This as well. What are you seeing, miguel . Reporter well were seeing the acts of defiance in the neighborhoods around the areas where people were earlier. We actually flew down to south baltimore, because we understood there was some rioting down there. There is not. I want you to look up the street here. This is pennsylvania avenue. This is the street that we marched down on saturday all the way down to downtown. That is where the phalanx of officers are starting to move down along with heavy equipment. And if you come around this way, this is pennsylvania avenue. You can see, its been trashed, to some degree. All the trash cans loun in the streets, to try to block the streets. And in the streets themselves there are individuals who are defying police orders. The police cars are roaming through the area. They are announcing to the individuals that they see in this area that it is time to get off the streets. Here we have yet another Armored Vehicle coming up. Weve seen them from Montgomery County from Anne Arundel County from baltimore county. You can see this one, several of them were hit by paint in recent days and eggs and just about everything else. But still a lot of cars on the streets and still a lot of individuals on the streets that police are trying to get home to get them to go home but mainly having a very heavy force. When we first got out of the car about 5, 10 minutes ago, there was a very heavy smell of pepper spray. You could feel it in your throat. That seems to be dissipating. They dont seem to be using that anymore. They are holding in place, taking a few steps every now and again, moving into these neighborhoods. We just went by Western District which had been the focal point for a lot of the peaceful protests over the last 14 days or so. They have pushed back even farther now, about two blocks the security perimeter around that police station. The site where freddie gray was arrested which is also a hot spot around here almost no one there, but there are people in the neighborhood saying that they are going to stay out and defy police orders. Don . Miguel i want you to stand by. Well need you throughout the evening. I want to get back now to cnns ryan young whos been covering the story for us and have been out on the streets of baltimore. Ryan take us to your location to tell us what youre seeing . Don, we are down west north and this was the rally point after we had to run away from that gas. Tear gas hit us it was very strong. It was hard for us to breathe. That seemed to push a lot of people who were hanging around this back end away. Now, weve had a few people now come back out, after that gas has dissipated but once it got into your lungs, there were a lot of people who were saying they were not going to leave, and that really changed their minds. Its hard to breathe. In fact you faced that before so you understand what im talking about, how it gets your eyes and your lungs. Right now, theres a few people hanging out, playing some music in the distancing over here but a lot of Media Standing down this way. Theyve cleared out the streets remarkably in the last 30 minutes or so. Weve had police in small patrol units kind of working their way through the side streets, just to make sure none of the larger crowds were hanging around anymore. It has really changed in the last hour. Throughout the day we werent really messed but that last hour, you could tell that people were getting angry about the idea of a curfew and voicing their opinions to us as we were Walking Around with our camera. Now after the gas has been spread, people have definitely started running home and theyre no longer here in the streets. All right. I want you to stand by ryan young. I want to get to cnns Jason Carroll now. Jason also out on the streets. Jason, take us there. Reporter well just a few moments ago, we heard one of the Commanding Officers walk up and down the line here telling them to hold their position. We were standing on this corner that you see over here and one of the officers said, reporter, this corner is now ours move. So thats exactly what we did. We moved off that corner. Its calm now here at least for the moment here at pennsylvania and north, where weve been all day, ever since early this morning. Just down the side street here we did see a small number of people come out, throw some projectiles, and run back down a small alley there. We did hear also at one point, that more reinforcements would be brought in. But at this point, it doesnt seem to be necessary, at least, not from where we are, not for right now. I know a little earlier, don, you heard me talk to one of the Community Leaders who was walking up and down this front line that you see here telling people to go home, talking over the loud speaker, telling people to Pay Attention and to be Pay Attention to the curfew that was in effect at 10 00. And then i saw her just a few moments ago, she had tears in her eyes. It was heartbreaking, actually to see that. Because she tried to desperately to prevent Something Like this from happening. Still, i think some people will look at this and say, not as bad as it could have been. The Police Response out here very measured considering what was going on because at one point when we were standing out here there were a number of people throwing glass bottles, they were throwing water bottles, other things at these officers. They kept their line and they were measured throughout the night. Don . All right. Thank you very much Jason Carroll. Jason, stay with us, as well. I want to get to my colleague, brian todd, cnns brian todd. Brian, tell us what youre seeing and where you are. Reporter don, we are approaching the intersection where were seeing a large crowd of people kind of in a standoff with police here at