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The one who told me about the warning hed gotten on facebook but this crowd has been mostly made up of young people that i can tell. not all of them are holding signs, and not all of them seem to be focused on protesting freddie gray. some seem to want to just throw rocks at police. here you see a vehicle that has been damaged by -- some projectile. so -- were watch aring the situation, but, yes. seems to be mostly young people and i it tell you now from our vantage point i see a lot more police...

>> yeah. i dont want to get into that right now. were in the middle of the situation. our focus right now we need to let people in that community know that were doing what we can to ensure theyre safety. were sending extra resources and deploying police officers to make sure that that neighborhood is safe. that the people trying to get home from work can do so peacefully. >> a question -- [ inaudible ]. >> thats something were going to figure out. we know rocks are being thrown bricks are being ...

Theyre planning a riot tell everyone. this is what this bystanders friend told him via facebook. the officer at the mall saids supposed to start here at mondamon and downtown. tell everybody, dont go near their areas. i havent seen a march take place. we learned the university of maryland and baltimore decided to close early because theyd received an alert from baltimore police there would be a quote/unquote purge at the high school here. right outside of a high school at 3:00. that seems to be ...

Sound of wbal the helicopter pilot right now i want to tell viewers what theyre looking at. on the left side of the screen theyre seeing the police commissioner of the baltimore police department. he is with fellow officers as they take to it streets. there are arrests going on. there has been a great deal of violence against police officers today that weve seen. it started, it appeared with high school students. thats what were told anyway from those in the streets of baltimore reporting for us...

>> well i think theyre still waiting -- for instance the maryland state police quick response team just arrived on the scene. theyre actually right in front of me here so im going to have to move because of the rocks being thrown at them. but were getting members from other police departments now to mass on the scene and i think youll start seeing arrests here made rather soon. so i would advise -- and there are a lot of young people just milling around not actually throwing rocks but they need ...

This intersection the various things that have been thrown towards the police. theyre now trying to shut off this road. the road that you see here several dozen young people ran in the opposite direction after throwing these rocks, bricks et cetera towards police. so its very unstable as you can see. not even the intersections are entirely shut down. so it is by far a situation that is still not under control at all. jake? >> athena stay with us. i want to bring in former maryland police officer...

>> reporter: theyre throwing rocks at police. theres a line in the street. >> reporter: they are throwing rocks at police -- >> miguel -- hold on one second. i want to go to athena jones, also in the thick of it down there. athena there is obviously a group of police proceeding down the street on moss.en masse. what are you seeing? >> reporter: trying to form a v before. now seem to be stopping in the middle of the intersection. several were throwing rocks who turned around and headed in the ear...

Protestors. according to images were getting on the television from affiliates in baltimore, throwing rocks and bricks and bottles at the police who have been forming barricades at certain checkpoints. getting live images from baltimore right now. this scene comes amid other reports that there are rival gangs uniting to target police officers in the wake of freddie gray. still unexplained death in police custody. he died one week ago yesterday. lets go to if we can, cnns athena jones whos in the...

People who cleared cars out for us and we were able to get through, but there are people of all ages all sexes, with rocks, sticks looking to -- to go after police in this neighborhood of baltimore. it is an extraordinarily bad sign that this is happening on the day of freddie grays funeral. jake? >> all right. just for those of us who are joining right now, weve been watching what i think are fair to describe as riots breaking out in the streets of baltimore as members of the baltimore police d...

North of washington, d.c. now called in to assist here. they are taking,s that the second heavily armed vehicle that we have een, or armored vehicle we have seen move down gwynns falls, or ricerstown road. we came up that road that that car is currently going down and i can tell you it was a frightening thing. ive covered a few things in my life as have you, nothing more 23r50i9 frightening than an angry mob. mostly young people of both sexes with rocks, stick, anything they could fight with. po...