patience and cooperation for the last four nights of peace and stabilization within our city. we will all want to get back to normalcy and have the city running in the right direction. i d like to bring the colonel up to talk from the state police. good evening. just to echo what the commissioner said we have had several good days peaceful days. people have protested been able to get their word out peacefully. we totally support that. i think you ve seen law enforcement help them. and we will continue to do that. but it has always been about safety. safety of the lives of the citizens of baltimore. and secondary other issues within the city of baltimore. you know we want to keep things in place as they have been. we ll continue as a state police and every county i ve said before from ocean city to garrett county there is law enforcement here in support of the citizen fz baltimore and
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tax paying citizens. they don t want a curfew. they re not kids. the revolution that happened on monday, the revolting, that was just monday. it got everyone s attention and the media came out and the whole week has been practically peaceful. it s been civil demonstrations. there s no reason to continue a curfew and just keep more police power over the people, more martial law. there s no reason for that. let the people of baltimore, our youth let them have fun, enjoy their night. everybody wants to watch the mayweather fight, go out, let baltimore people live the civil lives they want to live. again, about a minute until police hold that press conference. councilman, i have to ask you, a lot of money is being lost in this city. i mean, it shuts down at 11:00, the hotels that our crews are staying in saying that they were 95% full or to capacity now not so much. it s a bad thing for businesses in the city. another reason why people are frustrated. everyone in the city is frustrated
things through the right to vote. as we re looking at the pictures again out on the streets of baltimore, maryland state senator thank you very much. they have the press conferences, so thank you. are you going to be out there on the streets? absolutely every night we walk with the community. thank you very much here. we appreciate you joining us. thank you. hello everyone. don lemon here live from baltimore. this is a special hour of cnn newsroom. i appreciate you joining us. we have just heard from the baltimore police and they said a curfew will go into effect 10:00 p.m. eastern, just two hours from now. of course we re following it all for you. as more protesters take to the streets tonight you see the live pictures from baltimore, some say that curfew may be hard to keep that it may be hard to keep that three weeks after
or if you re detained. i m going to go to cnn s sara sidner. sara is standing by in the crowd as well. were you able to get a reaction to the curfew being left in place tonight? reporter: yeah. i mean we ve got protesters who have said when that curfew is put in place, we will leave. we will go home because they re saying, we don t want to see any other black or brown people put in jail. i want to talk to someone who has lived here in baltimore her entire life ms. yvonne thomas. she has been here i do want to i need to get to another police press conference. i m sorry sara. sorry about that. i need to get to a police press conference. come together as one where we ve had pastors, young adults police officers coming together as one city. peace and calm is always better than violence. my hope is that we work towards a new level of partnership in all parts of our community as we move forward. it is important that we do not