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Tough time putting this back in the box. this is how they are reacting on this particular day, because they did not expect it. i think that the police at western district which is in the epicenter of the protest here most angry, but mostly people protest here and then now this at a moment that is several different high school students involved at a mall that is a predominantly african-american area of baltimore and it is so close to the church where mr. gray's funeral was today. it is i think, shocking and i think baltimoreans will have a tough time understanding what is happening in their cit...
Have a mass walkout and start basically going at police and they are, jake. >> miguel had you heard through your time in the streets talking to protestors, talking to demonstrators, talking to people in the baltimore community, had you heard about this plan for a protest? "theen athena reported earlier, she met somebody who was warned on facebook to avoid the area after 2:30. is this something that people in the community knew about? >> reporter: there were fires that were put out. there was some indication that this might be happening. there was the university of maryland and baltimore cancel...
Still throwing. plywood boards rocks, parts of bricks. it seems like -- any number of objects are being thrown. and, again, this is ostensibly a protest against police conduct, and in the freddie gray case but like i said a lot of the bystanders here including young people are not happy to see what is going on here. >> athena there were reports earlier in the day that a lot of these protestors were a lot of these demonstrators, were high school-aged students. who have you seen in the crowd of demonstrators? do they appear to be high school-age? are they various ages as we've been seeing? >> re...
Sound of wbal the helicopter pilot right now i want to tell viewers what they're looking at. on the left side of the screen they're seeing the police commissioner of the baltimore police department. he is with fellow officers as they take to it streets. there are arrests going on. there has been a great deal of violence against police officers today that we've seen. it started, it appeared with high school students. that's what we're told anyway from those in the streets of baltimore reporting for us. miguel marquez and athena jones. the high school students it appeared were the ones throwing ...