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state of emergency under way in baltimore. mostly peaceful largely peaceful protests under way right now, although there have been a few incidents, some looting going on some arrests, but basically peaceful for now. the numbers from the night of chaos in baltimore, though, they are staggering. 202 people arrested. 144 vehicle fires. 19 structure fires. 15 police officers injured. joining us now from baltimore, district seven councilman nick mosby. your city under a state of emergency, curfew from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. how did it get to this point? it s really rough to say. we saw, you know, two weeks of quality protesting very productive and then unfortunately saturday we had a small pockets of folks that were unproductive an then yesterday it just quickly turned south. some children baltimore city
burned out shoe store. some businesses remain shut down. shopping mall closed because of security concerns. schools throughout the city of baltimore, one of the largest cities in the united states are off today. they re out. some federal government workers were sent home early as a result and once again tonight s major league baseball game the baltimore orioles game has been postponed in part because of a 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. curfew on the streets of baltimore. the rioting broke out on the same day the family of freddie gray held his funeral. gray s death, while in police custody, set off the initial wave of mostly peaceful protests but his family strongly condemned the vie rence that erupted yesterday and moments ago you heard it here live president obama was asked about the situation and he said his thoughts are with the injured police officers. he condemned the looting and the lawlessness. there s no excuse for the kind of violence we saw
were all watching it live on television here on cnn all the local stations in baltimore were showing live helicopter pictures of what was going on the looting there, after five or ten minutes, i assumed the police would show up they didn t show up for two hours only after the fire started and the fire engines couldn t get there, firefighters couldn t get there, and eventually they got there. what can you is there any rationale explanation why the police didn t show up at that pharmacy or that liquor store or that cell phone store or the check cashing store and stop what was going on? well there s only two things that could have occurred. one, if they were overwhelmed and did not have the necessary resources and they couldn t deploy them safely that would be one reason. if there was a conscious decision not to respond and allow it to play itself out, that s another decision. that s the only two things i can think of that could have occurred because if you are