to the police. the school-aged children in a clash that began around 3:00 baltimore time this afternoon. two officers remained in the hospital as of last reported two hours ago. one was initially listed unresponsive the number of arrests earlier listed as 27. and in addition we're waiting to hear from freddie gray's family who are said to be shocked and horrified about what's happening tonight. freddie gray died under police custody under circumstances unknown to us we're waisting to hear from freddie gray's family. police have struggled to take control back from as the mayor put it thugs who, as you've been watching are running rampant in parts of the city. here is what our correspondent saw not long ago. >> are you guys watching this picture? did you see that? >> steve? get back get back. get up on the stairs. steve. are you watching this? guys? are they watching this? >> he's coming back. >> steve, are you watching this? >> we're watching and listening to commentary and watching all of this. what

members of the san jose police force were part of the training and of course palo alto police officers were part of the training as well. i talked about other measures. the second measure and it's something that this committee has addressed previously and that has to do with on body cameras. on body cameras should be a priority for this city to create transparency and not just on body cameras for supervisors who are conducting searches et cetera, but really and i will use this word a robust program that provides enough funding not only for the equipment but that's not the major expense. for the storage of the information and anecdotally in the police executive research forum report on body cameras police chiefs have indicated a huge drop in citizen complaints and use of force complaints as a result of having on body cameras. >> ms. hicks understanding you please wrap up so we can get to the public speakers. >> i will wrap up and the third recommendation i have and it's something i am addressing with the mayor's office and that is to adequately fund the office of citizen complaints so t

the newark new jersey police get $76 an hour before fees paid to the police department. las vegas police get $67 an hour pittsburgh 50 new orleans 42 salt lake city $30 an hour. we found that detroit police of all the departments we contacted, commanded the lowest cop for hire rates at just $25 an hour. now, the extra pay can supplement the full-time wages that policemen and women already make. nationwide that averages about $28 an hour. police departments insist this so-called secondary police work is a good way to get more cops out on the street without dipping into city budgets or taxpayer funds. critics point to abuses in places like pittsburgh that ultimately cost a police chief his job. i'll have more on that later in the show. they point to new orleans, corruption-related to cop for hire work triggered a federal investigation and mandated reforms there, but there are no federal laws regulating cop for hire practices. states pretty much leave it up to local police departments to do what they want. paul beaman has the report. >> it is a typical day in downtown salt

to police. including an officer that we showed on our air just moments ago that was being carried out, who could be seen with blood on his face from the rocks and the bricks that had been thrown. we're seeing what looked like potentially tear gas canisters in the streets being kicked around. that's the scene going into night fall is very concerning. with regard to the police department and the credible threat, the police are saying that they have that threat. they put the information out. and clearly they are being attacked, at least in a disorganized way at times on the street. >> do we still have brian on the scene down there? >> reporter: yes. >> in terms of -- we know a lot of these businesses near the mall have been closed in advance of what might be some protests possibly some violence. what can you tell us about how businesses not in the immediate vicinity of the mall have been responding this afternoon? >> well, all we know is what we're being told and that is some businesses say that re

you can see the police lines and the police barricades. this is a car that's been abandoned in the roadway right here. they're not driving anywhere anymore. there have been a lot of rocks flying around here right now and quite frankly, anyone that drives through here right now is making a risky decision i would say at this point. there is a lot of -- here's a car going the wrong way down the street. making a wild turn. he realized he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. we heard a pop. sounded like someone popped his windshield out as he made his way around that corner right now. let's take a look and walk down a little bit farther here, john. we take a look up and you can see up into the mall property the police are guarding things keeping an eye on things up there. right now, police are -- young people have been throwing some stones at the police lines right here. the police shields are up for a reason. and that is because folks are throwing things at them. you take a look now, john, come a little closer. throwing them from a tremen

