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Police and also the National Guard. The National Guard standing by behind me here at Baltimore City hall. Right here which is a strange sight for a lot of people to see when you see heavily armed National Guard troops protecting our city halls across this country is an unusual thing. But its part of the state of emergency now in place here in this city. The curfew began at 10 00 last night. After it began, there was a moment tension. Fairly extreme tension. A standoff you can see it right here between police and protesters. The police doing a step and drag. Moving the protesters away. This confrontation, you can see it only ended after police fired smoke canisters, also pepper pellets. You can see them throwing them back to police. Whatever they did it seemed to wor ....
Breaking overnight, curfew is still in place here in baltimore. As christi said about an hour from now. Standing right behind me at Baltimore City hall. This curfew began around 10 00 p. M. Last night. It did begin with a tense standoff between police and protesters. Or more than protesters people who intended to do a little bit of violence. They were throwing things at police. You can see right there. The confrontation was brief and it ended after police threw smoke bombs and pepper bullets from the special guns they had. This did cause people to clear out. An eerie quiet. Until right now. It is calm here on the streets of baltimore. I want to bring in athena jones. Athena we saw nothing like we saw monday night. Thats right, we did not see burning buildings. We did not see pandemonium that we saw monday afternoon leading into monday night. The Police Commissioner feels ....