pennsylvania and north avenues. Trying to make our way a little bit closer in here to the police. This is a large phalanx of Police Officers here as we make our way. Somebody is the officers are getting commands here. Im not sure exactly what theyre doing, but, you know, we were here earlier, we were also out earlier, marching with a couple hundred protesters who started here by the way, and marched several miles around this gillmore neighborhood of west baltimore downtown and then back here and it was a very dynamic situation. It did get tense. There were volunteers out here earlier, don, who were keeping the crowd back from police and were telling young people as the curfew approached to leave, and almost physically you know, moving the young people out of the way. The children out of the way. Getting them down the street towards their homes. And it appeared to be a more festive atmosphere a more responsible atmosphere than weve seen in the last few minutes. Im not sure exactly what escalated the situation now, but it is a departure from what happened earlier. And as jason mentioned a short time ago, it seems to have calmed down now and the Police Response has been fairly measured and the crowds response in backing off has been measured as well. We have to say, at this point, don. All right. I want you to stand by brian todd great reporting from all of our guys who are out there on the streets. Weve got this covered for you here on cnn. It is 11 minutes after 7 00 an hour and seven minutes, baltimore has been under a curfew. They want everyone off the streets. Theyre allowing the media to be on the streets, but it appears that not everyone is taking that in stride and some people are defying those orders. I want to get to my Law Enforcement expert right now, joining me is Neil Franklin and also cedric alexander. You heard what Miguel Marquez said. Miguel marquez said its is a big show of force. A big show of force. Was that the right thing to do all along . Should that have been done earlier . A bigger show of force . Well you can always monday morning quarterback it. And i think we discussed this before about yesterday. And being prepared. What type of intelligence they had, and you know which would dictate how many officers you would deploy where we had the schoolchildren amassing up at mondawmin. Obviously, they didnt have enough people. I think thats quite evident. We didnt have enough arrest teams. We didnt have enough people to hold the line. But todays a different story. We learned from yesterday and i think police are at their ready. We have the numbers here. We have the numbers up at penn north. And theyre going to do what they need to do but theyre going to gauge it according to what the citizens do. Look at the manpower and the equipment were seeing here. Yeah when you know in cases like this don, when you have adequate and in this case more than adequate resources and personnel, you can have a great success. Theyre having a good success tonight. They have a good show of strength and theyre very tempered in their movement and very professional as well too. Im very hopeful that throughout tonight, things are just going to continue to progress the way that they are. Very positive. This is where Miguel Marquez is. Miguel what are you seeing . Talk to us . Reporter well these are very heavily armed and uniformed Police Officers for the most part but they are the National Guard of vehicles. These are also state troopers in the vehicle that youre looking at right now. They are coming in to reinforce the police ranks that are here just south of north avenue down pennsylvania avenue. They are unloading, and if you come over this way, you can see the large number of vehicles that are actually moving into the area. We have seen police cars moving through this area of gillmore homes, seven, eight, nine ten Police Officers with their lights on moving through slowly announcing telling people to go home telling them theres a curfew on and now all of the force is beginning to concentrate here. You also have the Armored Vehicle here. Over here you have a mrat probably leftovers from either afghanistan or iraq. Very very heavy vehicles lots skplots of force here. They are going to make a big show in this neighborhood. This is the place. A few blocks over there, freddie gray was arrested. A few blocks later that way was the Western District where she was eventually driven and where they had to transfer him into an ambulance the minute he slipped into a coma and never recovered. This is the area showing the most defiance. Defiance. At the moment you can see the level of force that the city of baltimore and the state of maryland is bringing to bear here. State troopers out here tonight, don. Miguel are they letting you anywhere near that line . Can you walk down there or will they not let you do it . Reporter we can walk. Heres the issue. If we walk further up to north avenue we are going to be behind their lines, and then its going to be difficult for us to move. They are going to form along here and probably start moving down toward this way, because you can see, there are people in the streets. Ive seen people walking their dogs ive seen people on their bikes. Everybodys kind of staring at everybody, waiting to see who blink. Theyre hoping these civilians will blink on their own and just go home. A lot of civilians in this area say, were not going to do it. I think it will be a lot of that throughout the night, trying to get people into their homes, trying to use as much a show of force as possible to get them to do what they want to do. Don . And they appear to be moving into place right behind you there, miguel. Miguel marquez, keep an eye on it. Well keep an eye on it ourselves. Well get back to you in just a moment. I want to