according to the police. with school-aged children and class that began around 3:00 baltimore time this afternoon. two officers remain in the hospital as of two hours ago. one listed as unresponsive. the number of arrests was listed as 27 but we hope to hear from police just moments from now. in addition waiting to hear from freddy gray's family who are shocked and horrified by what is going on tonight. freddy gray who died in circumstances unknown us to and we are waiting to hear from freddy gray's family as well in the city where police struggled to take control as the mayor put it thugs that want to insight violence. thugs, as you are watching running rampant in parts of is the city. these are scenes from a moment ago. >> get down get back, get back. get up on the stairs. are you watching this, guys? are they watching this? >> coming back. >> are you watching this. >> we were indeed watching. and listening to political commentary and watching as all of this was unfolding. it appears as our understanding of

newark new jersey police command the highest rate before fees paid to the police department. las vegas gets $67, pittsburgh $50. new orleans 42. salt lake city $32. detroit police commanded the lowest cop for hire rates at $25 per hour. the extra pay can supplement winter games that police men and women make that averages about $28 an hour. police departments insist that this so-called secondary police work is a good way to get more cops out on the street without dipping into city budgets or taxpayer funds. critics point to abuses in places like pittsburgh that ultimately cost the police chief his job. i'll have more on that. and they point to new orleans, triggering a federal investigation and mandating reform. there's no law regulating cop for hire practices. states leave it up to local police to do what they want. paul beban has our report much >> reporter: it is a typical day in downtown salt lake city for chief executive fred ross. he's patrolling one of the most dangerous parts of the city. >> you guys want to fight, do it elsewhere. >> reporter: it's a neighbourhood in

police officers talk directly to each other over police radio. i don't understand why when we're being give an timeline we're not being given the actual transmissions so that people know exactly what went on. i did read i have to say i read this in the sun paper, a better explanation of why there was not as aggressive an investigation in the beginning. what i mean by that if you tie into the kga tapes and the transmissions between police officers where people were located and where that paddy wagon was located at certain points in time there should have been video -- if there was an opportunity to collect video that would have shown those intersections from not just the cctv which are the city cameras, but from businesses who often times have cameras directed outside for safety issues. there was -- there was an individual who was quoted in the newspaper saying the police officers didn't come around to ask for the video that was pointed into the direction of the intersection where the paddy wagon made a stop until eight to nine days after freddie

they want the police protection of the rich always want the police protection and meanwhile it's on the backs of the poor except we have the philanthropists that get breaks from the police force. i have been a political activist for 50 years and been in political protests in tokyo, cacutta, glaiveg koa, london, new york, baltimore, british colombia, los angeles and -- [inaudible] has there ever been more police presence at a protest than this town. i also know that the police have quite a bit of money they spend on overtime for that and also on agent provokttories and spies. we know they're getting money to do this to whatress political protest in this country and especially this city and that's all this money is going to be spent on -- [inaudible] put it down in district 1 or in your district -- >> thank you sir. >> -- since the chamber of commerce gives you orders -- >> thank you sir. next speaker please. thank you. >> good late afternoon supervisors. my name is mr. ali and the homeless advocate to encourage you to consider your priorities on budget issues. handcuff -- house keys not

where are the police? >> yeah. i'm not in a position to see your coverage now. i can tell you our first priority is protection of life and that includes the life of our officers and the life of the people in that community. so we're going to do what we can to make sure that our officers are safe that residents in that area are safe and as soon as we're able to ensure everyone's safety we'll move in and do what we need to do to protect property as well. again, this is about having a reverence for life and protecting the lives of our officers and the citizens who live in that area. >> you need reinforcements captain? the national guard? you need police from neighboring communities? from washington, d.c. to come in and help? >> we've been fortunate that we reached out several days ago to our law enforcement partners in the area and asked for assistance's. something we do for a lot of other large-scale events as well. it's routine for the police department to work with our surrounding partners. we've done that

