peaceful yet continue to lift this issue up. this is a very positive moment. the images that we re seeing in new york and across the country and in baltimore standing in solidarity with that city as we continue to mobilize and talk about this very critical issue. you know you re a young guy, john. when you hear all this talk about whether or not it was appropriate for the president or the mayor of baltimore to use the word thugs to describe the vie lent protesters those who engage in arson and looting and then the mayor apologized for that explain to our viewers why that word thugs is inappropriate. so often we find ourselves overusing words in our vocabulary that have no business being there. oftentimes too often in this country, we re finding thug referring to young african-american men in our community. sadly, many leaders see that that s possibly the new equivalent of the n word.
back to normal and get everybody comfortable again. we are going to do everything we can to bring people back to the city. [ inaudible question ] do you have anything you can say about having troops on the ground in the city giving up freedom you know what? i spent 48 hours not only you know handling this crisis and organizing this effort in the community, i spent all day today and yesterday all over baltimore city talking with people. all day long nearly every single person i talked to thanked us profusely, thank you for bringing the guard, thank you for bringing the maryland state police. thank you for bringing law and order back to our city. if you remember on monday night, the city was in flames. cars were being exploded. stores were being looted people
obama, we re hearing this night of violence was years in the making. it s been going on for a long time. this is not new. and we shouldn t pretend that it s new. reporter: the unrest happened just a few blocks from the house where congressman elijah cummings lived for 33 years. cummings is very emotional about the lack of education and job opportunities for many young african-american men. they feel as if nobody hears them. reporter: cummings and other black leaders fear those young men may turn to crime or other violence or wind up like freddie gray a symbol of another simmering problem. baltimore has a long history of police brutality and racial profiling and mr. gray s death represents another example in a series of tragedies of black lives being lost at the hands of someone in blue uniforms. reporter: we ve heard charges like that and we ve seen
that s where the outrage and concern is. a man with a broken spine who is now gone. all right. stand by for a moment. let me update our viewer who is may just be tuning in. you can see the demonstration in baltimore, a huge gonedemonstration protesting what happened to freddie gray in baltimore, a 25-year-old man who died in police custody. expecting a report from police on friday. we ll see if any of that is made public. in new york union square a huge demonstration developed. they say, the organizers they want to show solidarity with the people in baltimore. boston there s a demonstration going on right now. i want to go to miguel marquez. you are watching the demonstration. what are you seeing? reporter: this is going to be a test for the city of baltimore
university and marched to penn station. now, they are here. give me a sense of what voice you want heard. what statement are you trying to hear? we are tired of injustice. we are not going to stand for it any longer. i want the fact that this is peaceful to be known. most of the protests have been peaceful. they are giving out flowers. reporter: how long do you plan being out here today? until it ends. reporter: until it ends. 10:00? curfew is 10:00. reporter: these are folks planning to honor the curfew. i ran into one protester, who i saw in ferguson and again in new york city. he says he is here today. he says he will be out here tomorrow and they will continue to have their voices heard. wolf? we are going to get back to you. we are going to monitor the protests in baltimore, in new york, in boston. much more of our special coverage coming up here in the situation room.