bring in someone now who grew up here in baltimore, maryland. That is mr. Montel williams, the host of the Montel Williams show and hes joining me live. What do you think of whats going on here in your hometown . Ive been listening to the reporting all day earlier. I was in boston earlier, trying to keep up with cnns been doing a great job of covering the story. The one thing ive got to tell you, maybe a little piece of a lot of the people who have been speaking in the last 15 minutes have forgotten, all day long the seeds were planted that have given you what youve gotten tonight. Whats happening this evening, theres some civil unrest but this is minimal what happened yesterday and what could have happened tonight, had not the leadership in boston stepped up to the plate the way they did today. Starting with the lawyer mr. Murphy. You know congressman came in cummings who came in who was on the street. The clergy from every side of the community, who have come together been out in the streets, speaking all day long. So the seeds were planted today. And the police were doing an unbelievable job, but youve got to give it up to the communiy. If you remember when i spoke last night, i said unequivocally, you know this is not the baltimore i know. There are 600,000 residents in that city. And right now, youve seen two people arrested this evening. And what is there a scattering of a couple hundred people on the streets, who are going to be defiant no matter what was going on. So baltimore needs to get a lot of props. The leadership in baltimore needs a lot of props for step stepping up to the plate. So am i disappointed right now there are some people on the street who are choosing to make sure they paint the picture of what their future is going to look like tomorrow morning from behind a jail cell . Yeah im disappointed. But am i really really pleased with and proud to say that i was born in baltimore, i have family thats in baltimore, i just visited my mother in baltimore two days ago, im proud of the city and proud of what theyre doing. And listen its really its a lot less people out than 10 00. And we saw this you know, images like this in ferguson turned much more violent, though and i spoke to i dont know if you saw the interview of the governor and the mayor last night, it was a bit contentious, but people wanted answers. What are we seeing different today . Today they realized hey, look weve got to get this under control. Lets think back to ferguson. When the troops and police came in, they came in locked and loaded aiming weapons at people coming in with the attitude that they were the enemy. Im looking at a police force that is trying their best made up of women, men, africanamericans, asians hispanic every nationality under the sun is represented in those uniforms and they are, right now, just even in their demeanor you can see them when the people are coming up to them throwing things at them. Theyre not defiantly looking at them like theyre a bunch of bad you know whats. Theyre looking at them with respect and saying listen you know 10 00 is coming its time to go home. And even their response right now needs to be applauded. This is an example for other cities to prepare themselves for, in case an incidence happens in this way. Yeah they made mistakes. Lets secondguess only one, right . Mistakes were made. But tonight but they got it together. Youre looking at the response. They got it together they heard from the people not only here in baltimore, but around the country, get your acts together and it appears that they did. As you were speaking montel i have two Law Enforcement experts standing next to me and a sea of shaking heads in agreement with you. First, neil. Yeah so two things i want to two points that i want to make. Number one, what montel said the true champions of tonight of the hour are the citizens and how they came together. Yes, the leaders of those communities, but the citizens from the neighborhood who came together. The second thing regarding the police and what theyve been able to do and montel spoke to this the difference in their demeanor i think a significant piece to this is firstline supervision. Those managers out there among the Police Officers who were giving them instructions and telling them hey, keep your exposure maintain your exposure. And that leadership that were seeing at the first line level there on the streets tonight, i would like to see that going forward, as we get through this and get back to some sort of normalcy and that leadership on the streets, day in and day out, working with the men and women in the neighborhood. Thats what i want to see. Don, please please don, im so sorry, could i please just echo that . Because there were some clips that you had with the Police Officers behind you that you guys from cnn, you should go back and look at the this tonight and pull out some of those pieces that show those Police Officers even with people being silly, they were smiling, their demeanor was entirely different than any confrontation ive seen before that. And mr. Neil is exactly right. I also failed to mention, there were some there were a couple ladies that were in the street that you saw, constantly moving young people around. There were regular members of the community who were jumping in all day long saying what are you doing, dont do this . Correct, breaking up little confrontations. Again, like i said last night, ill say it again, my city stood up. You know im proud to say im from baltimore. I live in new york now, im proud to say im from baltimore. They stood up to the test. Everybody from the congress to the senate straight on down to the mayor and the Police Department youre a proud man right now. I am. Sorry. Thank you, montel. And you know all of us lets for all of