to come out and be a part of that protest because he wants people to know he really does care and he cares about the fact that there are a lot of young men allegedly who are shooting each other in his own community, and then that is also a very, very big problem. The other thing, Ashleigh, that they were protesting is the fact that the governor, Governor Hogan, supported and has approved $30 million project to build a new juvenile detention facility while they are facing cuts now, $11 million in cuts for Baltimore public schools. Now, the governor's office has responded saying that the reason why they have to build that facility is because a lot of the juveniles are in adult facilities now. They have no access to education and proper care, and they are, quite frankly, with much older people and in a dangerous situation. So they are ear marketing that money for that juvenile facility. But people in this community say that's really sends a bad sign, a bad signal here, to people who lived here, who say we need this money for school projects, for summer school. School is going to be getting out very soon. We don't need more money to be put into the penile, the criminal system, Ashleigh.</s>BANFIELD: I wish I can apply on the wall in that mayor's meeting with police commissioner on Sunday, to see what the two of them were talking which regards to this. Suzanne, thank you. It's nice to see you. Suzanne Malveaux reporting live for us in Baltimore. I am juggling a lot of breaking stories here, folks. I'm going to have updates for you in a lot of them, coming up.