Riot Protest News Today

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Tough time putting this back in the box. this is how they are reacting on this particular day, because they did not expect it. i think that the police at western district which is in the epicenter of the protest here most angry, but mostly people protest here and then now this at a moment that is several different high school students involved at a mall that is a predominantly african-american area of baltimore and it is so close to the church where mr. grays funeral was today. it is i think, sh...

Have a mass walkout and start basically going at police and they are, jake. >> miguel had you heard through your time in the streets talking to protestors, talking to demonstrators, talking to people in the baltimore community, had you heard about this plan for a protest? "theen athena reported earlier, she met somebody who was warned on facebook to avoid the area after 2:30. is this something that people in the community knew about? >> reporter: there were fires that were put out. there was som...

Still throwing. plywood boards rocks, parts of bricks. it seems like -- any number of objects are being thrown. and, again, this is ostensibly a protest against police conduct, and in the freddie gray case but like i said a lot of the bystanders here including young people are not happy to see what is going on here. >> athena there were reports earlier in the day that a lot of these protestors were a lot of these demonstrators, were high school-aged students. who have you seen in the crowd of de...

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...

Procession look weve had problems here with police for years a and years. why didnt they threaten them then? i dont believe that threat is the credible. thats just one person but i havent seen evidence of police being targeted by any one who seems to be part of a gang. this seems to be a protest by high school students thats gone out of control. >> athena weve seen what appears to be smoke flares in the street there, gwynns falls parkway, something with smoke. you said earlier you thought perhap...