i'm afraid the increased police presence is more police hurassing more people and especially youth of color. we need fewer people thip jails mpt i agree with everything about restoreative justice and transformativegisting and communeky service and people getting out of the jail. ime a nurse so see things through the lens of a community and of people. i only see increased police presence as being detrimental to the helt of both individuals and the community and san francisco. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please >> hello my name is [inaudible] i work with [inaudible] i'm here to oppose the proposal to fund all 23 million to sfpd. in a recent harassment and displatement studyd ofthis is because contact och the police results in being harmed or put in jail. expandeding the budget for the police demonstrates disregard if the things that keep [inaudible] as well asneighborhood residence. as the action of the police sets a precedent of how transwomen are addressed. the city can move 1 police academy and move of sth 11 million saved towards addressing the human rights issu

that's police brass. at the officers and protesters to gauge the situation so they can go back and re-assess. if you took down all the letters and words that are on our screen this could be ferguson. and so the same situation with the officers lined up in front of the police department that's what we're seeing now except we're not seeing the over militarized part. also meeting with the family today and saying as the marchers are out there, what i have told the police department employees is to allow them to march, understand the outrage the pain and allow them to express themselves in their own constitutional way. so i believe the officers have been given the direction and are stepping back. let the marchers protest and have their say today. he told the officers to show a lot of restraint. if you've been watching us live officers had been showing a lot of restraint until that scuffle broke out. they're concerned about nightfall. >> not very long ago the swarming of this police car which at the time seemed

we know, obviously, baltimore police are here. maryland state police. we've heard prince george's county, anne arundel county, also sending reinforcements. however, the governor said that at this point, national guard have not been called. does that surprise you? is that something you think could potentially happen here? >> well it certainly can potentially happen. i was in baltimore when it's happened in the past. it can happen. the baltimore police department has got about 3,000 people in it. and so with contingents from other support agencies this thing has only been going on where there's been some disturbance for a couple of days or so. so right now i wouldn't think it would be something that would be necessary but if it starts spinning out of control and you got more people involved and they start burning i'm sure you will see the national guard in there. leon: the thing is, though joe, the thing is we know that this is not happening in a vacuum. this is happening amidst protests that have been going on for months around the country because of wha

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 n

police cars. and they're describing them as aggressive and violent. >> we want to let you know we have word from the white house. they're monitoring the situation. no word from the president or his spokesperson. they're monitoring the chaotic situation. >> when this first started, there was social media sent out saying that they wanted to start in this neighborhood and then move down towards city hall and there was also a report from the police that they believed three rival gangs had actually -- what the black gorilla family the bloods and the crypts formed and a credible threat they formed a partnership against the police. and may be fueling some of this. this started around 2:00 about 2:00 or 3:00 this afternoon and then in the one neighborhood that tisha was talking about and they were really engaging the police at this time. they were really coming at the police forming in their riot gear sort of a wall of officers and they were throwing bricks and rocks and setting small fires and it was qui

the first time they threw rocks at police? first time they shot at police? started fires and looting? no. this conduct didn't start because you had a law-abiding citizen that all of a sudden got caught up and now i'm going to turn into a criminal. these are people that have all of these lying in wait for this opportunity. some are citizens that live there. some aren't. but to say that they didn't start out in the peaceful demonstrations is something that you cannot say. neither can i. and you're asserting saying look. we're going to wait to riot. no. no. i think there are those. and unless you get the opportunity if freddie gray hit the police officer he would be arrested immediately. we have not had one arrest. no matter what anybody wants to say, fact is that he his vertebrae wasn't broken l being shackled by police and into custody of police they made a mistake and someone should go to jail for it. >> but richard they may. they may. >> he was shackled when the vertebrae was broken. >> you don't know yet. they're investigating. >> exactly. if the opposite

are they there to protect protestors from police or police from protestors? >> reporter: when you talk with them they'll tell you they're to protect the protestors from the police officers. they're there to prevent any friction between the police and protestors. what they say is the police just want some friction to start -- >> based on what? >> reporter: that's what we -- >> what do they base that on? what we saw last night is police officers 15 of whom went to the hospital and folks were throw throwing bottles at them. one officer had a shattered kneecap as a result of a bottle through it. some response we heard of documented by some of the witnesses, by the police force after they had been fired upon. what is their basis to believing the police are out to hurt them tonight? >> reporter: well, frankly, i think they just pull it out of thin air. you're talking with kids and a lot of emotion injected into the environment. so i think they just say things. >> stay on it. want to check back in what is happening at leland's location? >> reporter: we've moved back

