counsel president jack young for being here. i want to thank counselman brandon scott for being here also, counselman eric costello and mitchell for being here on behalf of governor hogan and for all of your work coordinating this response. i'm going to ask the colonial to speak and i'll ask counsel president jack young. >> thank you, ma'am. good evening, everyone. i'm the chief of patrol for baltimore city police department. at this point, i just want to mention a couple of things real quick is that like the mayor said we love our baltimore city. right now, we're seeing unprecedented type of violence throughout the city. mainly towards the west side of baltimore. we're not going to tolerate that. the police department is not going to stand for that. we're fully deployed at this point. we cancel leave for all our

police officers. so they are deployed on the streets, as we speak. each shift is staffed. we called in outside resources from all over the state of march maryland to give us assistance. we're not going to tolerate this. our priorities right now is to restore order in the city. our priorities right now is officer safety and the safety of the community. thank you. >> counsel president? >> good evening. i am deeply saddened by what is taking place in the great city of baltimore. this reminds me of 1968 when the riots were taking place during the assassination of dr. martin luther king where people were destroying their own stores and properties and their own community. this is unacceptable. this is not what freddy gray's family wanted. they ask there be no protests

marches or anything of that nature today and the organizers of those marches are not participating in what is taking place today. as the mayor stated these are thugs who are seasoned upon an opportunity to show their anger and their distrust and their frustration at the police department. this is not the way to do it. we have the department of justice in here along with our state's attorney that's doing the investigation of this murder or killing, whatever you want to call it. some are saying a murder some are saying a killing. but we have to let the department of justice and state's attorney office do their job. we can't rush the judgment. a lot of people are saying let's, you know get this answered now. our job is to get it right. it's your job as the media to report that. and i just want to say this because i'm heart broken and disturbed about how the news media are focussing on the

negativity of this city and not looking at the great things that are going on in this city. we have young people who are out there protesting peacefully but you're not focussing on them. you're focussing on those that are burning down buildings and rioting throughout the streets of baltimore. show the positive people who are out there trying to stop these folk from doing this. these are not the people who live in winchester out there looting and burning down the stores. these are people that's not even connected to that community. so the media need to headachemake this perfectly clear, it's not the people living in winchester or gilmore homes. these are opportunests out there destroying our city and we're not going to tolerate it and i thank the mayor for asking the national guard to come into the city of baltimore to get order and some peace in our city because justice will prevail but

we cannot resort to violence and destruction of property. >> thank you very much counsel president. before i take questions, i'd like to hear from counselman scott. >> i'm not going to be as nice as everyone else. i'm simply mad. i chose to dedicate my life to and we cannot stand idle and let thugs, whatever you want to call them. they are not thugs. they are cowards ruin our city. what i'll say today, if you are an adult and out there participating in this, you're ruining the future for those young people and i'm calling on every able man and woman to stand up and get out there and get in between these folks. when we leave here i'm going out there. get up and stand tall for your neighborhood. this cannot be a repeat of 196. the neighborhood they are in is still burned down from 1968. this is what we have to show them.

these young people are showing frustration. we have a lot of work to do with them and folks will have to do it. this will be the starting point. we'll have a lot of healing to do but we cannot continue to let this go on. we've ignored them for far too long. adults need to step up and be adults and take control of the children and take control of our future. >> thank you. i open it up to questions. >> what do you say about people saying you've waited five hours all day before you make your first announcement about what is going on? >> we've been managing the situation. i understand there is a call for that there is you have to balance, actually doing the work of managing with having pres events and the police department throughout the day has been putting out information. i've been working to make sure we're managing this. there is a lot of moving parts and i wanted to make sure i was dedicated to that before we came out and spoke. >> but also i mean at this particular time it's in the 7:00 hour and you look at the monitors behind you, this is

your city you ran for to become mayor of. are you proud of it tonight? >> i'm proud of the people from the community who have come out to say they don't want this anymore. there are people marking right now to bring calm to our community. there are people who want so much for there to be peace and to protect the values of our community. i'm proud of them. i'm also very concerned because what i'm seeing is not, is just not acceptable. you know i shouldn't went to one of the elementary schools near the western district gilmore elementary school this morning and talked to some fourth graders and the first question the young lady asked me is why are people trashing my neighborhood? i didn't have a good reason. i didn't have a good answer for her. it is so frustrating that people

