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Matched with our city's values. than than the mayor said they inserted wire hangars into sockets to create power sources. protester organizers say they only used heater outside of tenths and they deny allegations of using wire hangars for electricity but you look at the pictures of the park it is surrounded by barricades and police are allowing no one inside, including the media. so all of the protest activity has moved a mile and a half to the south of this park, just outside the pre-trial detention center where over the course of the day, protesters, one by one, have been released from the f...

Side of town. at the facility where some protesters are being held. right now we have the police and a group of demonstrators staring down one another. why is it going on there? because there have been so many arrests today. police tell us 224 arrests since 6:00 a.m. this morning. that makes 562 since june 18th, when some of the protest activity began. you know yesterday there was violence here in the streets of toronto, there were windows broken, police cars burned. and today the police went on the offensive, they were stopping young people in some parts of the city, asking to look in their b...

Election was stolen. and reclaim america. now, when you see this, on july 4th weekend, andrew, in the birthplace of our country. i got to know, what goes through your mind? >> well, laura, so many things. right? i mean, just -- there is just the raw offense of watching this on july 4th. on independence day. in the cradle of democracy. it's -- it's just stunning. but we have to step back from that, and really get down into the weeds to understand how significant this is, as a sign of where we are with extremist movements around the country. the patriot front is a group, we all know well from ch...

Surrounded by people who are engaged in incredibly important conversations about how we're going to make our city better, how we're going to address policing and those conversations are being cut short because people are forced inside, sort of in the absence of any real need for that. >> one of the things that we've been watching on social media today and it hard for us to verify but i will say we're seeing a lot of reports that seem to reinforce the impression that the curfew is only being imposed in certain parts of baltimore. baltimore is a big city. it's more than 600,000 people. what's be...

And burned cars. today, a very very different scene. we are right now in the epicenter of what has been the kind of protest activity all day. from beginning early today, there has been a line formed from midday today, a line form of folks standing between the crowd and the police in riot gear. the police in riot gear have kept that line now going on six, seven hours. the people in front of them community members, linked in arm, men and women. they have kept that line going for six and seven hours. at several moments earlier today, we were here there were a few bottles thrown. a few words excha...