BREAKING NEWS.
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VISIT NCICAP.ORG] KAI: WE ARE HEARING A LOT OF REPORTS OF DAMAGE IN BALTIMORE, SPECIFICALLY THE INNER HARBOR AREA.
WE HAVE CAPTAIN ROY TAYLOR IN SKY TEAM 11 RIGHT NOW.
ROY: DOWN HERE AT THE INNER HARBOR AREA, A LAR GROUP OF THE PROTESTERS UP AT CITY HALL CAME DOWN HERE.
WHEN THEY WORKED THEIR WAY AROUND THE GALLERY, THEY STARTED BUSTING OUT WINDOWS OF THE GALLERY, ALONG WITH THE JEWELRY STORE.
THERE MUST HAVE BEEN ABOUT 100, 150 INDIVIDUALS THAT ENDED UP DOING DESTRUCTION ON PRATT STREET, THEN THEY WORKED THEIR WAY ACROSS TO THE INNER HARBOR PAVILION.
CITY POLICE WERE TRYING TO PROTECT AND APPREHEND INDIVIDUALS CAUSING DESTRUCTION.
IT HAS BEEN HIT AND MISS BETWEEN THESE PROTESTERS THAT ARE TRYING TO SPLIT UP CITY FORCES TO CAUSE AS MUCH HAVOC AS THEY POSSIBLY CAN.
WE HAVE SEEN A LOT OF DESTRUCTION WHERE THE WINDOWS HAVE BEEN BUSTED OUT.
STORES HAVE A LOT OF DAMAGE DONE TO THEM.
HAVE NOT SEEN ANY LOOTING, PER SE.
IT LOOKS MORE LIKE A DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY.
IT APPEARS AT ONE TIME THEY CALLED A SIGNAL 13, WHICH MEANS AN OFFICER NEEDED ASSISTANCE RIGHT HERE AT PRATT AND CALVERT.
PHOTOGRAPHER BOBBY MOORE SHOWING YOU RIGHT NOW.
STILL LAY-INS SITUATION.
THERE IS A LARGE CONTINGENT UP BY CITY HALL.
A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE MOVED TO THE INNER HARBOR AREA, PRATT, CALVERT STREET, LIGHT STREET.
YOU SEE A SMALL GROUP WORKING THEIR WAY NORTHBOUND ON CALVERT AS WE MONITOR WHAT IS GOING ON.
WE HAVEN’T RECEIVED ANY REPORTS OF MORE OFFICERS BEING INJURED OTHER THAN THE ONES WE TOLD YOU ABOUT EARLIER TONIGHT, BUT IT IS STILL LAY-INS SITUATION -- DELAY TENTS -- STILL A TENSE SITUATION
POLICE HAVE TO DEAL WITH.
KAI: PROTESTS HAVE SPREAD ACROSS BALTIMORE CITY TODAY AND WELL INTO TONIGHT.
AT ONE POINT OFFICERS HAD TO BARRICADE CITY HALL AS A CROWD GATHERED OUTSIDE.
11 NEWS REPORTER TRE WARD HAS BEEN MONITORING THESE PROTESTS ALL DAY.
HE JOINS US LIVE FROM DOWNTOWN.
WHAT WE HAVE SEEN FROM CAPTAIN ROY’S SOME GROUPS HAVE MOVED AWAY FROM CITY HALL.
ARE YOU STILL SEEING A LARGE GROUP AT CITY HALL?
TRE: BEHIND US, BECAUSE WE HAVE TAKEN A SAFE DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE FRENZY, IT LOOKS AS THOUGH THERE ARE STILL PROTESTERS IN FRONT OF CITY HALL.
THAT UNREST CAPTAIN ROY WAS TALKING ABOUT BEING SEEN RIGHT IN FRONT OF CITY HALL.
WE HAVE SEEN CONFLICTS BETWEEN POLICE OFFICERS IN RIOT GEAR AND DEMONSTRATORS.
WE LEARNED BALTIMORE POLICE HAVE CALLED IN MARYLAND STATE POLICE, COMING TO PROTECT CRITICAL BUILDINGS.
THAT IS WHILE POLICE WORK TO DISPERSE THE CROWDS.
THE BARRICADE AROUND CITY HALL HAS EXPANDED TO KEEP DEMONSTRATORS AWAY.
THAT’S AS THE TWO PARTIES CONTINUED TO COME INTO CONFLICT.
WE HAVE SEEN WHAT LOOKS LIKE TEAR BEING USED TO BREAK UP DEMONSTRATORS.
A POLICE CRUISER ALSO DAMAGED ON SCENE, AS CITY LEADERS CALL FOR PEACE.
>> ARE YOU READY, SISTERS AND BROTHERS?
TRE: A NATIONWIDE CRY FELT IN THE STREETS OF BALTIMORE -- >> I CAN’T BREATHE.
TRE: AS HUNDREDS GATHERED NEAR 20TH AND NORTH CHARLES STREETS.
HOPING FOR THE BEST -- >> I ARMOR UP SO OTHER PEOPLE DON’T HAVE TO GET HURT TODAY.
TRE: -- BUT PREPARED FOR THE WORST.
>> I’LL GET THROWN IN PRISON, AND I AM FINE WITH THAT SO SOMEBODY ELSE DOES NOT GET SHOT.
