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Epicenter of congregation today and disperse it which i think was going to be the biggest challenge in terms of observing the curfew. we were in ferguson the first sign of a bottle thrown meant the tear gas came out, they marched forward, total, complete zero tolerance escalation. that has been a very very different story here in baltimore tonight where the baltimore police took a lot of incoming projectiles, they selectively used pepper balls which are much less toxic than actual tear gas. they create smoke, but they don't create that wrenching, burning sensation. so it was a much much lower ...

As well. leaving a presence here. not what we saw earlier tonight when police clashed with a small number of demonstrators who defied the curfew. they threw plastic bottles. glass bottles at police as well. police responded with, with, using some things like this. weapons such as this. it is a rubber baton. they also used pepper balls as well. to, to help disperse the crowd. and also helping, community leaders stood out here in a line. between themselves and police. they encouraged people, all throughout the night, on bull horns. to go home. to, to, obey the curfew. unfortunately, just a small...

Attention that they need and help put one foot in front of the other. >> toure -- >> i mean if the -- >> i just want to help out on this thing about the person you saw who might have been hit with something, the 36 minutes ago the baltimore police tweeted that they were deploying pepper balls at that time. so that may very well be what that young man was hit by. thanks, toure. we're going to go to ron allen at another location. what is happening where you are. >> well, lawrence, as you can see, there's the phalanx of police behind us, about 30 yards away or so and moved sort of in a direction ...

Apparently it worked. firing the pepper balls. the biggest thing is that citizens are safe. the city is stable. we hope to maintain it that way. >> so today things are running very smoothly so far. traffic is going on pennsylvania and on north. you can see that there are heavily armed, heavily protected police who are just waiting for anything. and authorities here in baltimore are so serious today, about preventing big crowds from gathering, that they're not going to let anybody inside camden yards for this afternoon's game except the people when are going to play for the orioles and the whit...

How to build a constructive forward thinking you know building kind of movement in a way that still gets the attention they need and help put one foot in front of the other. >> if the -- >> i just want to help out on this thing about the person you saw who might have been hit with something, the 36 minutes ago the baltimore police tweeted they were deploying pepper balls at that time. so that may very well be what that young man was hit by thanks, toure, we'll go to ron allen at another location. what is happening where you are. >> reporter: well lawrence, as you can see there's the phalanx of...