showed you over the mall, which showed up within just the last two minutes. another helicopter police helicopter arriving overh2 me. greta? griff, thanks. we ll probably get to you with more breaking news in just a moment. baltimore is on edge police under siege by rioters, and it s feared night fall will bring more violence. police commissioner ray kelly straight ahead.
ads this notice comes out, we have been watching from multiple feeds here on the news deck that show us really without any uncertainty that the numbers are growing, and the crowds are building. and greta at the same time we see police from some of these6 camera angles who are coming together and creating lines of force at different locations. clearly in an effort to try to take the streets back. but as the camera pans down this very long street we can see earlier that there are not at least from appearances, the police are vastly outnumbered by the demonstrators. and how eventually they would be able to take this over without the help of the national guard would have been a matter that s really onus. i can tell you that getting the national guard out there, staged, coordinated, in place is not something that they will have possibly be able to do. sunset is at 7:55. 45 minutes away. schieppe that s apauling.
at that sizing across the downtown. if you are in the area of baltimore, i d say don t come here. turn around and get out. you don t know where this is popping up. if you follow the hots one is over there, four miles one over there, two miles. i can happen anywhere downtown tonight. greta, it is completely out of control right now. i ve never seen anything like this. this is a major metropolitan city. and this is just a bunch of thugs a mob, taking over baltimore. i have got to tell you even at the location we are at right now it is very concerning because we can see over our sould shoulder that there are individuals who are beginning to build in this area. so i can tell you do we feel safe? no. they ve also gretda you must know, attacked the media, the press here. it s sad that we ve got law enforcement officers that have been injured as a result of this. indeed it is. and the one who is unresponsive. if you guys would stan by i
in pain tonight. all of us share a profound grief for freddie and his family. we must trons form this pain into a safer and more justice future for all of the people. he was mayor eight years ago but is issuing that statement tonight. and i imagine to you it resonates with you. yes, it does. all of us want calm. what you are seeing on the news is not reflective+w of the city that we love and admire. it doesn t model the kind of movement that we ve been marching towards to try to change things around. how do you what do you suggest we do tonight to try to put the lid on this so that everyone can then sort of step back, ÷investigate, see what happened to freddie gray, and try to look at this you know n a manner to make things better? greta, first of all, there was supposed to be no protests today at the family s request. we had the funeral this afternoon. there was supposed to be no protests, no demonstration. so we are calling for everybody
greta, you heard that the kids in high school were sending around messages talking )+pá doing some civil unresz. and you mean to tell me that nobody in the leadership in that city knew that that was going to happen? and when these kids hit the street people didn t recognize these were high school students and they could have quickly and easily put a moratorium and a curfew and sent them home? but they didn t. so there is a real lack of leadership in the city right now. i know people may get mad at me saying how dare i speak about our city this way. yesterday the mayor herself made comments she would probably like to retract. about her comment about those giving those who wish to destroy space the space to do so as well. what was she trying to say? that was ignorant. where are the parents? if these are high school students and they started this scourge that they spread on line, where wherest their