us as americans, don, we should be proud tonight, because what were seeing and what we have seen all day long is a community and Police Coming together to prepare for this night of curfew. And that has not happened in the pass. Looking last night going back there has seen this confrontation. You saw people come out into the community, work with their police. The thing is if youre watching at home and even the gang members said that. And if youre watching on social media, you get you get a completely different idea of whats going on. I said to those guys you guys are being credited for, better for worse, for starting this. They said we had nothing to do with it. That was twitter, that was social media. We donate do thisidnt do this. They said we dont need to rob stores. If were true gang members, and they were they dont make their money that way. They pay money through the drug trade. And its a completely different idea. And the drug trade has been zrurpted. Montel thank you. Stand by guys. Montel thank you very much. Were here in your hometown and we appreciate you joining us and giving us your perspective of here where you grew up. Don, thank you. Well be back with more live from baltimore youre quite welcome. Live from baltimore where a citywide curfew is in effect tonight. Dont go anywhere. Our breaking News Coverage continues right after this. Theres some facts about seaworld wed like you to know. We dont collect killer whales from the wild. And havent for 35 years. With the hightest standard of animal care in the world our whales are healthy. Theyre thriving. I wouldnt work here if they werent. And Government Research shows they live just as long as whales in the wild. Caring for these whales, we have a great responsibility to get that right. 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Don, you mentioned police trying to get the upper hand at least in this section of baltimore. It looks like they have for the moment. We are on the opposite side of the barricades where we were just a moment ago, and where miguel and jason were reporting. Near the intersection of pennsylvania avenue and north avenue this massive line of Police Officers clad in riot gear. I count more than 30 of them going from one end of this block over here and theyve got bear cat vehicles very heavily Armored Vehicles to get Police Officers in and out of these situations. And again, the police forming an absolutely solid phalanx of officers here across north avenue. We did see preparations earlier for something that could come tonight. We saw one officer actually on top of that roof with binoculars kind of scoping out the scene. So these Police Officers here have been preparing for this all day and since last night. And interestingly enough don, just 24 hours ago, ill have our photojournalist, frank, swing our camera down here. You can see how clear it is now, not a soul in sight. 24 hours ago, that intersection there had a burned out car, smoldering in the middle of it. We walked ail around that area. We saw a tavern being looted. We saw a liquor store being looted. We were in the midst of people throwing objects all over the place. It was absolute chaos. No Police Presence down there. And now look at it 24 hours later, this street is empty. At least for now, don, the police do have the upper hand in west baltimore, in one of the most violent intersections over the past 24 hours. Yeah. And, you know, we were very critical last night of the Police Response of the mayor, of the governor and i think its important to point out tonight, that theyre doing a really good job, and, you know, thats how things change. It was warranted last night. Tonight, theyre doing a good job. It appears to be holding. I want to talk now to my colleague, rachel nichols, because the Baltimore Orioles postponed their game tonight. The team held a practice at camden yards earlier, but for the first time in major league history, tomorrows game will be closed to the public. Rachel nichols is here now. She is cnn and Turner Sports anchor for us and she joins us with more. So rachel tomorrow, games going to be played without fans. Explain how significant that is. Yeah Major League Baseball has nearly a century and a half history, don, and this is the first time that they will play a game with the doors closed essentially. Now, its not going to be played in secret. The game will be televised, you could hear it on the radio, but there will be no paying fans in the stands. Its going to be a little bit surreal for those guys but they just felt that after talking to everybody involved this was best for the safety of not only the potential fans out there, but stadium workers, they were already going to have to change the game from a night game to an afternoon game because of the citywide curfew. And you have to remember last night, they didnt scandalconditional the game until about 45 minutes after the first pitch. You have this incredibly strange situation where players are getting ready for the game in the clubhouse with the television on watching other parts of the city basically in riot and being on fire, and feeling incredibly uncomfortable. There were police in riot gear on babe ruth plaza, which is the place that the fans come into the game. It wasnt a situation that anyone felt was right, to be playing baseball. Obviously, things have started to calm down in baltimore. They feel like they can have the game tomorrow but they still didnt feel it was safe to have a large public gathering like that. So theyve not only decided to have this game with the doors closed tomorrow theyre going to then move the rest of the home stand, theyre going to be playing tampa team down in st. Pete. It was supposed to be a home series for the orioles. Instead, theyre going to play it down in