we are now witnessing it looks like an arrest of an individual by baltimore police. this comes after several minutes of these demonstrators or protestors throwing objects at police. tom, i'm sorry to interrupt, but i did wonder while we talking about police tactics and in your view of police being afraid to react or seeming afraid to react to some of this violence against them. what do you think the mayor meant when she referred to giving protestors who wish to destroy space to do that? >> you know jake i think that statement is so absurd. i don't know how to respond. i would let her clarify that. does she want to serve up police cars or other public buildings in baltimore or public officials like the police turn them into pinatas for the people to come out and whack at them so they can get their agres out of their system? i've never heard a statement like that and i think it's ridiculous. >> is there ever a strategy to cede some territory -- i'm speculating i have no ideas what the mayor meant -- to provide an area is that a strategy? >> no. it would be so difficult

police took. i'm standing at the corner of west north and north mount in baltimore. it was at this intersection on april 12th at 8:39 a.m. that police here in baltimore say they first made eye contact with gray. they say he took off and they pursued him. gray was arrested one minute later a few blocks away on presbury street. you can hear him wailing in apparent pain on the cell phone video. then at 8:42 gray asks for an inhaler while being put into the police van. he can be seen standing on his own for just a moment. the van takes off making its way towards mount and baker streets. at 8:46 a.m. the driver reports that gray is acting in his view irate. as this video shows, the van pulls over. gray is placed in leg irons and put back into the van. the van takes off again and makes its way toward druid hill avenue and dolphin street. it's at this intersection at around 8:59 a.m. that the van driver asks another unit to check on his prisoner, referring to gray. but gray still doesn't receive any medical attention. instead the van is called on to pick up another prisoner

one reporting from baltimore police. hat three different -- actually rival gangs in the city of baltimore but they all have the same goal and i'm quoting again baltimore police they want to take out members of law enforcement. you're watching i don't know who these people are to be quite honest with you but obviously tossing rocks, baltimore police reporting bricks being tossed bottles being tossed at police. again i cannot underscore this enough on the day that this young man was laid to rest. you know freddy gray's family calling on quiet, calling on piece. we heard from congressman cummings in the baltimore area. also reverend jesse jackson a number of leaders in community. all of them calling for the peace and clearly peace is not playing out at the moment through this city. again, perspective, two weeks now since this young man was found and arrested on this corner in this neighborhood in baltimore. he died in police custody. the investigation being handed to the state attorney's office on friday but so many people f

about changing the baltimore police department. and billy murphy the family attorney said that we as a community need to tear down that blue wall of justice, that blue wall of silence. but he said it needs to be done through the system it needs to be done peacefully. and the family is giving the city police department and the city time to work through this investigation. that's something the people on the street are not responding to. calling them protesters calling them demonstrators would probably be fairly generous to this point. these are young people who are joining in a show a demonstration against police and the police are at this point indulging some of them but locking a few of them up. but at this point, if the police push too hard things can really get out of control. so it's a very tight line that we're walking here these police officers are trying to maintain order, but at the same time not let things out of control. good luck on balancing that. >> yeah. that balance that you are focusing on, so well said because as we

how would that affect the way police now police baltimore? >> well right now police officers have ten days to essentially get their stories straight and that's something that a normal citizen like you or i, we wouldn't have that opportunity so if you or i were arrested today we would not have ten days to get our story straight so that is one of the reasons that the community is frustrated when it comes to the interaction between police officers and citizen, police officers are afforded the right to refuse essentially to make any statements about a particular case for ten days. and if that law were not in effect the police officers involved in this case would not have had that much time to essentially come up with a story as to how freddie gray's spinal cord was severed. >> what are you expecting to happen may 1st. the police will complete their investigation, does that mean they will just happened their information to the state prosecutor, will there be any public aspect to what happens friday? >> only the police department knows that right no