think that this makes sense to destroy our community when we know that those people who live there, that are already hurting, are going to be the ones that pay for that. >> is there a count for injuries so far? >> not yet, we can get that information to you. >> what do you make of the criticisms that your words might have encouraged some of the action on the streets today? >> i'll say the very blatant mischaracterization of my words was not helpful. i was asked a question about the property damage that was done and in answering that question i made it very clear that we walk a balance, we walk we balance a very fine line between giving protesters peaceful protesters space to protest. what i said is in doing so

people can hijack that and use that space for bad. i did not say we were accepting of it. i did not say we were passive to it. i was just explaining how property damage can happen during a peaceful protest. it is very unfortunate that members of your industry decided mischaracterize my words and use it as a way to say we're insighting violence. no such thing. >> there was no order for police to hold back and let this happen? >> absolutely not and i never said anything to that to that fact absolutely not. what we did was manage a peaceful protest in the best way possible and when it got violent and destructive, we responded to that. we have an obligation to protect people's first amendment rights.

we also understand through the best training and best practices that we have to do everything we can to deescalate and those were the tactics deployed yesterday. did people exploit those tactics or that space that we gave to that we facilitateed to have peaceful protests for bad? yes, they did. but we didn't endorse it. we didn't, you know i didn't we don't endorse it. we didn't allow it. we went in using best practices to -- >> you don't think it was a mistake? >> to allow people to have a peaceful protest. >> for the deescalation strategy? >> that's best practice. any other questions? >> what's the plan now that night has fallen? >> so as i mentioned, we have the juvenile curfew for 14 and under at 9:00 p.m. we will be enforcing it. 14 to 17 is 10:00 p.m. tomorrow will thereby a city-wide curfew 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. in the morning. let me be clear, what that means

is if you don't have if you are on the streets, it will be for two reasons, medical emergency or you're going to work. that's it. >> we know seven were injured, one was unconscious -- >> do you have? >> okay go ahead. >> so unfortunately, at this point, 15 police officers were injured. of the 15 two are still being hospitalized at this moment. the others have been released minor injuries at this point. >> do you know how those officers were injured? >> what we know right now preliminary is that objects, bricks bottles, i'm not sure specifically but flying debris caused the injuries. >> did they have helmets on? did it get them in the head? >> some did, some did not. >> do we know how many groups

there are or how large? how many people are involved? >> in terms of the number i can't tell you. earlier around dismissal time of schools, we did see an excess of 75 to 100 school-age kids that was causing a lot of problems up there. the majority of the officers injured in the incidents that occurred was coming from flying debris and from what we can tell it looked like it was school-aged kids. the good thing is we have a lot of video that we're easily over to over the next couple days really and safely say track them down and find out who is responsible. >> didn't you know on social media this was going to happen? everyone knew it would be mentioned on social media and the students were planning on meeting there. could more have been done by the department to stop the this before it got out of control? >> yeah we monitor social

media, no surprise and we did know there was mention of something that was going to occur there. so what we did is we predeployed. we actually were out there before dismissal time. >> are you satisfied with how the department handled the response looking back? >> you know what i can say is that i'm not happy that 15 officers were injured at this point. i'm not happy at all. could we have done things differently? we have to sit back and really assess that but it's right now, you know like i said. the 15 officers were injured. two of them are still hospitalized. it's unacceptable. >> do you have a ballpark figure generally speaking how many people you pulled off the street through this? >> prior to me coming over here was about 27 arrests maybe 30 minutes ago. >> let me ask a question question moving forward what role will the national guard play in assistance with the police and how do you see all of this ending? it certainly seems from what

we've seen today that this looks virtually impossible to stop. i know it's not. how do you plan on getting ahold of the situation? >> first, the national guard will be in cooperation with the baltimore city police department. we will determine that. it has not been determined yet. we will once we get the exact number that will be deployed we will make a determination of how to best use that number to provide backup and support for the baltimore city police department. with respect to how do we get to order, let's be clear. you know i've the counsel president and i share the frustration of the negative images that are being shown of our great city but best believe,

we'll use all of those images to hold the individuals who are destroying our city accountable. so once people start getting arrested for the looting, for the destruction, i think they will understand that this is not a lawless city and the thugs and the you know it -- i'm at a loss for words because it just doesn't, it is idiot to think destroying the city you'll make life better for anybody and after we as we start to review the, you know the tapes that we have from our own police video, as well as what we're able to see from the different outlets, we will be holding people accountable. >> one more guys.

