in the back of a baltimore list van. but police culture, the idea that, okay you don t understand freddie great was arrested 18 times, so that gives us as cops an excuse to what we do because people don t understand who we are. but if you live in an area of high crime, do you understand the police because you see them and you live with them. what can be done to slowly change that mentality that it s always us against them? it s the difficult because the police are being criticized all the time certainly now after ferguson and the horrific events of south carolina. so it s insulating. the cops sort of come together and they believe that people don t understand them. i think communication is the key. it always is. just have to talk more to the communities and big cities are generally speaking going that.
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
injured, six of them seriously. although all will be okay. i think six were in shock trauma. injured mostly in that rock throwing episode between the high school students and the police that were at the mall when this all started. that was the beginning of the so-called purge that the police commissioner has talked about. but i m not convinced of that honestly, because it wasn t just in northwest baltimore. there was scattered looting in other neighborhoods huge fire all the way on the other side of town of a community center that was under construction in east baltimore. there is a fire burning this morning in southwest baltimore of a vacant building. so these little skirmishes continue to happen. we don t know where the national guard will be deployed. i don t know if they have gotten in to certain neighborhoods. my guess is that they will spend a lot of time in that area of west baltimore that had such