shifts and deployed 150 officers to help reinforce baltimore city police and baltimore city police not responding alone. they have reinforcements from howard county maryland state police with 40 troopers earlier today. come 7:30 tonight, they'll send 42 more and a group effort and to be clear not just seven officers injured but eight with the lieutenant attacked today from maryland transit administration police. >> here's what we have not seen. two different armored cars that drove through the area while rocks and bottles hurled at it. we have not seen the big, heavy duty stuff i believe they have in baltimore don't they? >> maryland state police have a lot of that. in fact police agencies throughout maryland more than 2,000 pieces of military grade equipment given to them by the department of defense. baltimore city police had rifles ginn them in the military surplus program and came under scrutiny after ferguson. you don't see tanks in the video but there are armored vehicles throughout the city of maryland. city of laurel has one. we'll see if that makes the way into the city and th

baltimore. it has been a trying day. there are thousands of police officers thousands of national guard troops on the streets of baltimore tonight. again, it is disconcerting to think about the fact that national guard troops on the streets of baltimore are armed with military weapons and live ammunition on the streets of any major american city. but so far the story of today is peaceful peaceful protests. peaceful crowds. crowds policing themselves and community organizing like you can't believe. tonight is not like last night in baltimore. this mandatory curfew goes into effect in less than an hour. we will see what happens then. joining us now live from baltimore is nbc news correspondent gabe gutierrez. gabe thanks very much for joining us. appreciate your time. >> reporter: you bet rachel. yeah, we're here at the corner of pennsylvania and west north. this is right next to that cvs pharmacy that was burned and looted yesterday. i want to ask my cameraman to pan around here. you can see the scene. there's a lot of reporters here but also a lot of

baltimore. that's going to hurt the city's coffers. you're seeing a lot of police down here and you've got people right below me playing volleyball. that's about it for downtown baltimore right now. waiting to hear from the mayor. as soon as we hear something from them we'll bring that to you. you can see it right over here to

out front now, the chief of communications for the baltimore police department. i appreciate you being with me. we just saw moments ago, one of our reporters brian todd on the streets caught up in the middle of a clash between protesters and police. you've seen it. we're showing it again now for our viewers. with five or six police officers and one man who was protesting. we have -- this is something that we had not seen in recent days. we've seen swearing, expletives we've seen spitting. we have not seen this. how concerned are you that the situation could escalate? >> people are angry and they're frustrated and we completely understand that. we knew that people were going to be angry and frustrated and they were going to take to the streets to let the nation the police commissioner and all of us know how they feel. but adds you've mentioned and several of the reporters have mentioned that that have been peaceful and that the police officers have remained calm. they've done their best to acquiesce. we have done everything that we possibly can in order to allow th

injuries do occur while making arrests, and it's just a part of life in policing in baltimore. parties get injured when there's a subject that flees from the police. it's unfortunate. it's always unfortunate. extremely unfortunate that it resulted in a death or serious injury. >> let me ask you this. having worked in the baltimore police department are you confident that if someone in that department saw something incriminating, saw something that shouldn't have been done to freddie gray, if in fact that's what happened and we don't know, but if a member of the police department saw something, they would come forward and they would blow the whistle on that? can you be confident that would happen? >> i think it's happened before. it's happened several times that i know of. when there's any impropriety, when something is done in the line of policing that compromises the integrity of other officers in a city like baltimore where you can't escape the community because you're deeply entrenched in it i think that it behooves an officer their personal safety even to come forward and st

this started after a funeral for grid dee gray in died in baltimore police custody. lice did use discretion when enforceing to night's curfew. baltimore city schools will reopen tomorrow that could change depending on what unfolds to night. live team coverage. let's start with chris o'connell live in baltimore. chris? >> reporter: iain tonight the city of baltimore began the healing process but by no means is this a city back to normal. take a look what i'm looking at right now. huge line much law enforcement three or four deep. citywide week long occur fee has just gone sneak the mayor of baltimore right now in a bull horn trying to disperse this crowd as well as sights around the city. including the national guard in town here today. let me take a look at what happened just moments ago in another part of the city. as this curfew approaches a group of angry protesters getting face to face with police as some try to hold them back. many here forcing frustration with the police and media one of the few confrontations that happened tonight. >> ya'll don't belong here. y