>> one of the leaders with the protest made a public call is that an indication you're welcome? >> anyone who wants to add to the calls for peace in our city is welcome. i would, if reverend sharpton wants to come if parents want to encourage their children to act within the law, i met with young people this afternoon, young people who want peace. young people who want justice. they were giving their suggestions on how young people themselves can add voice and try to add a sane message, a message that says we don't, it's not in our name you're are destroying our city. anybody that wants to be a part of sending that message, i welcome it. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> [ indiscernible question ] >> we're working that out with

the school system. thank you very much. well the mayor of baltimore speaking at a live news conference in baltimore city 8:15 in the evening there. night has fallen. and from the cameras that we have available to us, it appears there is no new violence. there was word earlier today children were scheduling this, let's all meet an online flier that said all high schools monday at 3:00 we're going to purge from mondawmin to the avenue back downtown. so look at these pictures. there are kids running out of there. this was 8:00. just a little while ago. we don't know what they were doing. there were no cops around that mall and they came out and got into their cars and made lines

of people leaving that mall. fast forward, the police are at that mall all the kids have gotten away and the police are at the mall setting up lines around it and now our correspondent leyland is there. what was happening? >> reporter: they are in every store. the cops are trying to play a bad game of whack a mole with the rioters and appear to be one step ahead of the police. this is the latest store looted. we rolled up as the looters were getting arrested. they have a picket line set up back behind the deals your first stop for saving you see the window sparkedmashed. what is interesting is the amount of force now that we're seeing from the baltimore police department. there are literally hundreds of officers within about the square mile that i am all in riot gear. they have a rapid response force of a swat team. so the disorganization that we saw earlier in the day has

certainly changed now. the police have got their act together in terms of being able to respond but there are so many stores. one police officer said to me he said i cannot tell you how many different places there are we're trying to go in terms of where to find these looters and try and stop them. difficult to get in front of a situation like this as it develops. it's just here they had three or four arrests. you can see a couple of the police wagons that are brought up. what is also interesting is you just panned to the left a little bit, you get a sense of the amount of police hardened vehicles out here. you have at least two armored cars right here and in the blue armored car that you're looking at right ththere. the police are wiping some stuff off of. you can see there was paint thrown at them. there is a heavily armed swat team inside each of these. we saw them respond to this situation. we're to give you a sense of the location here about a mile a five-minute drive through what

can be december stroibscribed as a rough part of baltimore from the cvs. the cvs was burn add couple hours ago. the police have enough of a riot line there to protect the firefighters. they had that position secured. that's when the rioters came here. it's a large sprawling mall. you got this set of stores here obviously this store was looted behind me and a number of stores on this side of the mall as well, target those kinds of things. they were closed and bank of america had windows smashed open and what strikes you, you pull up on a scene like this and as everyone is running away and nobody is running away empty-handed. they have clothes, so many clothes in their arms that things are just dropping on the ground and as we drove through, you saw shoe boxes sneaker boxes, people emptied sneakers out of. random shirts and jeans and leather jackets that had fallen by the wayside as people ran away with everything as the police showed up and that's what they are trying to do. it's now about night fall just

about dusk and that's clearly why we have a curfew and the police try to get a handle on this very difficult for them. one officer here told me he said i'm not from around here. i don't know the area. i can't tell you where to go and it makes it more difficult for the police here as they try to bring in so many reinforcements. so many officers don't know this area don't know how to get places. >> leyland, thank you. the sunset officially 7:55. so 25 minutes ago. and we got the announcement of curfew not tonight but beginning tomorrow 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. for everyone in baltimore. there is already a juvenile curfew everyone under 14 years old has to be in by 9:00 at night. everybody older than 14 a school student has to be in by 10:00. right now they are trying to put the city back. the governor of maryland declare add state of emergency. i would like to know when the

mayor asked for the state of emergency because it's just been put on alert. we expect to hear from the governor ten minutes from now with other state officials. in the meantime, a live look on the streets in baltimore. sunset as i mentioned, 7:55 25 minutes ago and we've been watching the violence unfold since we got on the air today at 3:00. during our 3:00 newscast here a group of violent juveniles as police described them began throwing bricks bottles and her items at police officers. we watched as police were throwing back items at the rioters. the protesters set fire to police cars cops were clearly out numbered. we heard from the authorities that 15 police officers were injured. two still in the hospital. one earlier described as unresponsive. one did have broken bones. protesters looted a check cashing business as we watched live and some other stores set fires in other places. police tweeted some people even

cut one of the fire department's hoses while crews were trying to put out a fire at a store that had been looted, cvs. earlier today police warned that rival gangs in baltimore were trying to take out cops, that they banded together to do this and there was a flier that circulated online and kids call them means encouraging people to purge at 3:00. keep in mind today's things come over the death of freddy gray. his spinal cord was nearly severed after cops arrested him. his crime first making eye contact with and then ride away on his bike from police. department officials are investigating how the injury happened while in police custody and why it took so long for freddy guy to receive any kind of medical care. the officers involved in this arrest are on add pinministrationve leave. the question was asked of the police spokesman, do you feel

