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>> all right, one more. you spoke in earlier times, that it was outside agitators and tonight youre referring to young people in the community. no doubt in your mind these are baltimoreans behind todays actions? >> i think well definitely get to the bottom of the individuals who are, you know the bad actors who are destroying our city. you know whether theyre from the community or from outside, we wont stand by and let our communities be destroyed. and i want to thank those members of the commun...

Foresee, foreshadowing tonight? do you think it could be just as bad or no way theyll stop it? >> i think whats going to happen when you see the national guard roll in, its a very impressive sight. >> thats the point. >> its unmistakable that heres a presence and a force. what types of things do agitators want to see in whats their agenda? is it getting in front of the camera and making a scene or there are other things. can you prevent looting? yes. can you prevent violence? perhaps not. i thin...

Those troopers have brought interesting technology with them. some geospacial gridding where they can map out their own people and the location of the agitators. kudos to jersey state police for helping out like that. >> thank you very much. were going to go to leland in baltimore to get a sense of what they are planning. remember this curfew is in effect if youre 14 or younger, you have to get out of there by 9. anyone else by 10:00. that will last into early next week. how many will honor that...

They are and where theyre from. are they outside agitators or not? i can tell you inmajority of what ive seen in the lawless areas of west baltimore i was in yesterday and have been driving a bit through this morning, was just dozens and dozens if not hundreds of people taking advantage of every kind of situation they could to score free things by looting stores burning vehicles or hurting others. >> do you believe that the medias looked at as the enemy? >> i can tell you that the rioters have n...

Panther party is there, who is being described by the media -- lets listen in. could you make that out, rod? >> no no. what did they say? >> were trying to listen on your phone and we heard somebody yelling. but i was speaking about malik shrks shibaz who is the head of the black party. the main guy is out there saying how they need to kill white cracker babies. its not all white organic protest, some of it it is but its white agitators, right? >> yes, it is. there was about 50 of those gentleme...

Arrests. of those 235, 34 juveniles and 201 adults but adults mostly in the range of 18 to 30. and were trying to figure out if these people arrested were local residents of the chance from baltimore or so-called outside agitators. at least the initial impression were getting these are local residents of the community not necessarily outside agitators. thats significant, right? >> well it is significant and significant in the sense that it tells you that there are people who are indigenous to th...

Unofficial capacities. >> totally. >> absolutely. >> okay. the rules of engagement seem to be different than usual for police on the ground. they seem to be watching things going on. i know they had to be safe but even when you had 30 50 100 officers in line, there seemed to be a high degree of tolerance. do you think this was a plan by the office of the mayor or otherwise say hold back, we dont want a ferguson? >> no. >> i think you disagree? >> absolutely. i think it was. >> and you think it w...

Ep enforcement going on here. weve seen it time and time again. weve seen the throwing of bottles, stones rocks. weve seen law enforcement being pelted with bottles and showing a lot of restraint. shawna handy was asking me a question. tell me about the gang situation. are the gangs trying to get together to go against law enforcement? >> no, no, they actually want peace. >> reporter: the gangs actually want peace. >> yeah. >> reporter: why is that? >> im so -- >> reporter: now we have tear gas ...

Departments from around the state, and i met with sheriff lewis, and i didnt expect that, and we have the national guard and other leaders who have backgrounds for dealing with this type of -- these circumstances that we have. >> are a lot of people wondering why the national guard wasnt called in earlier, and there was violence and people said outside agitators, nothing to worry about, but that was not the case at all. >> no governor wants to call in the national guard. thats a last resort. i w...

Thats when they retreated back to where we are. as note fall has come, it has gotten increasingly violent and unpredictable. thats one of the reasons we are staying closer to the police. >> have police attempted to affect an arrest in any way? >> remember earlier we talked in the 8:00 hour and they arrested looters of the stores. there was a deals store looted. and the police had enough force that they were able to come in an arrest those looters. but 1s s, 3s, 4s, arrested. out here you have so...