florida. Okay rachel. You know you heard Montel Williams he was just on. He said that he was in the community today, it kept the streets from getting violent tonight, members of the community kept the streets from getting violent tonight. Local sports hero and legends really pled for peace today. I dont know if you saw this from Raven Ray Lewis here retired, he posted this video on facebook. Lets take a look at it. Baltimore, get off the streets kids go home stay home you dont have you dont have no right to do what you doing to this city too many hardworking people built this city. We put this city together we put this city on our back we with you we know whats going on we know the problems we know there was wrong done we know were not getting the right justice we know all these answers but rioting in our streets is wrong. Its dead wrong rachel hes not the only one, because we saw other athletes really plead with the crowd today. So what did they say and what did you think . Did you think it had any effect . Absolutely. Sports figuring taking a leadership role in these kind of situations is something weve seen more often in recent years. We obviously saw it a lot in the 60s and early 70s. And when you had the Michael Jordan area come along in the 80s and 90s, he very specifically distanced himself from social justice and social issue situations. Then weve had this resurgence in the last five or ten years, of athletes taking a more active role. You saw ray lewis there, who has been long involved with trying to disrupt some of the Gang Violence in baltimore. You had Carmelo Anthony, who plays for the new york knicks, but a local hero there after growing up since the age of 8. Taking to instagram and social media and begging people saying i understand trust me i came from those streets. I understand how you feel but ripping up our community isnt the answer. He said we all want justice, and our city will get the answer answers it needs, but this is not the rate way to go about this. He was pleading for people. There are a lot of people out there in baltimore who respect Carmelo Anthony and ray lewis, and those athletes feel they can make a difference with their voices. Im a big fan of that. I think athletes have a responsibility to take a leadership role in their communities and this is examples of that. Yeah and thank you very much. And even more responsibility the parents that were going to speak to coming up. Thank you, rachel nichols. The curfew appears to be holding tonight here in the city of baltimore. The people of this city is right to take their city back. I want you to take a look at one baltimore mom, what she did when she saw her son out in the middle of the chaos yesterday. A lot of people are calling toyya graham a hero. Listen to what she told cbs news. Not even thinking about cameras or anything like that. Thats my only son. And at the end of the day, i dont want him to be a freddie gray. Lets talk now about this mom. Von devon is a teacher at baltimores western high school. Also with me now is monica baricosa. Kimberly thompson is with me as well a baltimore mother of four boys and a fitness instructor. Also tameka addison, another mother of four. Monica baricoas. Thank you very much. Excuse me for butchering your name. As you guys watch that mom, youre mothers, what do you think . Way to go mom sometimes you have to do what you need to do to take care of your kids. Just think about walking up to that crowd, she could tell which one of those kids was hers. At the end of the day, you need to do what you need to do. I would rather me knock his head off for him to come home rather than getting a call saying they just buried my son. Some said it was painful to watch. It wasnt painful to watch. Ive seen mothers do that to their kids. And he was scared. He was and i was too. When you put an investment into your children you do what you have to do to protect the investment especially when you know the day and the time that we live in, its very important that we really are proactive with our children and that were as present in their lives as we can. What about the folks who were saying she was hitting him, and i dont believe in Corporal Punishment and she shouldnt have been doing that . Well are those folks going to go and parent that child . Are those folks going to be around when that kid comes home from school and has nothing to do and the mom is working three jobs and is worried about, you know the state hes in and where hes spending his time. I think its very easy to stand on a pulpit and criticize from ivory towers or to have opinions that are strong but in such a tense situation, its really about making sure your kid doesnt get into more trouble in a worse way. Von, you work with students and kids who are this age. It takes this type of mother to get involved. Do you see that often in schools. We want this to continue. Im not just talking about Corporal Punishment, but im just talking about coming to the schools daily, checking on your kids you know, read their report cards, check their homework all those things matters. And it has an impact on the students. Do you think that everyone talked about the young people out in the crowd, and they started all the rioting, but when you look at the actual arrest reports, you know, it wasnt teenagers who were arrested. It was older people. Do you think the kids got a bad rap . But i think our generation failed. Because we were supposed to show them how to express themselves. You know we are the leaders in our communities. And they follow us. But it was the opposite way around. They was out there first and then we came behind them trying to fix the situation. So we were out there, showing them how to express themselves. It wouldnt have went that far. I was out there on the street