police. that's what we saw happen here in baltimore. with that as the backdrop don't you really have to take that into account when you're putting together your -- i suppose your tactics here? for instance, is that the reason why we're seeing the police are restraining themselves and not reacting or responding when they've been getting bombarded by this debris that we've been seeing them take for the last hour or two? guest: in part, it is because if you overreact, of course, you get -- you have other elements and my assumption would be that you have outside elements that are ginning this thing up like you did in ferguson and in st. louis. you literally have people that are coming there to create problems so it's a really tough call for the police commissioner to be able to determine at what point do you start being aggressive? they are aggressive. they've got the shields. there are things that can be done again, you try to break the groups of the smaller groups and by using the shields but i will tell you that at the same time throwing

how would that affect the way police now police baltimore? >> well, right now police officers have ten days to essentially get their stories straight, and that's something that a normal citizen like you or i, we wouldn't have that opportunity, so if you or i were arrested today, we would not have ten days to get our story straight, so that is one of the reasons that the community is frustrated when it comes to the interaction between police officers and citizens, police officers are afforded the right to refuse essentially to make any statements about a particular case for ten days. and if that law were not in effect, then the police officers involved in this case would not have had that much time to essentially come up with a story as to how freddie gray's spinal cord was severed. >> what are you expecting to happen on friday on may 1st? the police have said that they will complete their investigation. does that mean they will just hand their information to the state prosecutor, will there be any public aspect to what happens on friday? >> on

not just baltimore police. the baltimore police has asked for police from other jurisdictions, from maryland state police to neighboring townties. and all of them hopefully most of them have been given training in civil disturbance tactics. they call it cdu. these officers are trained to disperse people. small groups of people with potentially bad actors from coalescing into large groups of people where it just gets out of control. what they're trying to do right now is urge these people to get out. we've seen what looked like a couple of people being arrested. it doesn't look like these people are ready to call it a day. and these police officers are very well-lined up. it's a tactic where if they need to break out and start using forward, they do it as a unit. they try to not just break out and every officer for himself. they're going to do anything they do as a unit. and at this point, based on what we've been seeing, it strikes the imagination to believe that they've called for reinforcements and that they'

we know there are about 3,000 baltimore police on the streets right now. and you talk about the special operations contingent of the prince george's county police. tell us what special operations mean. guest: well, maureen, i think probably the way most people would know special operations division is by any sort of civil disturbance unit or barricade situations. these are highly trained officers who are in a position to respond to crises as needed. maureen: trained for what? what kind of conditions what kinds of -- guest: conditions like you're seeing right now. these riots or civil disturbances. they've got the materials and the training needed to be able to be in a position to respond and think carefully through these very stressful dynamic situations. leon: we've been watching this one situation happening or they've been watching some massive looting going on at a c.v.s. in baltimore. we want to check in with our kevin lewis who has made his way to that c.v.s. at the corner of north avenue and pennsylvania avenue. you've made it down there to the ground

how would that affect the way police now police baltimore? >> well, right now police officers have ten days to essentially get their stories straight and that's something that a normal citizen like you or i, we wouldn't have that opportunity so if you or i were arrested today we would not have ten days to get our story straight so that is one of the reasons that the community is frustrated when it comes to the interaction between police officers and citizen, police officers are afforded the right to refuse essentially to make any statements about a particular case for ten days. and if that law were not in effect the police officers involved in this case would not have had that much time to essentially come up with a story as to how freddie gray's spinal cord was severed. >> what are you expecting to happen may 1st. the police will complete their investigation, does that mean they will just hand their information to the state prosecutor, will there be any public aspect to what happens friday? >> only the police department knows that right now.