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.

aside from people who accused police of being racist is police arrow gans, and you -- arrogance and you saw the case of the police officer addressing a newberg driver, a minority with a level of arrogance which is alarming. address. >> that behavior of that officer is contrary to everything that this department is about. we are in the process of conducting one of the largest training initiatives in the history of this department and in the country. over the next couple of months we have trained 20,000 police officers for three days on all the issues that showed up in that video - the arrogance, the disrespect, the discourtesy, the abuse of language, threats made. there was nothing in that video that i saw that i liked. that behaviour is not the overriding type of behaviour our officers exhibit. when that happens, we judge it forcefully. the good news is with all the videos out there, we are able to document when it happens, and take forceful action and dress it. >> the flipside of what happened over the past year is - was demonstrated tragically with the murder of the two officers. are

looks like a police car. it's going to be -- charles: do you think they'll move in because they want to somehow stop this before it gets dark? it seems like with some of the things we've seen across the country in the recent years, once it gets dark, it's completely out of their control? >> if they want to stop this before it gets dark, they'll need more than these 200 cops. i can tell you right now. now, maybe they have cops on the other side of pennsylvania avenue here. i don't know. but where i'm at, which is where all the activity is, they'll need more than these handful of cops. these people are out here. everybody is throwing bottles. in about ten minutes, these people will clash. charles: hold on right there. we want you to be safe too, man. find something where you'll be pretty safe. i'll ask mike while we're waiting. the showdown looks like it's being set. 200 police officers. 2,000 potential rioters and looters. how will this end up? >> well, if it's handled properly. it will end up with them boxing

you're a former police officer. police in south carolina expected to require to perform cpr or other first aid in a situation like that? >> not just in south carolina. everywhere. after an officer uses force, particularly lethal force, the obligation is to render aid to the extent possible. in a lethal force situation, the officer's first aid might be the only thing that keeps a critically injured alive. first, immediately secure the scene. that's why the handcuffing is not a surprise. second absolutely render aid. >> the other thing i just want to ask you about is we see him handcuffing the, mr. scott and then walking back and picking something off the ground which he seems to drop later by mr. scott. aren't you supposed to keep everything where it is? i've asked this before but isn't this a crime scene that needs to be nfgtinvestigated and photographed would you ever pick up something unless there was a handgun and other people who might run around and pick it up in the neighborhood but if it's a taser or somethin

we saw smaller fires set today, including one police cars -- or excuse me two police vehicles burned. but this large blaze with multiple fire companies responding in baltimore, we don't know if that is related to the rioting, to the protests and to the state of emergency that's been called by the governor. we'll keep you posted as we learn more. there's a lot going on in the news right now and we are keeping an eye on all of it. we'll have several live reports this hour and talking with a city official. we'll be talking with my colleague from here at msnbc, al sharpton, who as an activist, has been at the center of organizing efforts of people killed by police. and he also -- reverend sharpton has time and time again been called on by families of people who have been killed by police and also by local authorities, called on reverend sharpton time and time again to wade into situations to calm down tensions, to stop violence once it has started in communities that are this angry. so we'll be talking with him tonight about his involvement in the story, will you bs about questions how th

here is the rule i had with my police department and my police commission. the first rock, arrested. second rock, arrested. breaking a window, arrested. we always had more than enough police. if we didn't show them all we hid them. i need a thousand people for this demonstration i would give them 2,000. >> and strategically you would have a thousand up front and a thousand reinforcements. >> hidden in places where we thought we were going to direct them. you protect the buildings and as a consequence i had eight years of no riots after two riots in four years. >> they knew better. >> i also had a community called washington heights which had a terrible riot in 1992 and a blackout in 1999. there was not a single crime committed that night. that community went from being a high crime community to a good community. i would ask the politicians asking about the terrible con -- conditions dark dash the economic decisions they have been in charge of baltimore. this is a democratic city -- >> since 1999. >> o'malley was the governor for eight years.years. if those p