like they did a good job taking care of this? well i want to back this up a bit. what happened was the mall got notified. we knew this on the 3:00 news today the hallmall was notified there might be trouble and some stores closed. the police were predeployed and were well aware that students were planning to do something. they certainly could not have known what. but purge in someway. so police were there. we watched in the early going as a handful and i mean just a hand full of kids began throwing rocks and bottles and boulders at an armored police vehicle and after they did that a mass of police made a line and started moving toward the juveniles who were throwing rocks. and here is the video of this from earlier today. the police have masked the students they describe the students. the school is the there and that

school was on notification so the police deployed to the school. they have the train station. we were told at the time was shut down. in audition that is how they get to and from school on the train and on city buses. they don't deploy yellow school buses. it's city schools, they take city transportation. they are ready to move forward on these students who they no doubt they believe they can control. look what happened instead. the next clip. the one we have from earlier. this is the students throwing at the police these are helicopter pictures. the police made a line and were moving forward are now having to retreat because if you look closely, bout closely boulders are flying at the cops. they move forward to control the crowd but the crowds were too big and the police had to retreat. watch this. some of these police there we go some of them will pick up the boulders and return fire with the ammunition that came at

them. the police are being backed up by the students with the boulders and it kept going and going and you had this happen. this was live on sheppard smith reporting the this afternoon. 3:00 eastern. 2:00 central. the kids backing down the police and they saw it clearly from their actions on the ground as an enormous victory. so this -- keep watching this. the authorities knew it was coming. they put out people but clearly not enough the authorities, what are they going to do with kids throwing things at them? we watched as they threw things back. but there was nothing deployed. no spray deployed. they didn't break up the crowd. the crowd is larger and look at this one we're told student lying in the street. the police are out numbered. and in this case they are out gunned. because all the police can do is throw back. no shots were fired that we know of. eventually an officer came out with a can of something, most likely pepper spray we believe.

the crowd disbursed. the police backed up and that was it for the police for hours because the police were out numbered and they went from store to store to store setting things on fire, looting, a cvs was taken apart, a cash checking business and these are live pictures of people organizing in the streets in what appears to be peaceful protest. the minister who delivered the said i'm crying for my city. now it appears that the ministers and some other community leaders are deploying throughout this area themselves. the police are still back. the national guard was not deployed until the last, until two hours ago. why that didn't happen earlier is really beyond to the

exclusion. they had riots break out on saturday night, if you were you know just catching up today on the news. there was a lot of violence on saturday night. they didn't anticipate anything on sunday, but the state police were activated. they didn't have anything and today they said they didn't expect much of anything. and instead, they got this. yet, they had the mean distributed and knew enough to deploy in advance but they didn't have the troops and west baltimore erupted this afternoon. let's bring in neal franklin. he served for more than 30 years on the maryland state police and the baltimore police department. he was also on the ground near the mall where the riots started this afternoon as an observer. sir, thank you. what did you see. >> well i listened to what you said. this was planned by the school children to be disruptive once

school let out. this particular area in case people don't know is a very large transfer point for the subway and bus lines that kids use to travel to and from school so any given day there are large numbers of kids in this particular area. now what happened here is as you explained when the kids started to become disruptive and their aggression was towards the police one of the most significant problems here was that there are major thorough fairs that fairs that fairs that intersect. liberty heights and they all convene at this one location and you had traffic. you had people trying to get home from work still in their cars trying to move about and they are right in the middle of this where rocks are being thrown.

it complicates matters with the police. >> and it didn't help with the train station because we're seeing something rather extraordinary and i think we should see it. and that is members of this community trying to take it back. these are live pictures and only on fox let's listen to what they are saying.

♪ i'm going to treat everybody right until i die ♪ >> i'm going to treat everybody right until i die. like something you might have heard in a ame church back in holly springs when i was a kid when racial tensions were at a high we had never seen. when blacks and whites couldn't live well together when they

rioted on the streets of those towns. probably much like it was back in 1968 when the reverend dr. martin luther king junior was assassinate in memphis and the same street and the same historic community erupted and burned and neighbors turned on neighbors and a community was lost and that community is lost on this day and tonight, these people come back to reclaim this territory. saying i will treat everybody right, i will treat everybody right until i die. the complaint has been neal the complaint from the beginning has been that people have not been treated right, the people of this community have argued that for years and years they have faced injustices. that when as they have told the story throughout this day and over the past week that they said that since martin came in and cracked down, they couldn't get a fair shake. that people were being scooped up and arrested for doing

