Yesterday, they said at the conclusion of mr. gray s funeral, each group was intended to kill and take out a police officer. commissioner could you have given the consensus if you had just given the protesters that much room and latitude did that in any way give them i don t think we gave them that much more latitude all the groups were peaceful. they didn t get reckless or problematic until they got to the baseball corner of the stadium too much they then started to act up. we moved resources to take care of the larger crowd to address them, we did address them and took them to jail. we prepared for mondawmin corridor, i saw the reaction and gave direction to advance on them. they just out-numbered us and
Protests were peaceful for the vast majority of time. until 6:00 a group splintered off and made its way south. they didn t get reckless or problematic until they got to the baseball corner of the stadium too much they then started to act up. we moved resources to take care of the larger crowd to address them. we did address them and took them to jail. we prepared for mondawmin corridor. we didn t give them room. i was there. i saw our reaction and gave direction to advance on them. they just out-numbered us and out-flanked us. we needed to have more resources there. not to respond forcibly or aggressively here? no. that s not the case. on saturday, we were giving them space, they have their first amendment rights, when they started to break windows and doing criminality, that is when we changed our attitude to engage them and arrest them to those who are causing harm. what we did today is because of the bricks and the glass and the stones that were coming in. as we did that it p