Youre watching cnn, im Brooke Baldwin. Live in baltimore, on the streets you do have a number of peaceful protests standing in front of police who are prepared for those who are not quite as peaceful. Weve seen instances pop up just in the last hour or so trying to quell any potential eruption of criminality or violence. All of this comes not even a day after the riots, lootsing in the streets here setting fires to local businesses a cvs, beauty shops, liquor stores. It was a mess. A violent reaction to the death of evidence frommy gray who somehow suffered the severed spinal cord injury in police custody. Still so many questions remain. We know all the information gets turned over to the States Attorneys Office in a couple of days on, friday. Today in the city sproifrts been on the streets more or less peacefully. They want justice, justice for freddie gray. Then i mentioned that other element. Let me play this in case youre just joining us. The element involving our colleague here ry
television. during then then the city locks stadiums in the stadium locks fans in the stadium for 30 minutes because of rioting. it s been a sad couple of days for the orioles like everyone else in baltimore. from major league baseball i have the statement from the commissioner after he did decide to close this game to the public. he said after conversations with the orioles and local officials, we believe these decisions are in the best interests of fans safety and deployment of city resources. our thoughts are all those who have been affected by the violence in baltimore and everyone in our game hopes for peace and safety of a great american city. a strong reaction from one of america s major sports. that is stunning. rachel nichols on the news that the game will continue without anyone in the stands. thank you very much. let me get quick reaction and bring in david miller, community activist and leader. and also i have betsy knicks assistant professor at university of baltimo
seeing the effects of that. seeking the sense of justice here. final question to you, sir quickly. talking to folks in the community, do you think people will respect the curfew tonight and keep the peace? yeah i think people will respect the curfew. it s critically important that we connect with families and children. today we delivered water to churches and other organizations. wonderful. who were working with children since schools were closed. baltimore has to rebuild family. children in baltimore are not thugs, they re just dealing with insurmountable pressures and stresses and challenges. david miller, thank you very much. thank you. betsy knicks thank you as well. i appreciate both of your time here. coming up another police news conference expected to begin soon in the city. we ll watch out for that and take it live. also, don lemon will join me next. he was near baltimore last night. he was on tv for a number of hours. he had a pretty compelling interview wit