nothing. one in four young men in this community is in prison or incarcerated and they said we couldn't get a fair shake and eventually after a young man died in police custody for ways the police department can't complain tensions grew and tonight they erupted and some people the thugs came out and took advantage the of that but a lot of people in that community on those streets where they rioted this afternoon will tell you there is a reason for that. not for the thuggery but hostility and emotions and they tell us and have all day that the reason for that is that they haven't been treated right, neal. you've lived there for 30 years. what is your sense of it? >> well after all that thanks for now telling me the phoneer has dropped off but doug is with us our dc based not from baltimore but i heard youer earlier say you've been talking to people in this community.

but doug is not connected the at the moment. they are securing his comemune communication communication. shoppers are not of great use because night has fallen and i guess they don't have the kinds of lenses that would allow you to see such thing but doug is hooked up now and doug we were listening as the demonstrators tonight are going down the street singing i'm going to treat everybody right, i'm going to treat everybody right until i die clearly trying to take the community back. the level of frustration is important to note and keep in mind when making assessments and you said the frustration has been growing for years. right, doug? >> i'm sorry. i didn't know you were talking. yes, i hear you now. i got it. yeah i think i heard you say frustration has been growing for years and that is indeed the case from the people i spoke

with today at the funeral for mr. gray for freddy gray. i recall speaking to one man that's 66 years old and described how he noticed policing in the city change somewhere along the turn of the century, around 2000 or so. he adopted a no tolerance policy in policing and it manifested itself at least in this man's eyes with a very aggressive policing policy especially directed at african american men. this guy described to me how he was taking medication some sort of pain medication and he was prescribed four pill as day and rather than take a whole prescription bottle to work, he would fold four pill sboos a tissue and put them in his pocket and go to work. he was stopped randomly by police frisked and saw the pills and through him into the jail and at that point, he spent

the next nine months trying to clear his name. the case was eventually null but left a very very sour taste as you can imagine in his mouth and he had many other stories about black men going through similar experiences. it was, you know an story not backed up by statistics but seemed to ring true and we heard a lot of that today. >> we bring you this by way of context, we bring you this the viewers at home across the united states and around the world not as an excuse. there is not an excuse for anything you seen today there is no excuse for lawlessness. when thugs go out and ruin things that must be condemned and the process, justice system must take care of it. we offer these things by way of context to let you know this did not begin yesterday when america started noticing it or eight days ago when this victim died or 15 days ago when he was

making eye contact with and then running from police and was arrested for those crimes which judge napolitano said was illegal arrests and after that when he was put in the police van and when he got out of the police van, his spine was severed and then he died. we give you, that was not the beginning. that was far from the beginning. the beginning was way before then. that's when we started watching doug. >> reporter: and can i interrupt you for a second? you make a good point of the two investigation, the internal police investigation scheduled to be wrapped up this friday and then the department of justice civil rights investigation, which is on going. but one key factor the that the people will be looking at in these investigations is the fact that this guy was not buckled into the transportation van. "the new york times" reported on saturday that there was another, a previous case in baltimore where a prisoner was put into

one of these paddy wagons that's a derogatory terms and was not buckled in and suffered severe injuries after "the times" reported the police gave him a rough ride. you wonder if that is a pattern. we don't know. you certainly can imagine that police authorities will be looking into this and the justice department will look into that. one other point i should make you talked about how the this hurts no one but the very rioters and people reeking havoc tonight. i saw that at that cvs store looted today and burning late tonight. we went by that store and it struck me that it's an island of well-stocked merchandise in a an area with a lot of boarded up houses and businesses and where are people in that know boarneighborhood

going to go to get diapers formula, bandages medication for elderly people? >> your point is well-taken and it's important to remember this area of west baltimore, a transit junction a place where there is great poverty and great mistrust of the police this is this neighborhood burned in 1968 in many cases and really has frankly never fully received from the events of 1968 and now you have an area that has been built up and making every effort i suppose but now some of the good things about that neighbor neighborhood are gone and they won't be back quickly. the mayor has said after witnessing all of this and now there will be a fur cue from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. a curfew throughout the entirety of the city of baltimore. what do you think that does to the economy? where were they before this happened? where was the peace keeping in this area where they knew students were coming out, they

