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Night in a row. >> and in charge of keeping the peace, three powerful african-american women. stephanie has their story. >> this may be the popular image of a powerful woman in baltimore. but the real power for peace, justice and civil rights is being waged by this woman. >> if, with the nation watching, three black women at three different levels can't get justice and healing for this community, you tell me where we're going to get it. >> that's right. the mayor, the state's attorney and the head of maryland's military are all black women. >> i love this city and i know we can be better than ...

Or encourage good teachers to come into districts like that. >> the other answer the liberal answer is raise taxes on the few that are willing to pay taxes, raise taxes on the business owners. >> people that are struggling. >> give more money to failing programs. >> i think that the councilman is so off target. president obama used the word thug and so did mayor rawlings. he's basically worried about white people thinking that they are using the "n" word and can substitute thug. he should be worried about the fact that there is actual thuggish behavior going on. >> the word thuggish is color b...

Lights and i am going to go home, everyone from the national media is going to go home college students might graduate and leave. and then what? >> well that's the problem. we need to continue and focus on the positive things because at the bottom line, we need a change to come from this. we are out here we are protesting, but what we need is laws to be changed because innocent lives are being lost. and it shouldn't take looting to bring you guys out here when this is something that's going on in our baltimore streets on a day-to-day basis. so a lot of times the media, you guys are here to cov...

Shields and helmets but were not allowed to use the big sticks that protect you against bottles and bricks and provide some kind of cushion. i'm told that the baltimore police ordered a number of officers including those coming from other places to simply try and help to not wear those protective uniforms. obviously that changed over the next couple of days especially as we saw on tuesday when the police finally decided to really lay down the law. >> leland so mayor rawlings-flake blake said that wasn't the case and then again she said she didn't let them -- give them room to destroy stuff aft...

Agent. dee, you know baltimore so well. the people of baltimore, you heard evan's reporting there may not be charges and they may not have a decision here for a long time. are the people of baltimore prepared for this? what happens if there is no decision for months? and if there are no charges against these officers? -- >> it's hard to say. right now baltimore doesn't look like baltimore. we're living in a mill tarized state right now. even walking over here i passed all types of humvees and dudes with assault rifles and guns that plug into vans and things like that. so it's hard to say. let'...