this next thing that happened was, according to the baltimore police report, he ran from them. so his two crimes that day were, a. making eye contact and b., running from police. i tell you this because they have made no other accusations. about what freddie gray did that day. so, judge napolitano, our senior judicial analyst has said that the arrest was and i quote absolutely illegal unquote. unless and until they come up with some other thing that freddie gray might have done but the police reports indicate nothing but a., looking at them and b., running from them. so neither one of those is an arrestable offense and if we take it farther freddie gray was brought into a vehicle and hauled away by police. when you're in police custody your safety is the responsibility of the police, the government has taken you you are in government control no longer your own and the government is responsible for your safety and well-being. that is how this works. but while in custody of the government of the police, something happened to freddie gray. his spine was, by all accounts, severed or

now we have prince georges county baltimore county police all assisting baltimore city police. you guys aren't used to covering riots every day in montgomery county or violent behavior like this with large groups. i assume all of your people are in riot gear. is that right? >> they are. they have been trained for this. but as you say, this is pretty extreme behavior. what isn't extreme -- what is routine is that there is a mutual aid package within the state of maryland and other jurisdictions are accustomed to responding to assist large crowds in other areas because most departments just don't have the personnel for something like this. so we need to borrow from one another within the state. >> paul thank you so much. we'll probably be checking in with you a little bit later. we hope all of your people stay safe up there. thanks so much. >> we want to go to jane miller from the nbc station in baltimore and i saw her tweet out pictures. there's the inner harbor right now. >> where was going to happen took place on social media from what i understand. >> there were fliers distri

i'm colonel de souza, the chief of patrol for baltimore city police department. int 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 tat. the police department is not going to stand for that. we're fully deployed at this

there's baltimore police officers there.hey are surrounding this intersection of west north avenue and pennsylvania avenue and this is right near where the cvs pharmacy was actually going up in flames and looted on the day that this happened now, it's important to point out that a lot of the folks were actually throwing things at police and i'm going to show you that video right now. police officers at 10:00 were telling people to go home. congressman elijah cummings was on a bullhorn saying go home go home to yourl of a sudden police were throwing things at police like bottles and bottled water as well and other different objects. police then had to move them back and police threw pepper devices to -- that was burning people's eyes and a lot of folks tell me that they were just trying to get away from the situation. you're now going to hear from a baltimore resident and congressman elijah cummings. >> the law is behind the state of maryland. the law is behind the police. the mayor has said go home. she brought out the natio

long-time baltimore resident and professor who wrote about his experiences growing up with the baltimore police in the "new york times" op ed this morning. daniel bangino, former nypd officer and secret service agent. dee, you know baltimore so well. the people of baltimore, you heard evan's reporting there may not be charges and they may not have a decision here for a long time. are the people of baltimore prepared for this? what happens if there is no decision for months? and if there are no charges against these officers? -- >> it's hard to say. right now baltimore doesn't look like baltimore. we're living in a mill tarized state right now. even walking over here i passed all types of humvees and dudes with assault rifles and guns that plug into vans and things like that. so it's hard to say. let's just hope that the right thing happens so we don't have to worry about that. >> i guess the question is what is the right thing? in your op ed you wrote, when it comes to baltimore police department i'm quoting your op ed the only option is to rise up and force mayor rawlings-blake to make what sh

police harass them? >> i don't know if you can say that. baltimore is one of these very unique places where you go two blocks one way and the police come there all the time. two blocks the other way and you're in a wealthy part of town. this is the mall. one of the better areas. it's near a high school. but, you know in baltimore, sadly, sometimes things happen. you can find bricks everywhere. i remember when i was working in baltimore, a lot of cars broken into using a brick. and baltimore has had a lot of flight. there's the smoke that we're talking about. that was when that was deployed. i would say just about five minutes ago. >> that was the video we saw prior to that was them removing that officer and we saw bricks being thrown at them as they were trying to transport one of their injured. three other police officers waiting to be transported to the hospital in the midst of this and i think what we have been seeing is police just forming a line and kind of moving with the protesters and not any direct contact between them. >> a lot of dispersin

baltimore. a curfew in effect for one more hour following a mostly peaceful night of protests. policesing smoke canisters and pepper bullets to keep crowds in line. a striking difference from monday's violence. good morning, welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> and i'm john berman live in baltimore. it's wednesday, april 29th. the 4:00 a.m. in east. 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. >> that's ri