TRE: MANY PARTICIPATING IN A MOTORCADE, PROTESTING THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD AFTER BEING HELD DOWN BY HIS NECK BY A NOW-FORMER MINNEAPOLIS POLICE OFFICER.
>> WE HAVE TO FIGHT AGAINST THESE THINGS.
I AM VERY GLAD THAT THEY WON THE CHARGING AND THE ARREST OF THE MAIN COP.
CHARGES NEED TO BE MORE SERIOUS AND THE OTHER THREE NEED TO BE ARRESTED ALSO.
TRE: BUT PROTESTERS SAY THE RECENT DEATH AT THE HANDS OF THE EX-COP -- >> >> GEORGE FLOYD.
SAY HIS NAME.
TRE: -- IS YET ANOTHER HASH TAG TO ADD ON THE LIST.
>> HOW MANY TIMES DOES IT HAVE TO HAPPEN FOR PEOPLE TO COME TO THE REALIZATION THAT IT NEEDS TO STOP?
TRE: AS PROTESTS CONTINUE D THROUGHOUT THE DAY INDOORS, INSIDE CITY HALL -- >> I GET IT.
I’M TIRED.
YOU’RE FRUSTRATED.
I’M FRUSTRATED.
WE’RE ALL FRUSTRATED.
TRE: -- WERE CALLS FOR PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATIONS, WITH A WARNING TO ANY OUTSIDE TROUBLEMAKERS.
>> THE CITIZENS OF BALTIMORE KNOW HOW TO PROTEST PEACEFULLY.
WE DON’T WANT THESE AGITATORS COMING INTO OUR CITY TO HELP BURN AND LOOT STORES.
>> PLEASE, LET’S LIVE ANOTHER DAY TO FIGHT.
TRE: SOON AFTER MAKING THOSE CALLS, CROWDS LEAVING THE FINISHED MOTORCADE TOOK TO CITY HALL.
OFFICERS FORCED TO BARRICADE THE BUILDING AS A PRECAUTION.
>> HEY HEY, HO HO.
RACIST COPS HAVE GOT TO GO.
TRE: AS A SIMILAR PAIN CONNECTS MULTIPLE RALLIES THROUGHOUT THE NATION.
>> IT’S NOT FAIR, MAN.
TRE: BALTIMORE DEMONSTRATORS TELLING US THEY’RE FIGHTING TO BE THE VOICE.
>> NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE.
TRE: FOR CHANGE.
>> I WANT EVERYBODY TO FEEL LIKE WE HAVE A CHANCE, THAT WE HAVE RIGHTS.
I WANT EVERYBODY TO ACCEPT US, BECAUSE WE HAVEN’T BEEN ACCEPTED FOR SO LONG.
TRE: AS MENTIONED, DEMONSTRATORS RIGHT NOW ARE BEING TOLD TO DISPERSE AND GO HOME.
POLICE TELL US THEY WILL BE HERE UNTIL THE PROTESTERS OVER.
KAI: WE HAVE BEEN PAYING ATTENTION TO YOUR TWEETS ALL DAY.
YOU HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT HOW IT WAS SO PEACEFUL EARLIER.
WE HAVE SEEN THAT SHIP OVER THE PAST FEW HOURS.
ARE YOU NOTICING ANYTHING DIFFERENT ABOUT THE CROWD TONIGHT VERSUS EARLIER TODAY AND WHEN YOU WERE THERE LAST NIGHT?
TRE: THE FIRST THING THAT COMES TO MIND IS WHAT MAYOR JACK YOUNG SAID EARLIER IN WARNED THE PROTESTERS HERE CANNOT BE RILED UP BY WHAT HE CALLED AGITATORS.
WE HAVE SEEN PEOPLE COME WITH FIRECRACKERS, POPPING FIRECRACKERS IN FRONT OF POLICE THEY WERE THROWING PLASTIC BOTTLES WITH WHAT LOOKED LIKE CLEAR LIQUID INSIDE.
WE ARE NOT SURE WHAT WAS INSIDE OF THAT, BUT THEY WERE THROWING THINGS AT POLICE OFFICERS.
THERE WAS ALSO A POLICE CRUISER THAT WAS DAMAGED.
THROUGHOUT THE DAY, AS MENTIONED, IT HAS BEEN PEACEFUL THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
WITHIN THE LAST HOUR AND A HALF, THOSE AGITATORS REALLY RILING UP THINGS.
POLICE OFFICERS NOW COMING OUT WITH RIGHT DEAR.
WE ARE TOLD -- WITH RIOT GEAR.
WE ARE TOLD TEARGAS WAS USED.
THE BIG DIFFERENCE IS HUNDREDS OUT HERE.
LAST NIGHT AS WE REPORTED, IT WAS JUST A FEW DOZEN.
WE SEEM TO BE INVITED WITHIN THE CROWD OF PEOPLE.
WE HAD A CREW ON THE SCENE THAT APPARENTLY WAS ATTACKED BY A FEW DEMONSTRATORS.
OUR CAMERA GEAR WAS SPRAYED WITH BLACK SPRAY PAINT.
DEFINITELY A VOLATILE SITUATION, DIFFERENT FROM YESTERDAY, WHICH WAS MOSTLY PEACEFUL.
TODAY MOSTLY PEACEFUL UNTIL ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF AGO.
KAI: THANK YOU.