knew it was transit hub, they knew traffic would be a problem and yet, not able to handle kids throwing stones. let's bring in a reporter from the "baltimore sun." what was your observation of police readiness on the ground throughout the day? >> we heard early on that police had received their credible threat that officers were going to be targeted and by about mid afternoon officers staged out by the mall. there are students and young people were saying all day that they were planning to show up in mass and cause trouble. >> and actually it was said they would go from the mall to the avenue. the avenue is this area where we see the demonstrations. >> yeah they marched three to four miles across the city from west baltimore toward the downtown area and leaving broken windows and looting stores in

their wake. >> looking live now at the mondawmin mall and this is from a few short minutes ago as police made a human barricade there, they are trying to protect whatever hasn't been looted inside the ball. is it your, has it been your reporting, yvonne and they have been excellent, is your reporting the police and mayor is working to make sure the national guard was ready should things go wrong with what we've seen in ferguson and other places? >> i don't have information what had gone on behind the scenes. i know people were critical of the city administration for being quiet for several hours after the trouble started at the malls. the mayor launched emergency operations about 3:00 this afternoon and the governor said shortly after that she had national guard on stand by.

but i'm not sure what communications had gone on before hand before we got to this point. >> yvonne from the "baltimore sun" newspaper. we're looking at live pictures. we have a lot of them from across west baltimore and beyond. it would appear at least to the casual observer through the camera lenses at least that things have calmed down and local residents have come to take things back. is that your observation on the ground? >> yes, i saw a lot of neighbors coming together. pieces of play wood and nailing up the broken windows and the shops that the teens had been past and looted from. it was kind of cool to see the community come together in that way. >> it was kind of cool and we were watching live just a few minutes ago from one of our own cameras as some of the community leaders, church leaders were walking down the streets singing we'll do right and i just

wondered if it's your sense on the ground there, your reporting sense that we've turned a corner. >> i do think that we've turned a corner but i can only see as far as my feet can take me. i'm on the ground walking around. i talked to a former naacp leader congressman and he told me that the there are men like himself, older more mature men were his words walking around talking to the young people that are out and encouraging them to come in telling them there is a better way different way and he thinks that the will help the city turn a corner tonight. >> yvonne i hope that's the truth. baltimore is one of the corner stones of this nation. our history is deeply rooted in that beautiful city and we're pulling for you and all the viewers. >> thank you. >> thank you and keep up the good reporting. we have video from earlier as a cvs was burning and after that

cvs burned they tried to bring fire trucks. at some point the police tried to make sure the fire trucks could get work done. eventually somebody cut the fire hose that one with, where they finally got water on it after about 25 minutes but more interesting to me was at that very moment you could see men, one in a light brown suit and two others in what were clearly pastors suits or uniforms of some sort one of them with church standing in front of the police and between the police and the rioters and was doing everything that these three together were doing everything they could to make the people leave the police alone and it worked. and they were able to move that police line. it appeared to us from the air that the reason the police needed to move was because the smoke from the cvs was giving them fits and a few minutes

later, we saw this the check cashing business if i remember correctly was a strip mall at the time. took them a long time to get in there. once they got in they went in and looted that place and big crowds came together. this is not unique. through the history of the united states this is how things played out. tensions evolve take rodney king. rodney king was not the beginning of the problems in los angeles. the problems in los angeles history confirms were deeply rooted problems. deeply rooted problems of the have notes able to get ahead and a group of people being suppressed and repressed and eventually the rodney king beating happened and riots emerged across the city and that's when the thugs came and took over but that did not discount the previous which history now tells us that people had been repressed and oppressed. baltimore city residents say that's what happened in baltimore. across this community in west

baltimore and beyond around the turn of the century. the police crack down came in. stop and frisk came in. one after another was taken and taken off the streets and put in jail. over time those hash police activities continued according to the people on the street. there became to be a vast distrust of police. it was prevalent throughout the community. it's been written about by the baltimore sun for years and years and years and anybody who knows anything about baltimore and west baltimore particularly knows it has had problems of trust between authority and the people for years. there are many different reasons that a lot of people are incarcerate in that neighborhood. many different reasons but one of them is according to the people on the ground that police activities became very strong. and that distrust built and it built and the other day 15 days ago, a man was walking the street and according to authorities, he committed the crime of making eye contact

after that he was further questioned and he left on his bicycle running away from police. his two crimes as stated by the police officers were making eye contact and running from police. and the people on the ground have told our reporters and the reporters of news organizations from coast-to-coast that this is a pattern, and that they have seen it for a long time and that when they put him in that van for the crimes of making eye contact and running from police and decided to as "the new york times" reports, give him a hard ride something happened while that citizen was in the custody of the government. and later that citizen died and tensions rose and events developed and after saturday night, sunday was quiet, the funeral was this morning and after that funeral tensions were very high. students sent out a message