let's bring in captain, a spokesman for the baltimore police department. captain, let's start with the general picture here. what it looks like. there is this disturbing video of freddie gray wailing with police on top of them. there's video of him apparently being dragged to the police van. it looks like he is unable or having trouble walking. the next thing we know freddie gray's neck has snapped. a few days later he's dead. 11 days later the police of baltimore have provided no explanation, no accountability, nothing. do you understand why this looks so bad for the baltimore police? >> you know jake first of all thank you for the opportunity to be here. what i know is that we have a community that's in pain. we have a family that's in pain. we have officers that want answers to the same questions you're asking. we have an obligation to find out exactly what happened here. and this investigation is doing just that. we have a talented team of investigators that we brought together to get into the details of what happened here. and get to the truth. we owe

we've gotten reports from the police and the baltimore police tweeted out there have been several police officers injured in the midst of all of this, this chaos that we've seen play out here as you just saw here moments ago. right there -- right next to where kevin was standing there on that street where people were coming up and throwing objects right at the police vehicles as they are going by. alison: several large objects that they were throwing in front of the vehicles. and we are assuming that some of the officers at least who were injured, it was from flying debris, rocks, bottles, things like that. while kevin goes somewhere safer, we want to go to our horace holmes who is standing by in our newsroom, also monitoring the situation with information for us. horace? horace: alison i lived for several years and worked as a reporter in baltimore. very familiar with this area where this incident is happening right now over there by mondawmin mall. i'll tell you, i've never seen anything like that all the years that i was on the streets covering news in baltimore. and these are scenes

at this point baltimore police have reported this. philadelphia police have taken notice of it. we spoke late this afternoon with deputy chill richard about what the city is doing concerning this threat. >> concerned obviously for a lot of reasons for the safety of the men and women in blue. more importantly we push that out. we got to let them know. it's important they are aware. so far the threat is not -- nothing suggested here but we still got to be mindful of the fact that this stuff is hate can spread pretty wide and so we push it out to everybody so that they're aware and tell them to be cautious. >> we push it out over citywide tele type so it will be read at roll calls and as well e-mails so everybody is aware. no body misses it. again it's just something we have to be mindful of. >> reporter: now only one of those three gangs has any kind of affiliations here in philadelphia. at least several sets of the bloods there are bloods in trenton and camden as well nearby. those cities have also alerted their officers. philadelphia police will continue to monitor the situation

baltimore police say they spot gray and begin to approach him. asons not yet disclosed, they say gray immediately runs away. just a minute later, police take gray into custody. and then 14 minutes later, at 8:54 in the morning, this is the first video we see of the event. >> ah! >> officers load gray into the police van. police say video evidence indicates gray is conscious and speaking at the time. a half hour later, police request paramedics bring gray to a hospital. gray's family attorney says he lapsed into a comab underwent surgery. spinal cord damaged and a week later died at 7:00 in the morning. two looming questions. why did police pursue gray and what happened to him while he was in their custody that resulted in his death? >> the officers believed that mr. gray was either immediately involved or had been recently involved in criminal activity and they decided to make contact with mr. gray. now, that is still a a bit vague. >> reporter: this most recent mis mystery sparking more outrage, in a nation already embroiled in debate over police

baltimore riots today. he had pointed words for police. we're going to play you comments and why i think he missed the mark. but first surveillance footage from a liquor store being looted last night. >>> this is a fox news alert. we have exclusive video of looters rioting in a store the protests cost millions of dollars citywide forcing many business owners to fend for themselves. joining me is charlie sung to put a price tag on what is going to cost what would it be? >> at this point it's hard to say. it's too early. there are several korean organizations in maryland that are gathering information from the business owners to determine how many businesses have been affected and what the extent of the damage s at this point it's tough say. >> i want to go back to looting video here. i see people are these mostly minority-owned businesses that you represent, sir? >> that is correct. korean owned businesses specifically. >> i'm watching this. you've seen the video. you've shared with us video for the first time. this guy looks like he has a

