so this is sandtown look at all these houses that are completely boarded up, is that common? of vacant houses. >> reporter: known as relocaters. >> stepping on glass and random computer mouse. >> reporter: christian people who believe the only way to help poor communities is to move into them and become neighbors. >> it helps you to live, you know, on a more equal plane and people and see people you know less of like oh, i'm here, i'm coming in to help you and more like we are neighbors and figuring this out together. ♪ he is a member of new saw and a church that says everyone should have a say in giving strength to suffering. >> we pick up residents that are here i decided to take up residents here. >> reporter: that is the pastor here. >> i've been through so much stuff in my life. >> reporter: he says about 25 mostly white middle and upper class families at his church have relocated to inner city baltimore. you say this church was founded on the principle of incarnation ministry, what does that mean? >> think of the word incarnation and think of christ in heaven and didn't

. >> sreenivasan: in the sandtown neighborhood of baltimore, a woman named marilyn on appleton street takes pride in the garden she's tending on her front porch. pride in the tiny corner of the city she's been able to clean up in the house that has been in her husband's family since 1959. but she is also scared. scared to give us her last name because of the troublemakers in sandtown, an element she suspects is behind the recent riots and looting. she fears retaliation from them for speaking her mind. >> we have drug dealers trying to come on our block down the corner, or whatever, we call the police, they do come, sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. they should have buried that man peacefully, like his family asked, what they did, i think they did because i think they just wanted to steal, they wanted to take. >> sreenivasan: the past two days have been stressful for marilyn, and her blood pressure has gone up, looters destroyed the cvs where she filled her prescriptions. >> i don't have my blood pressure medicine, i don't have my medicine, period. now i gotta find another cvs t

>> yes. >> reporter: you moved into the heart of sandtown. let's keep it real baltimore is one of the top 10 dangerous cities in america. were you scared? >> a little bit. you know like there's scary stuff that happens anywhere in baltimore. there's a lot of ways i stick out. >> reporter: after all, sandtown is 96% plaque. >> reporter: a lot of re-locatators are white, and you are black, and the majority walking around is black. is there skepticism, where people think this is a form of white gentrification. >> definitely. there's a running joke that the drug dealers thought the whites moving in were cops and the cops thought only white folks that move here are drug dellers. -- dealers. >>> this is antoine who says the streets are as hard as they team. >> this intersection changed my life. i shot a man, almost took his life. >> reporter: he spend 3.5 years in prison for the shooting. when he got out he says it was the same new song church community that helped him turn his life around. >> they helped me to realise that i'm part and partial of

sandtown in west baltimore.ock marked by vacant buildings, struggling with higher than average unemployment and poverty, and a robust heroin market. it is a place empty of what usually constitutes a neighborhood. there are no grocery stores, no banks, no restaurants. but plentiful liquor stores. a place seemingly without a future for its young men and women. ray kelley had run-ins with local police as a young man and is now a community activist >> you're dealing with a population here trying to survive, trying to eat. and it's not really about black or white, it's about survival. >> reporter: officers do not have an easy task in patrolling sandtown and similar high crime neighborhoods. the very tactics police employ to serve them are alienating residents like tito dillard. >> you know it's just kind of devastating to know that at the end of the day i would rather put my trust in my neighbor. i would rather call my neighbor in the need of help. rather than someone who is getting paid. >> reporter: a front page st

this is the sandtown winchester area of baltimore, a shooting in the middle of wednesday and no one seems all that surprised. freddie gray was arrested blocks away on april 12th near the gilmore housing project. he died in police custody. again the people who live here say while they're angry they're not all that surprised. >> before freddie gray we had anthony anderson, tyrone west, a young man by the name of george king who was tased to death at the hospital while he was strapped to a gurney. >> what we want to happen, we want all those prosecuted for murder. >> reporter: young people with no jobs and seemingly lots of times are frustrated. some of the cops on the street also feel they need answers now and want to begin the process of mending fences with the community. this is bruce john reporting from west baltimore for wusa9. >> a community vigil and demonstration to protest freddie gray's death are scheduled for tonight and we are there. >>> baltimore police said five of the six officers suspended with pay for the incident have given their statements to investigators. you can see the

