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Developing tonight, new questions about race. in the 2016 campaign as the head of the black lives matter protest group threatens to disrupt the gop convention and possibly the debate. the group made a lot of political news last week when protesters showed up at a big meeting for liberal democrats and disrupted speeches by both bernie sanders and martin omalley. governor omalley created more controversy, by suggesting -- wait for it -- that in fact all lives matter. >> every life matters, and tha...

Developing tonight, new questions about race. in the 2016 campaign as the head of the black lives matter protest group threatens to disrupt the gop convention and possibly the debate. the group made a lot of political news last week when protesters showed up at a big meeting for liberal democrats and disrupted speeches by both bernie sanders and martin omalley. governor omalley created more controversy, by suggesting -- wait for it -- that in fact all lives matter. >> every life matters, and tha...

>> the people were largely protestors from the 1960s who when that decade ended were really unwilling to give up on the dreams of change, of ending the war, of improving the lives of african-americans. and at the dawn of the 1970s believed in their hearts that a revolution was coming and that the best way to bring that on in america was to resort to political violence. >> but how did this turn violent? was it fringe elements a natural evolution? >> it was a natural evolution in their minds for w...

Miller, investigative reporter for pvla in baltimore. jayne is at city hall. it looked like the police were going to make a couple of examples of a couple of arrests down there and hope that that settles things down. has -- is city hall now under control? >> yeah. there was a real skirmish here a couple of minutes ago. im just going to step over here because the -- they brought one of the police wagons in. and i think they just brought a bigger van in because they definitely got in a skirmish wi...

Its socially positive from what weve watching so far. this is like a block party is what it looks like. anyway, the curfew in baltimore goes into effect tonight at 10:00. thats serious business. illegal for anyone of any age. long had a curfew for kids under 14 but everyone has to be off the streets by 10:00 and were learning right now about a protest group. seems like an organized group, peaceful group heading to the baltimore inner harbor. >> im here in the inner harbor area and theres a group...

>> caller: well its complicated. everyones been asking for chief jackson to resign since august 10th, really. and it its accepted as good news that hes gone. it doesnt solve anything really. but its accepted as a step in the right direction. understand that there were new people at the protest tonight, and understand, it was winding down when this happened. everyone that i was in touch with all night was packing up to leave. and so this was not like there was an escalating tension that resulted ...

>> deray, we are looking at video of a fight that broke out during the protests. a lot of people telling us the protests were mostly peaceful. i dont know if you can see your tv screen. we are looking at this fight breaking out. what is the tension among the different groups protesting? can you tell us anything about this incident? >> i think today was -- it has been a long time. you know there are some issues that people need to work out among themselves. we have not always had the space to do ...

Right here is where you see this cop car right now, there was a big protest group here within the last hour and a half or so. weve been told by colleagues there could have been maybe 500 people. thats really essentially the largest we would have seen tonight. as you saw from the pictures from last night, people, groups marching all over the city last night. obviously many, many more than 500 people then. but what we know from tonight, things were a little more natural, a little more organic. thi...

Jones. >> reporter: the protest has just begun here in chinatown. this is in central washington. a very busy area, especially on a friday night. you can see them talking here. they have begun to shut down a major intersection. the goal is to disrupt, to bring attention to their goal of ending racial injustice and racial profiling and police brutality. the goal is not just to shut down traffic. they want to make it difficult for people to get to the wizards game tonight. theyre playing just down ...

Particular protest group. and they want to irpt rupt other peoples work and ability to do their jobs to get their point cross. well let you know as they unfold throughout the afternoon. >> and part of the highway is closed after a huge mud slide in southern california. and leaving 2 or 3 meet of mud. the devastating colby fire loosened rocks and debrie and making the area vulnerable for more slides. >> and a woman was kicked off of the job without pay after she got pregnant and now taking that c...