buildings burned and bottles thrown and police attacked. and he was adamant that this has been brewing for a long time. too many people have been abused by police officers. and he said that this was in essence pay back. he didn t endorse or condone the violence. but also he flood it. it is boiling over and one can only hope what things calm down and the presence of the national guard and police officers will help to calm things and perhaps city leaders can help calm things as well as clergy. but tonight at least things don t seem calm at all. they point to that as up with of the reasons for one of the causes but earlier in the footage we were watching leland is stuck in the middle and two different groups of people who were rioting and fighting each other. and so i mean are these the
they put a car fire out. this thing has been burning for almost an hour or more out here in terms of the car fires. whether the police are held back or they made a tactical decision here opt ground i don t know. we ve got interestingly enough if this is happening some of the folks throwing bottles now approaching the police line again yelling at them. we don t know whether we will see more of the same kind of violence that we ve seen over the past couple of hours here. but clearly through out the night, as the police get tired and everything else the demonstrators here with the upper hand. these guys don t know the streets. they have no idea where they are and they don t know the tactical situation they are facing a not they don t know the score here. you put that combined with a lot
didn t go into effect until monday. we were working until around the clock to bring order. that s why i spent a big portion of the the day getting additional resources to bring calm to the city. making sure we got the executive order right to give people enough time to know we were putting the occur few in place p. and making sure that the daytime curfew was in place and schools are closed. and a lot of ts to cross and is to dot to make sure you we get it right. joining us ted williams former homicide detective. ted is very familiar with baltimore and ted, we you and i talked about ferguson when it erupted. one of the things we had a question was why it took so long for the governor to bring in the national guard back then. and we saw the violence erupt
the rioting came hours after gray s funeral, his family said they are shocked by violence and are calling by calm and hope to organize a peace march later in the week. rick levanthal joins us with the latest. can you describe the scene right now? we are at the corner of mount and baker. can you see firefighters on the roof of the building. about 90 minutes good there was smoke pouring out of the front of the struck tower. firefighters arrived a few minutes later as flames poured out of that build pg. they were able to put it down but they are still up on the roof there. they just took an axe it a section. they are trying to get water on hot spots inside. this was a store, i m told a corner store. there are homes right next to it and those homes have clearly been affected by the fire apparently started by looters.
the leaders of this city have to step in and try to stop the rioting from going on. earlier, baltimore mayor accused the news media of twisting her words. the mayor flatly denying she said anything that could be construed as giving protesters the okay to spread violence. let s listen to what she said earlier. i m going to protect people s right to protest. the fact that people exploited that does not man i don t have the right to protect people s right to protest. i never said nor would i are say we are giving people s faith to destroy our city. my word shouldn t be twisted. that curfew is tomorrow night from 10:00 p.m. it will last at least a week. she was asked why the curfew