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police force? where is the national guard? why is this happening? in the city of baltimore? they advertised hours ago that these protestors were going to take vile lntviolent action. what's going on? >> back to ferguson police were criticized if they come out in force, wearing military gary, looking mean. baltimore made a deliberate attempt to keep that down. keep that militarization look down and they were out there the other night in street shirts with no helmets and i was criticizing that as being unsafe. so i think now they're finally realizing that when you have gangs on the streets threatening the police the time for being nice and not putting on protective gear is over. it's time to protect nobel yourself -- not only yourself but the community. these are businesses. people need their personal property and persons protected and that's not happening. >> think could get a lot worse. stand by. i want to bring in the captain, spokesman for the baltimore police department. captain what is going on in your city right now? it's hard to believe you're only 40 miles from the nat

police custody. we have a live picture now from above baltimore. this is a picture of one of the areas where police officers have been battling the street protesters. at least one drugstore in the city is on fire after it was looted by those protesters just a couple hours ago. rioters threw rocks and bricks at officers. they attacked patrol cars, and late today looting was spreading. schools, businesses and train stations closed. baltimore police say at least seven officers were injured. some of them suffered broken bones. president obama has just talked to the mayor about the violence. we have two reports on this breaking story and first we'll go the chip reid. chip? >> well, scott this intersection behind me is where the rioting began just a short time ago. it looked like a war down there. my cameraman picked this up off the street. this is an example of what they were throwing at the police. the streets of baltimore erupted in riots today as protesters, many appearing to be high school age, destroyed an unoccupied police car with clubs and baseba

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in short, gray represented one of baltimore's most watched populations. watched by policel and watched by an audience of millions in television depictions. baltimore has served as the go-to example of urban tension and shows like "the wire." or "homicide life on the streets." shows based on neighborhoods dotted with death. this map compiled by the "baltimore sun" shows 211 homicides in the city last year. so far, 2015 has seen 63. these numbers are vastly better than in previous decades when crime was notoriously high. more than 350 homicides in 1993 alone. at the time police recruitment videos used the slogan and you thought your job was tough. >> how would you like it if we quit? >> reporter: it is a dangerous job tado that is difficult to do without criticism. the baltimore police department is working hard to posting photos of outreach efforts. it's an effort of which the mayor is proud. >> i think baltimore has had a very challenging history when it comes to the black community and the police department. we've done a lot of work and made a lot of progress. >> reporter

baltimore. maureen: this is a police car that's arrived at the rite aid in baltimore that we saw being looted so easily a few minutes ago. this is one lone police car. don't see any police on fire. and the looters have left as far as we can tell from this shot. leon: any protesters walking around. maureen: no activity there at all. leon: kevin lewis has a different vantage point. let's get back to him and see what he can see from where he is. kevin? hello, kevin can you hear us? kevin: yeah, leon, are you there? leon: there you go. we've got you now. kevin: all right, leon we just was coming in front of the camera here. i'm going to step out of frame because it's what is happening behind me that is really of interest. we talked to you earlier and we were focusing a lot on the c.v.s. pharmacy that had been looted. as you can see now, that c.v.s. is on fire. i'll walk up to get a little better perspective to be able to appropriately narrate here. we've seen a handful of baltimore fire department ladder trucks come by. one actually ex tended its ladder on to the roof of that c.v.s. it has since pul

it showed white baltimore police officers lifting and carrying gray, his feet dragging on the ground. the officers put him into a police van, where authorities say he was placed in additional restraints. 30 minutes later, after the van arrived in the nearby police station, someone called an ambulance. by then gray was critically injured. his lawyer says gray's spine was 80% severed at his neck, his voice box partially crushed. after being in a coma for a week the 27-year-old died sunday. >>> protests have steadily grown, including a march over the weekend to the baltimore police station where gray was taken. >> all lives matter. >> reporter: police extended their condolences to gray's family, but have not yet told them or the public how gray became so severely injured. exactly why four bicycle officers stopped gray in the first place, or why he ran from them. according to reports, gray had his a history of drug offenses, and police say he was a high crime area known for drug incidents. >> the officers believed that mr. gray was either immediately involved or had been recently involved