the story of sandtown goes a little bit like this.ce 1968 my neighbors in sandtown has been working to rebuild from the stories we all know following dr. king's assassination 50 years ago. and it's for me it's a little personal to the extent that i was born in baltimore in 1968 just a few months after that horrible time in our history. but our community -- i'm so proud of my neighbors today particularly for stepping up and working so hard to reclaim the community, particularly from those who are trying to destroy it. we know these issues behind everything that we're faced with this week are very complex. we're certainly not going to solve those overnight. but from a community perspective, what we're looking for is opportunities to facilitate these conversations and dialogue about these really difficult issues. you know we understand issues of race and social justice in american history context are very, very deep and very very complex. so that's very much a part of where we are today and we still have a long way to go. but from the co

although in sandtown the income level is below the poverty level. young people in sandtown have nowhere to turn. >> if we don't have outlets for these kids more tutors more playgrounds. like i said we -- it's like a wall. if you take an outlet out of a wall, where are you going plug anything? there's no electricity. i want to be this i want to do this. >> no electricity and no energy. how does that sound? economic conditions have failed baltimore's young men and women. over 60% of the population has no high school diploma. freddie gray's eulogy gave a broader picture. pastor jamal bryant said gray "had to feel at age 25 like the walls were closing in on him." baltimore's use needs a way to push back no question about it and maybe this time they've got the attention of the country. joining me this evening, davon love. great to have both of you with us tonight. dr. peterson how do we reverse the hopes and dreams of a neighborhood that has been decimated by economic conditions, and no one has really said that they're going to step up and invest in the

at gilmore elementary school, an elementary school based there k-5 in sandtown. say they've seen at that food pantry in a very long time. since almost the origin of when they began it. the experience that freddie gray allegedly had inside the van sadly isn't unique to him. more and more cases of rough rides in baltimore are being brought to light. we asked frances to investigate, and she joins me back in new york. frances, what did you find out? >> these rough ride also called screentests, cowboy or nickel ride refer to suspects being intentionally banged up in the back of a police van. police say it's not common practice, but the slang terms may suggest it happens more often than thought. as we await this press conference here, once it starts we'll go to it. we want to bring you some instances in the path. let's start with christine abbott 27-year-old assistant library at johns hopkins -- librarian at johns hopkins university. she suing for an alleged 2012 rough ride. here are image of the alleged injuries she sustained. she said she felt like a piece of cargo a

this is the sandtown winchester area of baltimore, a shooting in the middle of wednesday and no one seemsd. freddie gray was arrested blocks away on april 12th near the gilmore housing project. he died in police custody. again the people who live here say while they're angry they're not all that surprised. >> before freddie gray we had anthony anderson, tyrone

in sandtown, freddie gray's neighborhood, as of 2011, one out of five adults are unemployed and half the households made under $25,000 a year. according to a "baltimore sun" investigation, the city has paid about 100 people more than $5 million to settle police brutality cases. how bad are relations between police and this community? >> as bad as good and evil. >> reporter: what does that mean? >> as bad as black and white. >> reporter: what does that mean? >> it's total opposites. they don't care about us, and i know people that-- that-- that will get their house broken into and will not call the police. >> reporter: valerie pool is praying the distrust and resentment doesn't destroy the city. what's next for this city? what do you think? >> um, you know what, sir, i have no idea. >> reporter: baltimore city police tactics have led to a consistent drop in murders. so far this year, just 68. scott, in the 90s, that was a number that routinely topped 300 a year. >> pelley: jeff pegues reporting. jeff, thanks very much. 34 kids were arrested, but not toya graham's 16-year-old michael.

in the sandtown area at a popular metro stop at north baltimore and pennsylvania avenue a maryland transit authority cruiser and a small bus from mta go up in flames. three metro stops around it are closed. a popular waiting point for people in that neighborhood. eight officers as we mentioned received injuries. this officer coming up was carried away by about a dozen officers. he was said to be unresponsive at this point before he was put into an ambulance. again, most of those officers injured had broken bones. a cvs goes up in flames a short time later after dozens and dozens of people had gone into this stores front door and back looting it. all the windows were blown out. a check cashing store too. this is the most massive looting situation that we found. this harry potter about a half hour after the cvs looting situation. broke the doors. all the glass windows shattered and came pouring out too. the clean up on this story will be massive to say the least as is the economic impact from this tragic day and be interesting to see, jim, what you mentioned earlier what nighttime brings and