we've heard of another police injury. 15 police have already been injured. as the sun goes down in variably whatever police protesters go home because it gets dangerous out here and that's when the violence truly increases, sean. >> i have shawny over here. my name is leland vitter. it's nice to meet you. >> hi. >> reporter: you're the only sign i've seen out here. are you a little bit scared? >> no. >> reporter: are you scared of the police? >> no. >> reporter: and you're not scared of the protesters? >> no. >> reporter: why not? >> because there is a lot of people. >> reporter: it has to break your heart. >> it does. i feel so bad because i know this doesn't have to happen. everybody gets in trouble, but they don't have to kill everybody about everything. >> reporter: is this about freddie gray or the deeper problem in baltimore? >> this is not just freddie gray. i've watched so many of our people get killed. i'm just tired of it and i have to do something. >> reporter: it looks like there may be some problem coming down the alley here. we just saw the pol

bricks thrown at police. injuring at least one police officer. some are also hurling bottles at police as they tried to disperse the crowd. after the curfew went into affect, police responded to that crowd and firing pepper spray and pellets at the crowd. yesterday arriving and injured 20 officers, one critically. police say 200 adults, 34 juveniles have been arrested during this issue z the rioting, 150 cars were burned. so far, we have not seen that type of violence thankfully tonight. baltimore commission commissioner warning people about obeying curfew saying no one should be on the streets after 10:00 p.m . unless they're going to work or have a medical emergency. protests have remained peaceful for a week until yesterday, that is when riots broke out, violence, beginning just hours after freddie gray's funeral. he that 25-year-old young man died after being severely injured while in police custody. joining us now from the streets of baltimore is rick levinthal. we have to say now, as of this moment, just after midnight good people of baltim

being in police custody in a closed door of a baltimore police transport.there you see his pictures. that's where these protests started. the funeral today. back the panel, juan arc lot of people spoke out at the funeral about the situation md:soo. >> jesse sackson says we don't need more police we need jobs. i did a panel this week for the museum of african-american history and cultures here in washington. on that panel, there was a law professor and she said we need police to be more of a commune force. and all of a sudden the police on the left of the panel said we need less police. we need more mental health services and more jobs. i thought this is an invitation the people who need police the most are the people in the community who are victimized by the thugs and the criminals. >> which is interesty we are not seeing a bigger p >> i don't understand it. we are waiting for the mayor to explain it. or somebody. it's mystifying. >> what you do is the use the national guard to establish a perimeter and the local blis police who know the neighborhoods, who

while in police custody. we see rioters throwing rocks and other objects at officers and police throwing things back. cars are burning. at least one store's window broken. mass transit shut down. more from the scene straight ahead. >> we are on top of breaking news in baltimore. protesters and rioters are in the streets hurling objects back and forthwith police. this is a look right now at the scene arrive where we understand rioters are in fact looting a cvs. sky fox is over all of this. these clashes started with police shortly after the funeral for freddie gray who died from injuries suffered while in police custody. here's what happened just a short time ago. rioters throwing rocks and other objects at officers. officers throwing some objects back including pepper balls and we understand some smoke bombs. some officers are hurt. one unresponsive. and the university of maryland baltimore campus has shut down. so has public transportation. it's evolving situation. we'll continue to follow this story and kee

police officers. so those police officers may have very well been walking into a trap at one point. so it was better to be safe than sorry? >> there's a possibility that that happened also. this mayor tried to be so politically correct, they messed this whole operation up but we'll probably never know. the point is they did this well to protect life and to protect the safety of the neighborhoods to a degree. obviously, they failed when it came to the destruction. >> thank you so much. we appreciate it. >> you're very welcome. >> it is 9:10. we have more on our top story, the riots, baltimore, protesters were on the street at 11:00 in the morning. we'll take you live to what's happening right now. >> the new surveillance photos police want you and your family to see so that you can help find her. >>> but first, a look across the country's weather all day. [ male announcer ] approaching medicare eligibility? don't put off checking out your medicare options until 65. now is a good time to get the ball ro

