shame. this is unacceptable. this is not what freddie gray s family wanted. it is idiotic to think that by destroying your city that you re going to make life better for anybody. better for anybody. they know right from wrong. they will be responsible for those actions. as a result of the serious violence, i have declared a state of emergency. we are in a supportive mode. this is not martial law. i know we re much better than this. we cannot allow our city to devolve into chaos. it turns into all this violence and destruction, i m recall appalled. we re supposed to be in this for justice, but is it just us? another american city descending into chaos. yesterday baltimore, maryland just 40 miles north of our nation s capital burned overnight as protests turned to riots. a state of emergency is in effect after riots broke out just hours after the funeral for 25-year-old freddie gray the man who mysteriously died in
nothing and go to court to have to wait six hours to have it thrown out. in baltimore or somebody elsewhere people are already down and out that s anger. if you want to find out one of the roots of what happened, what we watched on tv yesterday and today, go around your own neighborhoods where we live and ask a 16 or 17-year-old to describe his or her future. and they will tell you college and i want to be this i want to be that. and you go to the neighborhoods we re watching burn down in baltimore and other cities like baltimore, and ask a 16 or 17-year-old to define what they want in their future, and they will talk to you maybe about friday night, maybe about this weekend, maybe about tomorrow. they won t have an answer. they won t have the big answer that your kids and our kids do. i brought up the policing only because that is why the death of freddie gray has touched off more than furor. it s a baernpattern of abuses.
voices here. you have the disaffected young people throwing rocks at police you have city leaders trying to get ahead of it you have young protesters trying to make sense of it all, build a foundation some sort of platform to ease this unrest. but again, we have a curfew tonight with so many young people out of school with national guard and 1,000 police officers that will be on the street here so much is concerning folks. lodge logic and reason may be out of the window as there are so many young willing to take to the streets. i talked to one activist and he said these young people are fearless. they re upset and angry and they re fearless and that is concerning even the people around the protests over the last seven months. thank you very much. we ll be checking back in with you. we want to get to the things that happened on the periphery of this before and leading up. clearly this started with the killing of freddie gray and then
at is the situation in baltimore, maryland whichscended into chaos after the funeral of freddie gray, an emotional powerful funeral where we heard people pleaing for peace and understanding. but there was a lot of anger, as well, a lot desperation. you could feel the years of struggle that baltimore has endured in the words of many who spoke at the funeral and of course the city descending in to chaos, there is a curfew in effect, national guard has been put into place, police from surrounding areas have come in. and even this morning, there isn t confirmation that the city is under control as of last night they did not have it under control and there were places burning, the community center which they don t know is linked to the rioting, kind of obvious that it might be, i won t make that leap but massive fires police cars on fire police officers injured, some seriously. and again, this is a city 40
say, this is not surprising that this happened yesterday. and let s be clear, this is young people. teenagers that feel like they have nothing to lose. this is a desperate population in baltimore. over the past few years, this was percolating before the death, murder, killing, however you want to put it of freddie gray. and mike barnicle, one of the things that is so damning for this mayor, of course she s accusing people of twisting words out of context, it s pretty clear what they said, there were people shouting at her, she had a couple days to retract them if she wanted to. more damning is the fact that back last fall you had the city council saying we ve had so many cases of police abuse that we have to go ahead and put body cameras on all police officers. she threatened to veto. killed the bill. and said she wanted to do a, quote, study. the city council said and i