right in front of mondawmin, trying to stop and talk to some of these kids. I think i reached some of them. They dont want to many of them dont want to hear it. They dont want to hear it. Why is that . I have nieces who are that age, and they dont want to hear it. They dont believe in peaceful nonviolence. They dont believe in it. They only know what theyre taught. If you dont teach them peace, they dont know peace. At the end of the day, your children learn what you teach them. We can expect the role models that come around and do the teaching we cant expect teachers to do parenting. We have to parent our own children. When this thing happened yesterday, the first thing to do was to grab your children and hold them. I had to turn their phones off, turn the television off, and sit and talk. When things started yesterday, i had 16 kids with me. I called all of their parents saying, your kids are safe, theyre with me. But they werent calling me. You dont just do what the cops say, dont just sit down youve got to take matters into your own hands . Not, not at all. We have to. You cant expect other people to do it. We have to do it for them. As they used to say, it takes a community to raise a child, these days they dont want communities to raise their children. You want to tell people i want to do this dont say to this my kid, but it takes all of us. Whats the lesson in this for young people . I think the lesson is just to not show violence. This is a bigger story to talk to your children about whats going on so they have is a whole picture, so you dont just see the sensationalism you see the community trying to come together and make a difference as best as it can, and focus on the positives, not just the negatives. We will come through this better we are a better city and we can stick together and get through it but you have to talk to your children. Tameka . Kim. Im sorry, kim, what is your whats the message you think the message is that even in anger, theres a way you can properly handle any situation. And i tell my children in any situation, you are always responsible for your reactions and that were called to react in a way that will impact our world for good and for in a positive way and not in a negative. 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Theyre working together not to fight the police but to fight for justice for freddie gray. I spoke with some of them today. Look at this. So all of you are with someone, who say theyre the crips are out here the bloods are out here the black guerilla family sout is out here. You wont tell me your affiliation. Were not pressed to tell you our affiliation, we just together. We live in a police state where every day we come out, weve been harassed by the police theyre checking out private areas and public areas, its just out of hand man. Even when youre not doing anything. Are you doing something for you to check them . Anybody no man. Stereotypes. Thats why its not all about the colors for now, for real. Meaning . Meaning gangs and different organizations. Yeah al of people may belong to certain things but that dont mean nothing, because were all united now. Its a big systemic problem weve got to deal with. Thats why theres 300, 400 people out in the community today. When you see the stuff happening with the looting and the fires, is that gang related . Thats not gang related. We had nothing to do with that. We the ones out here trying to bring peace and stop everything. When you see pictures of what happened last night, the burning and stuff on television what do yall think . It makes us look bad, man, because its not the cause. Disgraced. At the end of the day, what they show on the news and to the media, they showing what they want to see. They dont actually let them see whats really going on between us. Whats really going on . Unity. The unity between all of these rivals that wouldnt be together standing here right now. The kids are the ones who acted out in that manner. Right now the children are going off, because they have no recreational parts. You cant keep on poking somebody in the back and think theyre not going to turn around and swing. Like we had our bullet point and we survivors in baltimore, because thats what they made us by the way that they treated us. What was the last time has there ever been a truce like this called between all the colors . Never. Never in baltimore. So it was said that all of the people who it all started because gang members said were going to riot were going to loot were going to that was said by social media. That was said by the commission. You think that was social media doing it . And the police who else they going to blame it on when they cant control it. Well where we going to get about looting . We aint worried about no looting, because we make money we make money to get whatever we want. So we going to look good. We aint going to go loot no store. Like why, destroy the community where i live that my whole life you hear me . We not out here trying to say that we saints. That were all just the most innocent people in the world. Were trying to say that were making effective changes in our community or at least trying. It started with freddie gray now we going to take it to the next level. And we need everybodys support. Its not just baltimore, this is affecting the whole country right now. I want to tell our viewers, first, thank them for that. Well speak to these guys in just a minute. Were awaiting a press conference from baltimore police. Well bring that to you as soon as that press conference begins. I want to bring in now the reverend Lenox Sherwood the founder of hip hop caucus here in baltimore with me and also Carmichael Kennedy stoky kennedy, and he joins us as well an antiviolence activist. We were out in that park