mentality among police.my: misconduct settlements involving baltimore police officers have cost the city more than $6 million since 2011. one victim, barbara floyd, told the baltimore sun that a detective ground her face into the concrete in 2009. >> i stood by the tree outside the door with my back facing the street. all of a sudden, i feel arms around my neck. so i was struggling, because i didn't know who it was. i was screaming when i could get off of me. leave me alone. why are you doing this? they never answered my questions. all they do is tell you to shut the hell up. >> march 2009, barbara floyd was watching a disturbance outside her home when she said a police officer grabbed her. >> he put a leg in the small of my back. he was grinding my face to the pavement. he kept telling me to lay down. i was already down. amy: barbara floyd received a settlement for $30,000. so you're the former president of the baltimore city council, lawrence bell. more than 6 million dollars for police misconduct over the

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

that's a police car. >> that's a police cruiser and there's a police officer inside. we do not know how he's doing at this point. we know he's not part of the earlier tally where we told you seven officers were injured and one unconscious many with broken bones. there's a police officer calling for help as the teenagers or protesters were destroying this car. >> help does apparently show up but perhaps we don't know if it was in time to keep that officer from being injured. >> you can see here if you look to the right side of your screen officers sort of taking down what looks like one of the protesters there just to the right, now there's two officers on that person right behind a car. >> he's fighting them. >> he's fighting. and this is what has been occurring for the last two hours and 20 minutes. baltimore under siege. a protest moving through the city, starting in west baltimore heading all the way downtown where police have now set up a perimeter trying desperately to keep these protesters from getting any further in to downtown baltimore as there is an orioles

protesters threw water bottles at police, police tried to move them back. there were flash grenades there was a lot of smoke. there has not been a significant amount of violence. certainly it is tense. adam may is not far from the intersection. what are you seeing and hearing? >> i saw a man custody along the police line that formed here at the center. so that went into effect at 10 o'clock. orders were given that people were supposed to clear the street. a small group of spokes did not do that. the police department threw the smoke grenade. the crowd dispersed. a few seconds ago we wondered what are they doing, and an individual individual came out of the middle of the line, police grabbed him. he is now behind the police line in custody, taken away. what you see are hundreds of police officers here. they have formed a v shape at the intersection that has a strange effect for a dyeing ag knoll street. looks like they'll go in both directions. that will be my speculation because of heavy police equipment that is brought out here. and right behind the police

that they police. and so we don't want outside. outside agitators don't do it but quite frankly, the police department they look like outside agitators to us. and we want all of them to help us keep our community safe. and to do that i think you need to get local police officers, who look like us who went to school with us and who can relate to us. but otherwise, they're not going to get the results that you're looking for now. i believe that the police have got to do a whole lot too, but right now, we need to fix it from the inside, the baltimore city police department. >> the fact that the mayor and the police chief, there seems to be a disconnect reverend west even though they're african-american. i think that a lot of people don't understand, that there are different levels of communication and class and all, inside of any community, and it's no different in the african-american community. everyone is not the same. >> i agree. i agree. everybody's not the same. and i think that's the problem now. a

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from making sure, that no more police officers get injured. >>> we're watching, i'm not sure police formation here in full riot gear. starting to move forward now. >>> i want to keep my eye on this, to see what might develop we hope the young people have the good sense to back away and get on, to other things here. but, and taking a bit of a stand, this is their holding position and they're going to maintain this position and then move forward. >>> we anticipate that when they do make that move, they'll be using some teargas and, at least, it looks like, the young people are starting to move away. >>> let's take a break and come back with more of this just because i'm away from my desk doesn't mean i'm not working. comcast business understands that. their wifi isn't just fast near the router. it's fast in the break room. fast in the conference room. fast in tom's office. fast in other tom's office. fast in the foyer [pronounced foy-yer] or is it foyer [pronounced foy-yay]? fast in the hallway. i feel like i've been here before. switch now and get the fastest wifi everywhere. comcast

