and when it started to morph, you sort of moved into the side streets, we saw some of the footage of projectiles being hurled at police, police using a variety of different implements. a kind of green gas was being fired. pepper balls and orange kind of pepper spray, how did it sort of evolve when you saw it from a ground s eye view, from what was this fairly limited confrontation between teenagers and the police into what we saw later? what i believe happened is, the police were you know they were holding lines, and then they eventually kind of made a perimeter that took up fourth street. so they were they were holding them and they were pushing them outward. so i think you know it was kind of that center and they were pushing the ward. and that is how they got into other parts of the city. erica green, who has done phenomenal reporting for the
body, get out there and put yourselves between the kids and these police and calm this down. do you expect this will calm down tonight? it s 9:30. the curfew is at 10:00 and it s showing no signs. erica green, really appreciate you being here. thank you very much. thank you. in the midst of the reporting or the rioting today in baltimore, actually during the funeral for freddie gray in north west baltimore today, which was followed earlier this afternoon by those riots, while the funeral was happening today in baltimore, 38 miles away at the u.s. capitol, the u.s. attorney general of the united states was being sworn in. loretta lynch today becomes only the second woman to hold the job
erica green is a baltimore sun reporter who has been out in the streets of baltimore all day. thank you very much for being with us. thanks for having me. can you give me what you ve seen today in terms of the trajectory and where the momentum is? sure. i started out at the very beginning of how this all transpired. it started with a posting on social media of high school students saying they were going to have a purge, a play on the movie the purge, was which a 24-hour time of lawlessness and they were going to converge at a mall in west baltimore. that indeed happened around 3:00 p.m. students and police confronted each other there. the police were ready for that because they did intercept that message earlier in the day. by the time i got there around 3:20 bricks were being hurled at police officers.
enjoy the relief. joining me from baltimore erica green. erica, my understanding i was following you on twitter earlier today right when things starred when school let out. right by the mall. can you explain how it all started? by the time i got there we had reporters going out. we knew 3:00 p.m. there had been a social media going around that indicated there would be a, quote unquote, purge at 3:00 p.m. starting at mondawmin mall. students congregate there a lot. a lot of high school it s not unusual for that type of thing to go out and usually nothing comes of it. by the time i got there around 3:20 or so it definitely was a
you ll have an element that wants to express themselves in law-abiding ways and who really have perhaps even agendas. you know legal agendas involved. and then you have another element. you know criminal opportunists look for opportunities to commit crimes, whether it be crime on persons, crime on property etc. then you have that other element of individuals, who this is what they do. anarchists, if you will. marquez, stay with us. we have been reporting on and showing live footage of what appeared to be an officer being carried away. i want to say the baltimore sun s erica green who is on the scene, has posted a picture of what looks to be that same officer that we saw and showed that live footage. and badly injured according to the baltimore sun s erica