course you cannot deny. in the end more than 200 people arrested 144 vehicle fires, 19 structure fires and 15 police officers injured. and right now a city full of officials and residents looking at the map and saying how do they make sure that this doesn t just keep going on for another night. jake? tom foreman, thank you. let s go to the streets of baltimore right now with cnn s rye on ryan young is. no class today for the city students. you ve been out in the thick of it. you were just feet away when police arrested a protester as everyone else around him was calling for calm. what are the protesters in the streets with whom you ve been speaking what are they telling you? reporter: i can honestly tell you, if it wasn t for the protesters who were here who were self policing with that situation could have been a whole lot worse. when that young man decided to
those who wished to destroy space to do that as well. reporter: now the mayor said those comments were taken out of context, they were twisted. that she wasn t saying she was giving space to people to destroyed property and businesses. she was saying that unfortunately the space they had given to peaceful protesters she meant was used by people some people for violent purposes. nevertheless people lost businesses who are left wondering why law enforcement officials didn t do more earlier, jake. there s a lot of people who are starting to doubt this mayor here on the ground. that s right. even if you talk what the mayor said on face value as to what she says she intended there s a big question about the policing. anderson stay with us. i want to bring in cnn legal analyst sonny hostin and jeff my toobin. sunny, i know you have a close personal relationship with mayor rawlings-blake.
saw that and they saw it as just politicians coming together to talk and not really do anything in the city. simply using them as a pawn basically and they want real change. will it come? that is the big question. the lockdown is on now. the cleanup in this area is on now. but they re hoping in the days and weeks ahead there will be real progress. jake? miguel marquez, thank you so much. anderson stand by if you will. we re going to come back to you and miguel on the ground for much more throughout this hour and this evening. right now i want to go to tom foreman standing by in the virtual room. anger engulfed so much of baltimore last night. but map out for us how and where these riots seem to have started. two things set the map on fire. concern from the police early in the day that they were being
the problem is they say that the investigation is going to continue for some time. they say it s not over. however they re going to stick with their original deadline of friday to turn over an investigative report to the state attorney s office. these are the prosecutors who are going to decide whether or not to bring charges. i think people on the streets are expecting charges on friday so that s going to be a problem. and you also have some new information into the fires that we all witnessed during the riots last night. what have you learned about those? reporter: that s right, jake. the atf is sending its arson investigators here and they re planning to bring federal charges in these fires. they already have some promising leads, particularly in one that destroyed a senior housing center in baltimore. they say they re going to plan to bring a federal prosecution of these fires. thank you so much. coming up they stood up to the violence yesterday, local pastors marching arm in