we're going to purge and students went on a rampage. cops couldn't stop them and when people saw police couldn't stop them they all came to get in and the thugs came in and took over where so many innocents lived and worked for years and generations and in the end, those thugs destroyed that part of that city. and in the end, they rioted and were violent but the fact remains that this has been going on very a long time. i've just gotten word that the baltimore city schools will be closed tomorrow. automated phone call to all city families from greg thornton the ceo of the baltimore public school system they will be closed tomorrow and the governor with an explanation. why the national guard was not activated earlier. let's listen live. >> i've also been in communication with the mayor of baltimore with the president of maryland senate and the speaker

of the house. we're here in our emergency operations command center which has now been activated. all state againencyies are actively engaged in this situation. we've partnered with baltimore city and all other agencies in maryland as well as neighboring states. this evening as a result of the serious violence and looting, which has led to the destruction of property and put innocent marylanders as significant risk i have declared a state of emergency at the request of baltimore city. this order deploys the maryland national guard in order to help restore order and to end the unrest that we witnessed today and tonight. i've not made the decision lightly. the national guard represents

the last resort in order to restore order. look people have the right to protest and express their frustration, but baltimore city families deserve peace and safety in their communities, and these acts of violence and destruction of property cannot and will not be tolerated. i strongly condemn the action of those who engaged in direct attacks against innocent civilians, businesses and law enforcement officers. the resources of the state police and the national guard have already been deployed in support of all law enforcement in the city. they will exercise discipline restraint and provide the support necessary to ensure safety and to bring law and order to baltimore city. we've got our entire team here.

i'm going to turn the podium over here for a moment to colonial william who the superintendent of our state police and then we will hear from general linda sing and who is the general of the maryland national guard and also clay stamp who is the director of the maryland emergency management agency where we are tonight. with the colonel of the state police then we'll be happy to take your questions after everybody has spoken. thank you. >> good evening. as the governor said i'm colonel william, superintendent of the state police. and the governor's actions today are huge. we have been here along with many of our allied law enforcement over 500 strong since wednesday working with the city of baltimore in various capacities helping to maintain as much order as possible. as you've seen many groups continue to splinter and move around the city of baltimore.

looting, committing crimes in certain areas, setting places on fire. our mission has been and will continue to be the preservation of life and the preservation of property. i have had conversations this evening with commissioner battss. he certainly understands the scope of what has happened and we're coming in with additional forces to assist. the governor's statement of -- declaration of the emergency order is big and it allows us to branch out even further. we've already put out a request for up to 500 additional law enforcement from the state of maryland. regionally to come out and provide assistance. to an emac request, which the director will talk about in a little bit. we're putting out a request for up to 5,000 law enforcement from the regional area in the mid-atlantic to assist us as well. we are asking that they be equipped with the necessary equipment for their own personal

safety as well as to assist us in deploying things. you know kind of a plan in the next few hours is look with other local law enforcement leaders, divide up the city into certain sectors in which we will then go sector by sector trying to protect starting ideally with the hottest areas first which we're waiting for the briefings from bpd right now and work in concert with the national guard as they come on board, just maintain security of those areas. at this time, that's all i have. >> thank you, colonel. now we're going to turn the floor over to clay stamp who's the director of the maryland emergency management agency. >> thank you, governor. ladies and gentlemen, the governor's been clear from day one, we activated this past saturday in his direction to integrate our actions with the city of baltimore as they've dealt with this situation. we've had over 400 state policing agencies in the city

working with them. today turned another chapter. and as the governor said, he declared a state of emergency. this was done after the mayor of baltimore declared a state of emergency. that means that they've exceeded their capability and they actually need help from the state of maryland to move in and to support their efforts to curb the situation. what you see here is a full-court press. you see representatives from organizations across the state agency as well as volunteer organizations that are bringing the full weight of the state government to deliver resources to achieve the governor's goals which are clear. we will be working diligently in our different sections that are activated, transportation support, law enforcement, health and medical, human services and through planning logistics and operations we will achieve the necessary results we need to achieve again in the governor's directive. i'll turn it over to governor hogan again. thank you, sir. >> lastly before we take your questions, we're going to turn

the podium over here to general linda sing who is the general of the maryland guard. >> thank you, governor. as the governor mentioned, the maryland guard is actually going to be out in activation this evening and what you need to understand is that he has access to our full compliment that's here within the state which means up to 5,000 troops that can be put on to the streets to actually protect property and people. i would highly recommend that we all go in and take cover for the night and actually go to sleep and get some rest and let things settle down so that we can restore order to the city. we are going to be out in massive force and that just basically means that we are going to be patrolling the street and out to ensure we're protecting property.