today. You help med gather those members of different colors or gangs. What is it how significant is that . Well, its very instrumental into what we do as a community, and leaders of our own environment, because i think it was paramount for us to come out today, you know, unify in a positive notion to let these kids know we can be their voice in a very positive manner. How many people did you see in that park today . A thousand people. You wanted them to have something productive to do while they werent in school. We wanted to be the voice of the kids. And i said earlier, our job and objective was, certain phone calls from friends and certain factions to get the kids together to get them off the street and explain to them theres a better way to express themselves. We can give credit to the leaders today, of the city. We can give credit to the Police Departments, and yesterday was a different story, but we also have to give credit to members of the community and Community Leaders, rev. We do. And i think thats why i want to give them the most credit. Evening theyre doing a wonderful job. I think one thing about baltimore, activists like stoky and others like that have been coming up big, organizing the gangs to be a part of the solution. I think most importantly, the young folks are simply saying that they want to be heard. Theres an angry, theres a frustration, and they are tired of not being a part of the table. Theyre saying listen we want to be part of the solution and we want to be part of the solution now. And theyre angry and theyre frustrated. Im so happy that leaders are coming together new leaders are coming together to say that we need to right this wrong and come to justice. Knot not only for freddie gray but for whats been happening in baltimore for many many years now. They talk about the disconnect not only between police and the community, but the disconnect between the world, how the world is viewing baltimore, what were reading on social media isnt necessarily the case. Surely theres violence. We saw people looting. We see all of that. But people should not be afraid to go into the communities. They wanted me and welcomed me when i got there. Members of the gang brought me food and said hey, we want you to come here because were trying to et gget it together. Thats a myth. I understand that you have atrocities all over the country and the nation especially when it deals with young violence but last night, as the rev said was an expression. And it was the way the young kids could voice themselves. And baltimore is a beautiful place. Ive been here my entire life. I dont like a lot of policies and i know theres a lot of kids without fathers, based on the minimum wage prison that kind of thing. We do what we can do with what we have. And there are lots of people who are working to make it better. There were some people who were upset today by the president s comments. Some people who said listen were working. Were working. The president said there were thugs who, you know, were causing the trouble last night, didnt like some of terms, but people here are working, both white and black, to help the communities. We had a real cohesive effort today with white and black people who came together to bring about a positive peaceful solution because we knew that the media only showed what they can show. I mean i understand theyre not in the community all the time, so when they have the opportunity to show negativity theyre going to show that. But we had a thousand people without Police Presence. There was no violence there was any type of Problematic Solutions that would cause them to come. Im proud to say that we did that and hopefully tomorrow we can move forward the narrative to continue to be peace and positive and bring about a positive solution and hopefully we can seek jitustice not only for freddie gray but other guys. And i didnt recognize you. You clean up very well. I was working. Nice to meet you. Youre like you met me earlier. Keep fighting. Thank you very much. Well have you back on. Keep us updated. I want to bring in now cnns Mark Lamont Hill a political commentator, also van jones with us a cnn political contributor here as well. And as we await this press conference guys we want to talk to look last night, van, i know you i was you were i dont know if mark was as hard on the leadership but we wanted answers and they stepped up. Absolutely. I think everybody had tough questions. But this this is a case study in leadership reversal. You had a dminus yesterday, probably by their own assessment privately. You go from that to an aplus. The big danger today was that you were so humiliated by what happened yesterday, that you overreact today. Instead, you saw i mean really a casebook study of how they set expectations they partnered with communities. Its really a triumph of people power, community power, as much as anything else. A massive celebration today. A hope went viral today. Peace went viral today. Cooperation went viral today, whereas violence went viral last night. So i think youve got to give youre going to criticize the mayor for yesterday, youve got to give the mayor and police a lot of credit for today. Mark lamont hill rightfully so yeah, i want dont want to be overconfident, right . Im never overconfident when it comes to state power. But i am confident in the people. And i think van is right. I think the mayor did a much better job today than she was given credit for yesterday. I think some of the critique that should have gone across the board only went to her. She became a convenient target. But for me the more interesting thing is what the people did. And van began to talk about that right, is Community Members were active. Organizers were active. Activists were active. Van mark weve got to