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We went to the mondawmin corridor. they just outnumbered us and outflanked us. bill: that was yesterday. there is an entirely possible newer the city of baltimore today and they are hopefully as best they can learning from the mistakes of the past 18 hours or so not to be repeated today. will that happen? bill gavin is the former assistant director of the f.b.i. how is it if you are running a city or even a state for that matter that you can find yourself in a situation where you are outnumbered and outflanked? can you explain that? where civil disobedience is permitted. civil disobedience will prevail. the actions of the police, the ....
It will all be over. let me set the scene. we are on northwest avenue. you can look up the street and see state police out in riot gear. armored cars on the streets. all of the debris from the violence that happened yesterday. yesterday, this was a city under siege. the police commissioner saying at one point they were out numbered and outflanked. groups of rioters looted a cvs. they went to a check cashing store and liquor store. they threw bottles at police for hours. breaking off in smaller groups. fire crews were challenged as they were trying to put out fires after rioters came out and cut their hoses. the baltimore mayor stephanie ....
Overnight in the midst of the chaos she she tried to clarify her comments. i never said nor would i ever say we are giving people space to destroy our city. my words should not be twisted. reporter: under fire the police department. tear gas. reporter: how did the situation get so out of control? stepping into the firing line a group of religious leaders, christian and muslim, who joined hands to drive the crowd back. reporter: did you step in because you felt like the police were losing control? i felt like not losing it they never had it. reporter: did the police give the street thug too much space? commissioner should they have given protesters that much room and latte today over the last few days? i don t think we gave them much room or latitude. they outnumbered us and outflanked us. we needed more resources there. back out live here in baltimore at city hall there s also concern and criticism, why is it that the curfew was announced yesterday and yet it doesn t ....
Of mr. gray s funeral day, each group was intending to kill and take out a police officer. commissioner, should you have given the protesters that much room that much latitude over the last two days and did that in any way kind of i don t think we gave them much room or latitude. on saturday the protests were peaceful for the vast majority of time until at 6:00 you had a group splinter and make its way south. they didn t get reckless until the northeast corner of the baseball stadium. then started to act up. we moved resources to take care of the larger crowd, to address them. we did and took them to jail. we prepared for mon dommon corridor. i was there. i saw our reaction and i gave them direction to advance on them. they just outnumbered us and outflanked us. we needed more resources there. ....
Them to jail. we prepared today for the mond mondawmin corridor. they just outnumbered us and outflanked us. not to respond forcefully or aggressively here? no. that s not the case. on saturday we were giving them space. they have the first amendment rights when they started breaking windows and doing criminality. that s when we changed our attitude to arrest those causing harm. what we did is we deployed pepper balls because of the bricks and the glass and the stones coming in. as we did that it pushes them. with the youth for kids, they started running around in rapid manner. we have to adjust to that. why wait until tomorrow to entact curfew? i ll get to you in one second. the number of officers injured, the number of arrests made. i don t have the official numbers. i was told there were 15 ....