. >> reporter: quasi mfume, former congressman and knapp knapp president, is from baltimore. people look at what happened here tonight and they say what on earth does it have to do with freddie gray? >> nothing. violence, looting, burning has absolutely nothing to do with the cry for justice, the investigation or to find out what caused his death. >> reporter: but something tapped this, something is simmering here? >> for 40 or 50 year, real since 1968. >> reporter: african-american men are vanishing from daily life in places like west baltimore because of premature deaths and soaring incarceration rates. andre jolly is himself a convicted felon and recovering substance abuser. >> i have an 8-year-old son and i have a 7-year-old son, and what i'm trying to do right now is be in their lives, be a father, and i think that's a big part of the problem. a lot of the fathers here are even incarcerated or dead. >> reporter: but west baltimore has not given up. father and ex-marine brandon gibson brought his children out today to join others in cleaning up debris in the neighborhood

"outfront," quasi mfume, he's been on the streets with the protesters and also with me carl stokes. i appreciate both of you taking the time. congressman, let me start with you. you just heard that one young protesters extremely upset, when you have that moment next to the commissioner of the police. he's throwing around the f-bomb repeatedly. the commissioner was stoic and did not respond to them. what's your reaction though when you hear that? when you hear what our miguel marquez said that they're angry, they're upset, this is visceral. when you hear the anger on the streets? >> well, it's the anger erer that's been here for the last 40 years. it's just that it's boiled over and now the world is seeing it. it's poverty and that's its basic root. it's disparity, disprivilege among people and a disbelief in the system that it will ever do anything for them. you hear the protests behind me now in cars that have engulfed this whole area downtown. people are trying to express themselves while they can under this curfew and to do that peacefully. those who can't do it peacefully are go