get to the press conference. With the curfew with the help of many agencies state police the National Guard, we have deployed throughout the city as a whole. No major events. Earlier in the evening, we had a group march down into the downtown area and to city hall. We had no major issues with that. We had a small group within that group of about four to five people that we stopped and had a conversation but allowed them to proceed on that group had no issues. Very proud of them. They came down did their First Amendment rights and within the back and returned to the area that they had come from. You saw the activity that took place at pennsylvania and north. There, again, very pleased with the community and the citizens and the residents there, placing themselves, there was music, there was dance, people had their conversations. We had officers stationed out there, but it was a very good event for the day. Congressman Elijah Cummings was out there. He was talking to the crowd, a lot of the men the 300 men were at different places throughout the city today, making sure that she was seen and having a number of different meetings with community people. Just a background after the events today, weve had one correction two arrests for looting in the Central District. Weve had one arrest for Disorderly Conduct in the Eastern District. Also we had one officer had a driveby brandishing of a weapon in the same Eastern District within the last 30 minutes. In the Western District where thats north of pennsylvania in that area weve had about approximately seven arrests. In knowtotality in the city after the curfew went up weve had about ten total arrests. I get reports from the organization that we do not have a lot of activity or movement throughout the city as a whole, so the curfew is in fact working, as the mayor has called. One of the interesting things today that i just kind of happened by and willing to answer any questions, is that as i exited the building to go to a meeting today, we had pretty close to about 12 to 15 young adults waiting in line to become Police Officers at the baltimore Police Department. In light of the activities and issues i asked them are you still willing and able and wanting . They were very much enthusiastic and excited about becoming members of the baltimore Police Department which says a lot. Again, tonight, i think the biggest thing is that citizens are safe the city is stable we hope to maintain it that way. We are going to place the National Guard out at north and pennsylvania, probably for approximately a two to threeblock radius to sustain that area and stable ides and it make sure that everything is okay and residents are safe. Is there any are there a couple of questions that i can answer for you . [ inaudible question ] i dont have information on that. We were taking rocks out there earlier in the southern district. We had a young leader who did a very good job of responding in a very peaceful way. They ended up arresting, i believe is what i was told about three to four juveniles ss who were down in that area. I dont know about the injured officers but well follow up with you. The arrests, are they all [ inaudible ] violations or various theyre for various, giving you feedback without my glasses, in the Central District two for looting, in the Eastern District one Disorderly Conduct, and in the Western District we had, i believe, the vast majority are for curfew violations seven total. Ten all total. [ inaudible question ] yes, maam. [ inaudible question ] as the skirmish line moved forward, i know several times off to their flanks off the sides of them they were taking rocks and glass that were coming in. They were trying to push the crowd away and out, apparently it worked firing the pepper balls. We tried to deploy smoke, with the wind shifting it kind of also blinded us at the same time. So we had to hold and let the smoke clear, and then they were taking rocks and pellets and they were trying to push people further. They also used the armored cars to go out and push the participants off of the street. Folks, well have another briefing tomorrow between 12 00 and 1 00. For the next couple of hours, well continue to put updates out over our social media accounts. Anybody that has any questions, you can send them to our news address and well keep you updated in the morning. Thank you. All right. Press conference is wrapping up. You heard the Police Commissioner there, anthony bat today saying a total of them people arrested. Seven of those were arrested for curfew violations. I want to bring back in Cnns Van Jones and also Mark Lamont Hill to discuss. We just have a moment left here guys. Thats pretty good considering the level of violence that happened last night. Mark i cut you off, go ahead. Yeah yeah no i was going to say, the difference between yesterday and today is extraordinary. But i think its partly a story of police and partly a story of state officials and a bigger story about the community. The community policed itself. The Community Organized itself. The Police Obviously didnt overreach, but you had a nation of islamic got to go mark. They did what they had to do. Yeah. Yeah. Ive got the run, guys thank you very much. I have to get to a break. I appreciate it. Im sure you were going to you know reiterate what he said. Thank you, van jones and Mark Lamont Hill. Our breaking News Coverage continues in just a moment live from baltimore. I have moderate to severe crohns disease. Its tough, but ive managed. But managing my symptoms was all i was doing. So when i finally told my doctor, he said humira is for adults like me who have tried other medications but still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe crohns disease. 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