. >> do you think the democratic party has basically done wrong by the folks of sandtown win chester?i don't know if the party has done wrong. i think all of america has looked the other way and hoped that what we know and see day in and day out would either fix itself or go away, neither of which was going to happen. so it's a matter of talking the talk but not walking the walk. these communities -- people are not stealing because they want to be criminals. they're not walking away and setting cars on fire -- what they're saying is look at me, i exist, i'm not invisible. is it right? no, it's wrong. it's absolutely wrong. and it will be dealt with. that's why men have been all over the streets and i've been with a bunch of them for the last few days trying to talk this thing through. the community needs a conversation. but what they're saying is look at me, i exist. don't look away from me anymore. >> did you vote the wrong way on the crime bill in '94? >> here's the thing about the crime bill in 1994, there was no vote. it was a voice vote. you didn't even have to be there. all in f

the thug element of the community the criminal community in baltimore rather than the people of sandtown where freddy gray was from, taking place in the community. i must say beyond the last few minutes we've heard it spreading beyond this area to the east of the city, five story building which has been set aflame in the east of the city. so i think this is outbreaks of violence running right the way round the city of baltimore. i think from some of the television pictures that it's quieting down but i think what might be happening is it's fanning out around the city. now larry hogan is the newly elected republican governor of the state of maryland and he's given a press conference. he said everyone has the right to protest and express their frustration but lawless gangs of thugs, that's the phrase he used lawless gangs of thugs will not be tolerated. the use of the word thugs is quite deliberate. let's hear more of what governor larry hogan had to say. >> the national guard represents the last resort in order to restore order. look, people have the right to protest. and express their fr

athena jones is in the sandtown winchester neighborhood of baltimore, one of the toughest and poorest neighborhoods in this city also one of the places that freddie gray lived. athena while you were on with me early today on "@this hour," you spoke with the maryland governor larry hogan. what did he have to say to you this morning? >> reporter: that's right. i'm next to a memorial to freddie gray. i asked governor hogan how he thought last night went. i asked him if he thought it was a turning point. he said it was but there were still some areas of concern. take a listen. >> it was a great night. but it's not over yet. there's still a lot of frustrations still a lot of hostility, still anger in the community and people out there that want to make trouble and still some folks out there that want to get things out of control that don't want to do things in a peaceful way like the majority of the people do. >> reporter: the governor said they'll have as many resources on the streets as they need to until they're certain the situation will remain calm and peaceful. john? >> athena jones

she had the opportunity earlier this week to go to gilmore elementary school, sandtown, freddie gray'sghborhood. today they were holding a food pantry for most of the residents. and the principal there, nicest guy ever new to the school said this is the longest line he's ever seen. he hoped that everybody was going to be able to walk away with something at the food pantry. i know the ravens were with the mayor at the other food pantry event. this is the elementary school right there behind the project of freddie gray. k-5. it has been considered one of the poor performing elementary schools in the city. the new principal, new this year, nice nice nice guy. let us come in let us walk around, go into one of the fourth grade classrooms where the mayor had actually been earlier. they were asking why is this happening, when tell stop. funny story -- he's a cause caution principal. the kids are not used to seeing that in this school. they call him principal b. and when he started, one kid said "are you light skinned? " " "he said "i guess i am." the child walked to his buddy and said "see i

after we hear from -- after we left this morning from the command center we went to sandtown which is the neighborhood where freddie gray was from. we met with residents. we walked the neighborhoods. we met with neighborhood leaders and leaders of the naacp at their new headquarters, which had just opened yesterday. we got a chance to talk with some people who were among the worst affected by the civil unrest. i can tell you, they were very thankful for the efforts of the national guard and the maryland state police. they were happy that they were there protecting them and keeping the city safe. i was also encouraged by the optimism that i saw there. and by the number of people that were out helping in the community. we then went to maryland emergency management agency. we held a cabinet meeting to ensure that every single state agency was trying to provide as much assistance and as many resources as they possibly could to the situation here in baltimore and to helping people who were most in need. every single state agency is fully focused on this crisis and they're providing a numbe