the frustration a lot of people are feeling. >> a lot of police officers mobilized to help try to contain what's happening in this part of baltimore from prince george's county police with 30 officers in the area of mondawmin mall, several of them who received some minor injuries. you've got state troopers mobilized and dc police are even standing by monitoring this situation to find out if they too need to be mobilized in some way. >> the problem is these now criminals, because some of them will be brought to justice, we don't know how many arrests have been made, they're hurting the people in their own community. they're hurting the business owners in their own community. so by making a statement like this, they're really hurting themselves. when you see a cvs like that getting burned down, how quickly are they going to be to want to rebuild in that area? how quickly are businesses going to want to come in in that area after seeing this? >> i want to note we were talking about the issue of someone puncturing or cutting a fire hose. russ ptacek just tweeted out a piece of video he got from cnn that shows exactly that. a guy in a

since 2011, baltimore has paid roughly $6.3 million to settle police misconduct claims. baltimore authorities say five of the six officers involved in the arrest of gray have now given statements to the baltimore police. one has not. they remain suspended with pay. baltimore police union attorney michael davey told reporters the officers were right to chase gray after he ran away when a lieutenant "made eye contact" with him. >> they pursued mr. gray. they detained him for an investigative stop. had he not had a knife or in a legal weapon on him, he would have been released. they know what role they played in the arrest of mr. gray. what we don't know and what we're hoping the investigation will tell us is what happened inside the back of the van. he was placed in the transport van. whether he was seatbelted in. something happened, we just know what it was. asked you think any of the six officers to meet it a crime? >> no. based on the information i know, no. nermeen: well, on wednesday, our next guest spoke with residents of the gilmor homes housing projects in west balt

and a baltimore police contingent that has been augmented by additional police from a bunch of neighboring states and jurisdictions. now, when you think about that, lots of police and even troops, it can be nervous making to imagine lots of outsiders, lots of strangers to baltimore flooding this, you know, city on the edge, right? the already very tense streets of this city. it can be nervous making to imagine law enforcement officers being there when they don't know the city, aren't familiar with it and when certainly none of the protesters know them. the day to day in baltimore was celebratory and almost entirely peaceful today. there were big peaceful protests that moved through the city of baltimore late this afternoon and into tonight. there's a big protest that started at penn station, which is the city's main train station in baltimore, and that march went from the train station to baltimore city hall. at the corner of pennsylvania and north in west baltimore where a cvs store was burned and looted on the first night of rioting where some of the largest crowds had gather

baltimore police commissioner saying the city is safe and stable. we certainly hope it stays that way. >> police are moving in shortly after 3:00 10:00 p.m. about four more hours of that curfew. we'll keep you updated as we watch baltimore tonight on fox. you total your brand new car. nobody's hurt,but there will still be pain. it comes when your insurance company says they'll only pay three-quarters of what it takes to replace it. what are you supposed to do, drive three-quarters of a car? now if you had liberty mutual new car replacement, you'd get your whole car back. i guess they don't want you driving around on three wheels. smart. with liberty mutual new car replacement, we'll replace the full value of your car. see car insurance in a whole new light. liberty mutual insurance. >>> fox news alert. protesters are ignoring the 10:00 p.m. curfew in the city of baltimore, as our own geraldo rivera. what's going on geraldo? >> reporter: they started throwing bottles. i won't want to say it's indict the entire crowd, but i saw at least a dozen, at lea

this is not the first time the baltimore police department has been under fire. more than 100 alleged cases of police brutality in three years, an "outfront" investigation tonight, and more breaking news with america's showdown with iran. american war ships on the move tonight. will it clear the nuclear deal? let's go "outfront." >>> good evening. i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, the breaking news. by the thousands, protesters at this hour are taking to the streets. they're calling for justice for freddie gray. that's a 25-year-old black man who died days after being arrested by white police officers. he had been in a coma. gray's family says police severed his spine. we're showing you right now live pictures of the protests in baltimore at 7:00 eastern. these protesters as we said thousands at this hour calling for an end to police brutality. they're also holding signs that read "black lives matter." the crowds at this moment making their way to the site where gray was originally taken into custody. at that time police dragged him into a van. he was screamin

