2 1/2 hours from now. police holding a press conference a short time ago, announcing that. i want reaction from jay morrison from the ymc coalition, also brandon scott from the baltimore city council is here. brandon you said it s gg to aes s going to be tough to enforce this curfew. can they? you heard ryan young saying that he says people are willing to defy that curfew. we know people are going to defy the curfew. we ve seen it over the past few days. but i think that tonight there s going to be widespread people defying the curfew. hopefully the police are able to use some restraint and understand that folks are going to be traveling in and out of town. is that aid wise decision to defy the curfew? no. we know it isn t a wise decision, but it also depends on how the police carry themselves and how they react. if they see someone coming home they could be coming home from baltimore county or somewhere else. they should allow themselves to drive themselves home. there s aif dif
there s a press conference that just wrapped up. the head of the police department here in baltimore, the head of the state police also the head of the national guard all speaking, reiterateing that curfew that mandatory curfew that takes place at 10:00 from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. will be in place again this evening, despite the pacquiao/ fight. mayweather fight. there you go. i ll get reaction from everyone involved, reaction from the streets reaction from people on the city council and city leaders as well. but, again, that curfew will go into place about 2 1/2 hours from now. what will happen? many people here the people you see there on the street, they don t want it. they want to be able to be in their city without feeling like they are under a military presence. back in a moment with our breaking news right here on cnn.
that they are released from. but i don t think you ll just see people people in authority just disappear. bernard parks, former chief of los angeles police department, at 8:00 p.m. two hours until the mandatory curfew goes back into effect. you heard the police commissioner here announcing that it will happen and some folks even where we are now are not happy about that. in baltimore though a lot of folks out there are waging a battle for peace, for justice and for civil rights and at the front of this charge these three women, we re going to tell you how they are leading the charge. that he s coming up.
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state s attorney and the head of maryland s military are all black women. i love this city and i know we can be better than what we have seen. reporter: perhaps the face of baltimore politics stephanie rawlings blake is the city s mayor, a former public defender rawlings blake walked away with nearly 90% of the general vote in 2011 to win her first full term. bat another native she was first elected to the city council when she was just 25 years old. she is a graduate of overland college and the university of maryland school of law. she s married and has a daughter. i come from a long line of police officers. maryland mosbey is baltimore s newly elected state s attorney. she earned a law degree at boston college and then joined the baltimore city state s attorneys office before becoming a prosecutor. she and her husband have two children. i did not have any racial