she has been critical of police but has been critical about police abuse.n. >> and what's the reaction over there in baltimore to this wjla report that freddie gray actually died inside that police van as it was driving around? >> reporter: people don't even -- >> that the cause of death -- >> reporter: right, right, wolf. people don't even like to ask you to ask the question, was it self-inflicted? was it he can sesive force? how could it be self-inflicted? they believe that is beyond the realm of possibility. they're not reacting to it very positively. they want to seep the entire report come out for everything to be investigated so that then they can judge on the merits, on the facts when everything is revealed. >> all right, don, thank you very much. don will be back, by the way, as usual at 10:00 p.m. eastern later tonight. a special edition of "cnn tonight." that's when that curfew goes into effect. much more coming up with don. we're standing by for the news conference. the governor of maryland the city police commissioner the commanding general of t

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police officers are black. >> your typical police officer in the united states is a white male from a lower middle class background who is likely not college-educated. >> and what's also becoming clear is that the ethnicity of many cops hired by local police departments doesn't reflect the neighborhoods they serve. in ferguson, missouri, 83% of the police force is white, while 67% of the population is black. in north charleston, 80% of the city's police department is white but nearly half of its residents are african american. that racial gap is found in hundreds of communities around the nation and to a lesser extent it's also happening here in the city of sarasota, florida. officer juan sanchez is a 15-year veteran of the city of sarasota police department. >> a lot of folks see sarasota as this really nice city with good schools good tax base but the reality is that a lot of the city is low-income. >> almost a quarter of sarasota's population, 22%, live at or below the poverty line. and many of them live here, in a neighborhood called newtown. >> i rode with a few officers that are

after showing the police he had a badge he was in effect a police officer bureaucrat listed and trumped up kaiser charges he beat his case now they're trying to fire him how deep rooted is this you know what i'm saying here's a police officer okay anyway, he they trying to take his badge and we would like to look at this deeper if we can. >> thank you, mr. district attorney's office. >> next speaker. >> is there any public comment? further. >> please come on up. >> anyone here for public comment line up. >> no, no, sir. >> we're trying to get everybody up to wants to speak. >> greetings madam chair and chief suhr david elliott losing with the city and county of san francisco mental health board and advocate for the sro collaborative i'm here to talk about the crisis interference training i sits on the oversight committee and trainer as well in the march 167 training the board training i taught a couple of modules but i attended the 40 hour training as a community member to see how it is going i want to commend the lieutenant for doing an outstanding job if the commissioners are interest

the autopsy police keep citing the police saying the autopsy shows no force. the only document to support that claim at this point. that too, has still not been released to the media or the family. brian todd begins our coverage out on the streets of baltimore. brian, protesters blocking streets already early this evening. what are you seeing now? >> reporter: we are indeed seeing that erin. protesters have blocked several major intersections here in baltimore. they're getting louder and growing in number as we proceed toward the baltimore inner harbor one of the most popular tourist destinations in the city of baltimore and of course in teaching as people are getting off work there are probably going to be a lot of people where the protesters are headed. they've blocked several intersections, playing a cat-and-mouse game with local police. they wanted to get away from the police barricades at the police precinct so they started marching. the police would sometimes catch up with them and lead them. then the protesters would take another turn to get away from t

they're going to put up police barricades at the police precinct.he national organization of black law enforcement executives. he is also a key member of president obama's task force on 21st century policing. what should the police you just saw brian say the protesters are blocking traffic on the streets of baltimore. what should they do about that? >> i think it's one of those situations where i'm going to hope that they're going to be patient with this crowd, but yet at the same time, they have the responsibility of maintaining a certain amount of peace so people can peacefully protest. but, sometimes you have to be a little lenient and allow people to do what they do to express themselves and it appears that that's what they're doing right now, wolf. >> the attorney working with the police officers who have been suspended. six of them have been suspended. that attorney told "baltimore sun" the city in his words, is lucky that they got statements from five of the six officers involved in the arrest. does that sound like cooperation to you when you