baltimore riots today. he had pointed words for police. we're going to play you comments and why i think he missed the mark. but first surveillance footage from a liquor store being looted last night. >>> this is a fox news alert. we have exclusive video of looters rioting in a store the protests cost millions of dollars citywide forcing many business owners to fend for themselves. joining me is charlie sung to put a price tag on what is going to cost what would it be? >> at this point it's hard to say. it's too early. there are several korean organizations in maryland that are gathering information from the business owners to determine how many businesses have been affected and what the extent of the damage s at this point it's tough say. >> i want to go back to looting video here. i see people are these mostly minority-owned businesses that you represent, sir? >> that is correct. korean owned businesses specifically. >> i'm watching this. you've seen the video. you've shared with us video for the first time. this guy looks like he has a

we have to remember that we still need the police to protect the citizens of baltimore. we don't want this town to become mob town again. >> sheriff are, there was a lot of anger. there just are not answers yet in this investigation about freddie gray and how he died in police custody. what do you say to this african-american community that is angry, confused and now tonight on the streets? >> well it's misguided and i don't think there's a lot of leadership coming from the area the political leadership but some of the community leadership because i think the frustration is misguided. we all want to know what happened to freddie gray. let's face it they didn't know freddie gray. they weren't associated with freddie gray. with the black on black crime that exists in the city of baltimore and i have a few statics, 90% of the suspects are black and they should be frustrated with that. we'll deal with the problems that they have with the police. i think it's worthy of a discussion if not worthy of a riot. let's place the anger where the frustration needs to be and that's with

>> wolf police ramping up their presence in baltimore. western precinct manning the barricades additional officers up the street. gearing up for possible protests as miguel mentioned. what they're going to try to avoid are confrontations like the one we witnessed yesterday when police were swarmed by protesters as they tried to make arrests of two people on the street related to the protest that was an ugly scene, a flash point it lasted only a few minutes, but that's what they're trying to avoid. what they're trying to avoid are agitators from outsiders, this happened in ferguson they're gearing up for it they're warning people not to do it we heard from the police commissioner about it a short time ago. >> to any and all that would seek to bring chaos to our city the people of baltimore will not tolerate it. >> and we spoke to a former police officer from the state police and she talked to us about outside agitators, she has a lot of experience in dealing with them. she said a lot of people come in from outside, they light trash cans on

baltimore. gray died from a spinal cord injury sustained in police custody. his death has sparked daily protests. saturday a large demonstration turned violent. protesters looted stores and clashed with police. more than 30 people were arrested. gray's family has been part of the call for calm in the city. baltimore's mayor has repeatedly said rioting will not be tolerated while supporting peaful demonstrations. clara davis didn't know gray personally but felt she had to be a today's funeral. >> i'm just here to support the cause. i hope that this will be a peaceful ending, you know, after all that's taken place for the last couple of days. >> the white house sent -- [indiscernible] police in baltimore say they will complete an investigation looking into gray's death by the end of the week. craig boswell, cbs news, baltimore. >>> we just lettered that the baltimore police department's criminal intelligence unit has received credible information that members of various gangs, including the black gorilla family and bloods and crypts have entered into a partners

baltimore. we are here to support the police department of baltimore.ste a lot of time talking about personalities and feelings and who might have been concerned about what. i think it's an excellent operation. we are all working together. i'm proud of the joint effort. [ inaudible question ] >> that was a decision made by the commissioner of baseball it did not include us didn't involve us. we didn't ask for it to happen. i am happy there weren't tens of thousands of fans there. things were peaceful and under control. like the curfew we cleared the streets. having tens of thousands of people at the stadium may not have helped. that's a decision they made. we didn't make the decision. anybody else? [ inaudible question ] >> well you know we have spent -- yesterday, i called together our very first day on the job, in addition to getting the law and order restored i met with faith basted leaders and community leaders from all over the state, i mean all over the city and asked for their input and asked questions on how we could help. today, we met with the