we're in supportive mode. this is not martial law. that means at that point the military fully takes over. we're not at that point, i repeat, we're not at that point. we're in support of the police department and we will be taking our direction from the police department as in where we're going to go out and support. thank you. >> at this time we'll all be happy to take any questions that anyone might have. any questions? [ inaudible question ] well i've heard about some officers being injured. i haven't heard the exact medical status. is there anybody else who can address that? you probably have more up to date information than we do. i can tell you that the last report i had were seven police officers were injured. it's something as i said earlier that won't be tolerated. it was one of the factors in us deciding we had to get in there and provide some support, i can tell you that.

we'll let you know as soon as -- does anybody here have any updated information on that? we'll try to get you the answer. yeah? [ inaudible ] >> who was actually in charge and will direct where the resources are going and what to do next? >> well, the city has asked for us to take over. currently, the state police superintendent bill pallozzi is in charge. we'll be in direct communication with the city, with the mayor, with the city police and general singh will be providing backup assistance to the state police. we'll be coordinating the police from other counties around the state and from the other police that we get in from around other states in the region. >> when you put out, declared the state of emergency that the national guard was coming in a lot of the response we got was, finally, what took so long? what was the tipping point for you that made you declare the state of emergency? >> we had declared a state of emergency and i issued the executive order less than 30 seconds after requested by the city of baltimore.

so it didn't take us very long at all. i signed an executive order almost immediately as soon as we received a call and then called the president. there was no delay whatsoever. we've had this emergency operation center activated since saturday. we've had hundreds of state police on the ground. we've had every single state agency and local agency coordinated out of this operation already for the entire weekend. i've been in daily communication with the mayor. and others in the city. and our entire team has been involved from day one. frankly, this is a baltimore city situation. baltimore city was in charge. when the mayor called me which quite frankly we were glad that she finally did, instantly we signed executive order. we already had our entire team prepared in fact, i'd already called general singh earlier in the day and ask her to get prepared to be called up. we were all in the command center second floor of the statehouse in constant communication and we were trying to get in touch with the mayor for quite some time. she finally made that call and

we immediately took action. >> governor do you think that you should have gotten involved earlier? would you have liked to have acted earlier? >> i know the city has done everything in their power to get this under control. i don't want to question what they've been doing. they're all under tremendous stress. we're all here on one team. and i want to thank the mayor for all of her involvement. we're just happy that we're all on the same page and we're all able to help each other at this point. >> governor can you detail for us what the national guard -- [ inaudible ] >> well i'll let general singh talk about maybe whatever some of the specifics that she can, but, again, the national guard is going to fro voidprovide assets and work as backup to the state police and police agency. as she said we haven't taken over. there's not a situation where they're going to be in charge. we're going to roll in some assets into the city. we're going to have some equipment and manpower to help us get the situation under control. i'll let general singh talk about what assets they have

available and what might be happening. keep in mind that some assets will be readily available and we'll get down there tonight. some of them take a while to call up and get in so it will be growing as we bring in folks from around various counties around the state. as we call up the guard members. and as we get support from other states. but we're going to get as much as we can there this evening. >> if i could talk to that real quick, one of the challenges law enforcement's had is the moving like we've been able to go in with bpd go in and stop certain areas moving. as they on stantconstantly move around they outnumber us. i can tell you, the national guard, come in when we clear an area hold that area. we need everybody, for law enforcement and national guard, for it to be done as safely as possible. they need the proper equipment to defend themselves, secure themselves from rocks and bottles and everything else being thrown at us. that's one of the biggest requests of the national guard from law enforcement is hold

certain critical infrastructure certain areas that we believe we need to hold. >> so the details are starting to come together of what has happened and what will happen in the future. i'm shepard smith in new york. megyn kelly begins right now. and breaking tonight. a state of emergency in a city brought to its knees. as a violent group of so-called protesters who seem to have nothing but destruction on their minds target businesses police and the press in the city of baltimore, maryland. less than 50 miles from our nation's capital. welcome to a busy night on "the kelly file," everyone i'm megyn kelly. we'll continue to monitor authorities for the news there at a press conference that is wrapping up now. we are just an hour away from a 10:00 p.m. curfew that lasts until 5:00 a.m. tomorrow -- no, that's not right. the curfew begins tomorrow night, but a curfew is already in place for juveniles. if you're 14 or under, you have to go in at 9:00. if you're between 15 and 17 you have to go