so baltimore police do have extra reinforcements police from throughout the area.so have police from out of state heading down including from new jersey. >> exactly. new jersey state troopers governor christie sent about 150 of those down there today. so what we do know right now earlier we had told you baltimore schools would be open tomorrow. however, officials there said depending on what happened tonight that could change. so we haven't heard anything that would change that not but maybe given in least this situation that could change as we continue to look at that line of police officers there with riot gear as it pulls back there. that's where a lot of the media and the demonstrators are. we'll stay on t ♪ >>> we continue to stay on. to breaking news chaotic scene in baltimore. here's live look from the ground as we talked about police advancing now on some of these rioters and demonstrators and protesters as there is a curfew in effect. it went into effect about 45 minutes ago. but some of these rioters and demonstrator doctors not go home they started throw

and, the police held a straight line and didn't do anything to stop it. >>> is it your sense that, police have -- have this situation under control or is it -- >>> no. >>> it's growing out of control. my -- city on fire. "the baltimore sun," have called it a war. which it is. we have the military vehicles, and national guard, has been on alert, and state police helicopters are flying around, and i root -- this is really bad. the police have just lost control of the city. >>> what i'm trying to understand here, in covering this story. >>> do you have an explanation when you're talking to your friends about this, asking you questions about how this is, gotten to this place, what is it that you say to them, in terms of the reporting on this story it seems to me, the idea that there were questions that seem pretty straight-forward, talking about the freddie gray case and straight forward questions have gone unanswered and that does not explain away, what we're seeing here. >>> but it does explain a level of frustration. >>> is that fair? >>> there's beening engagement with the mayor's office

as well as a police wagon. it took a little while for fire trucks to get there. hopefully they'll be able to get a fire truck there. >> you have to wonder did they get there in time to make any arrests? were there any people still there when the police showed up there? >> this assembling of police officers you're currently seeing they were actually pushed back a little further. they've slowly progressed and made their way toward that area. i was monitoring this earlier online and 5 minutes ago they were pushed further up. they clearly have some kind of tactical reasoning where they're slowly moving forward to get this crowd dispersed. >> i'm wondering as we see this play out in

it seems like most of the people are police. and the people behind the police lines. there are a few ahead of the v. formed by 100 or more. again, i'll ask you what i asked some other reporters. how many people who are not reporters are left in the area? >> i wouldn't say more than a handful. i'm looking down north avenue downtown. the street is largely clear. there are a few vehicles people way off in the distance. but the streets are cleared, at this point it seems like a waiting game. the force has been here all day in the last 48 hours. it's a waiting game at this point. >> as you talk to people throughout the day, what were you hearing from them and what were you hearing about the police response? well overwhelmingly the response we heard was a hope that they'd be allowed to say what they needed to say here this is the focal point the intersection saying what they needed to say, and it would be done in a peaceful manner and there would be no repeat the chaos that tore the city apart, and some of the more dramatic pictures was of the cvs that was looted and burnt.

police and protesters out in force. the breaking news tonight, less than a day after the city's mayor and police chief tried to get out in front of it contain it tamp it down protest over a man's death in police custody, appears instead tonight have grown. marchers who had been driven way last evening we rainy weather came out today in force, demanding answers to how freddie gray ended up with fatal spinal cord injuries after being arrested on the morning of the 12th. mr. gray's mother overcome with emotion, collapsed during the march, could not go on. her grief matched by a lot of others' strong emotions tonight on the streets, including disbelief, mistrust and obviously a lot of anger. we're going to speak in a moment with baltimore's mayor and with our panel of experts about all the unanswered questions surrounding freddie gray's death. but first, let's go to miguel marquez with the protesters in the city of baltimore. what's the latest? what's happening? >> well it's not entirely clear what is happening. they were j