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The police start a slow advance. you can see the flash bangs. they are not gas. this is not tear gas. restraint rules the day for both sides though bottles and pepper bullets fly. smoke canisters to push people off streets, sometimes come back. tense moments tick by. but only those challenging the line disappear into a wall of shields. a handful of arrests, progress compared to the hundreds cuffed for looting and assault on officers just 24 hours before. on this day less water is thrown. a littl...

I dont know what that is. all right. its obvious that the police have lost their patience. and theyve started with the flash bangs. dont run, dont run. take it easy. just stay with me. just stay with me. when the police line advances well move back this way. >> geraldo, it looks like malik -- >> its pretty intense. pretty intense now. sean the wind is coming down in our direction. im optimistic. >> geraldo, well get back to you. thank you, geraldo rivera.

Reverend bryant, he had thousands pledging their assurance and go out in the streets and reclaim their communities. then you have the clergy saying just like the riots havent been since the 60s, our resolve hasnt been since the 60s as well. then you had something else. thousands of national guardsmen and thousands of cops on the streets last night. they had their shields, they held the line they used the flash bangs. could have been much much worse. but do you think that was the right way to bri...

Heres what it was like on the streets of baltimore last night. >> lets just watch this. lets just watch this. lets watch this. >> the citizens are safe. the city is stable. >> reporter: big crowds return to the streets tuesday night, but this time joining them were more than 1,000 police and some 2,000 national guardsmen. >> nobody needs to get arrested tonight. we want you all to go home. >> reporter: as the clock nears the 10:00 p.m. curfew the mayors voice over the loud speaker, stephanie raw...

Sounded like they came from a completely different place just adjacent to where the subway was located. when it initially happened, i personally thought it sounded like a louder bang like mare tear gas being deployed or flash bangs. thats when i immediately went to the camera reposition and got in focus and hit record and took cover after that. >> you also have some video that you shot. this is one of the officers receiving treatment is what it looks like. tell us what you saw there. >> reporter...

The lawsuit by saying that the boys death was caused by his own actions. im sure you have people that apalled by this. >> im shaking my head. and again, it does not make sense. less than 2 seconds from when police pulled on the scene this 12-year-old boy was shot and kill ed killed. he didnt even have an opportunity to kind of comply, if you will. this does not make sense. children should not be shot in the streets of the united states of america. and im disappointed. >> the police lied about wh...

Where police -- let me back up. every time i hear one of these stories it makes meso angry and i think the police have lost their minds. but it is an empirical question whether or not civilians are in circumstances where they are more or less likely to be in confrontations with police. what do we know? is it getting better or worse? >> the short answer is we know way less than we should. in the big cities by all accounts and from all the data i have reviewed the numbers of police involved use of...

When you look back, and weve watched several times the video of police storming into that building and ending this hostage situation. just looking at it from a tactical point of view, was that the right way to go? >> you know, i think absolutely the right decision. i think the dynamics changed inside. we dont know the reason they changed. could the hostage taker have heard police movement somewhere and started to change something? could he have on his own started to separate the hostages, maybe ...

Nvg -- night vision goggles -- on. looking towards the doors. there was a shot fired. we think it was the gunman firing a shot. we heard from one police officer saying that a hostage was down and at that point the police moved in. we saw a lot of explosive material, flash bangs as theyre called, stun grenades to disrupt and startle the gunman. as police units move in from both sides of the cafe to try and get him before he could do any further damage. now, very dramatic scenes as weve seen more ...

Team of what i count were four tactical police marched quietly up the stairs, fully loaded, guns bristling, throwing stun grenades and went in. there was a lot of gunfire, a lot of flash bangs and for a period of about 30 seconds the entire place, the martin place four court between our two buildings was lit up as the police went in to do their thing. there was gunfire ringing out from both sides. it was extremely dramatic. extremely tense. and now it seems to have settled down. obviously there ...