baseball bats, bricks, rocks. >> an angry mob just came out of nowhere. they started beating the freedom riders. i was hit with a wooden crate. beaten, left lying in a pool of blood. >> before police finally broke up the crowd with tear gas, they beat and injured at least 20 persons. >> after the riders are attacked and brutally beaten, the freedom riders essentially become trapped in ralph abernathy's first baptist church. >> the church was surrounded and people were setting fire to cars. >> that is a very dangerous situation outside. no one but no one could leave the church. >> dr. king had gone over to montgomery from atlanta to lend support to the freedom riders. and so king, too, along with the riders, is trapped at this church.