reporters. and we have reporters all across this area of baltimore as they find out more of what is happening. outfront, we re going to bring in jamal bryant pastor of the temple of baltimore who gave the eulogy at freddie gray s funeral. also representative keith haynes. representative haynes let me begin with you. what is your reaction to what we re seeing tonight? just a deterioration, riots, rioters cutting holes in a fire hose so that police and firefighters can t even put a fire out in a cvs. yes, that s my understanding. that is correct. i have to say first of all, let me just simply say this initially. that we are urging calm peace and civility in the city of baltimore. we understand that emotions are running high and that people are frustrated and outraged. but violence is not the answer. so we are asking for calm. at this moment.
city, all the religious leaders across this great city, and i m joined with one of the greatest leaders in the city of baltimore, pastor jamal bryant that we can do whatever is necessary to exercise calm among those that are causing the problem. and let me simply say this. i don t think that there is a tremendous overwhelming number of individuals that are at this point razing areas of destruction in compared to the numbers that have been protesting peacefully over the last week and a half. reverend bryant is with us as well. reverend bryant of course i know you gave the eulogy at freddie gray s funeral. i know this is personally distressing to you what we re seeing. let me get your reaction to the breaking news that the gosh of maryland has now put a state of emergency on baltimore city, and the national guard is going to be coming in. fair? is that the appropriate response, given the riots that we re seeing?
redress to the officers bill of rights that have given them a kind of blue shield where for ten days they don t have to give testimony, they can wait to have an attorney and even what it is that they say is not necessarily admissible in court. so yes this riot is out of order. but we still have to stay focused on why it is that we re marching. reverend bryant, representative haynes i appreciate both of your time. we ll have a special report here the breaking news on the national guard how many, what they re going to do. we re getting that just into cnn. we re going to get that to you in just a moment. also, the rioters breaking into stores crowds looting the shelves where. where the police when this happened? plus, the president has now been briefed on the riots by the new attorney general as the governor of maryland declares a state of emergency. the national guard coming in at this hour. we ll be right back.
eulogy. gray s family attended church on sunday. how many more of our sons and daughters must die before our black lives are treated as equal? i m not the only one who had it up to here with the country slaughtering our people. reporter: reverend bryant was echoing many people across the country who feel they are under constant threat from law enforcement simply because they are black. we be expect to touch on his team in his remarks today. we know congress member eli cummings will speak at the funeral. of course we are waiting for answers about just what happened to freddie gray in that police van. the baltimore police department says they will finish their investigation into the incident this week and hand over the information on friday to the
rectified and try to get some kind of conclusion and understanding within our community that we need to be more positive, more assertive, and just to teach our kids conflict and resolution, how to resolve certain situations without being confrontational. once again, from the bottom of my heart, from our families, we just like to say thank you to all of our supporters and like to say thank you to reverend al, reverend bryant, the law team, and everyone that supported us. thank you. thank you very much. my name is darrell parks. you know, part of this mission that we have had here for trayvon is his legacy will be that we as a country have to address racial profiling and