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Which was right down here where these barricades are. there were two water bottles thrown by protesters at the police. when they did that, without any warning or any announcement, phoenix police then fired off a single round of pepper stray, these pepper bullets they fired. that's when it set off the crowd and that's when things got very very intense here. they dispersed -- used pepper spray, the little bowls of pepper spray, tear gas and the grinades, firing them over the heads of protesters to try to get them to disperse. it took a good hour and a half, 2 hours. protesters have been here in ...

Convention center. they are using pepper spray, gas, and flash bang grenades and shooting though over the heads of the protesters. they make a very loud sound basically scaring people and getting them to disperse. we are between van buren and polk. there are protest ares scattering on first street and police are trying to move them back and make them disperse. most have gone home. what set this off is right in front of the north doors to the convention center, there were a couple of water bottles thrown at police. they then used pepper stray. that enranged the crowd. they started to pull back....

Go home. you all see what is about to go on. >> you have some of the same organizers now going back into the communities to try and clean up in the aftermath of a handful of criminals and thugs. >> the president called our children thugs. >> that's my only son. at the end of the day, i don't want him to be a freddy gray. ♪ we all need somebody to lean on ♪ >> good morning, everyone. i am carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. i am live in baltimore once again today, and that curfew kicked in uneasy peace has taken hold. nearly an hour after the 10:00 p.m. curfew police fire smok...

So we're on the backside of the -- where everybody was running. you can see police -- >> go ahead, ryan. continue. >> reporter: oh, okay thank you. so we're on the backside of where everybody was running away from where police were shooting those pepper bullets. you can see police have a back area here where they're backing up to make sure if people try to run back down this direction, they can easily stop them or apprehend them. they've also brought in towing trucks and they are going to start towing cars from what we were told earlier. so at this point, you can see the crowd has definitely l...

Citywide curfew. more than 11,000 police officers are on the streets here. this all follows violent protests, rioting on monday night after the funeral of freddie gray, the african-american man who died of a spinal core injury a week after being arrested by police. that mandatory curfew began about two hours ago. even as the clock struck 10:00, people were still on the streets. officers deployed pepper bullets and smoke canisters. some protesters were seen throwing those flash bangs right back at police. bottles were thrown. but no major clashes developed and is no major clashes to report. res...