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Violence and looting overtook much of West Baltimore on Monday, injuring more than a dozen police officers and leaving a store and several vehicles in flames.
As night fell, looters took to Mondawmin Mall and a Save-A-Lot and Rite Aid in Bolton Hill, loading up cars with stolen goods. A large building at Chester and Gay streets was engulfed in flames.
Fifteen police officers were injured in a clash with school-age children that began around 3 p.m., and two remain hospitalized, police Col. Darryl DeSousa said in a press conference Monday night. Earlier, police spokesman Capt. Eric Kowalczyk said one officer was unresponsive and others suffered broken bones.
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake declared a curfew across the city starting Tuesday and for the next week, from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. for adults and 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. for children aged 14 and younger. She drew a distinction between peaceful protesters and “thugs” she said engaged in rioting Monday intend on “destroying our city.”
“It’s idiotic to think that by destroying your city, you’re going to make life better for anybody,” Rawlings-Blake said.
At Rawlings-Blake's request, Gov. Larry Hogan signed an executive order declaring a state of emergency and activating the Maryland National Guard. The order does not affect citizens' rights, but is required to activate the Guard and authorize federal assistance, Hogan spokeswoman Erin Montgomery said. It is not "martial law", Maryland National Guard Adjutant General Linda Singh said.
The governor is sending 500 state troopers to Baltimore and requesting as many as 5,000 officers from neighboring states, he said in a press conference.
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"Today’s looting and acts of violence in Baltimore will not be tolerated," he said in a statement. "I strongly condemn the actions of the offenders who are engaged in direct attacks against innocent civilians, businesses and law enforcement officers. There is a significant difference between protesting and violence and those committing these acts will be prosecuted under the fullest extent of the law."
The incident stemmed from a flier that circulated widely among city school students via social media about a “purge” to take place at 3 p.m., starting at Mondawmin Mall and ending downtown. Such memes have been known to circulate regularly among city school students, based on the film "The Purge," about what would happen if all laws were suspended.
Police confront protesters at Mondawmin Mall
Police confront protesters Monday at Mondawmin Mall. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/Baltimore Sun)
The flier included an image of protesters smashing the windshield of a police car Saturday during a march spurred by the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old man who suffered a spinal cord injury earlier this month after being arrested by city police.
Kowalczyk would not speculate on whether the incident was related to Gray’s death.
The confrontation near Mondawmin escalated quickly. Smoke filled the air as police responded with shields and a tactical vehicle. Demonstrators pelted officers with rocks, bricks and bottles and assaulted a photojournalist, and officers fired back with tear gas and pepper balls.
Demonstrators set a police vehicle ablaze at North and Pennsylvania avenues. Nearby, they looted a CVS drug store, which store officials said had already closed, before it caught fire. Rioters cut the fire hose as firefighters battled the blaze.
Looting spread along Howard and Centre streets as afternoon turned to evening. Another group of people was destroying property around North and Fulton avenues, police said, and a car was set on fire at North Avenue and Pulaski Street.
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Kowalczyk called the demonstrators “lawless individuals with no regard for the safety of people that live in that community” and said they would be identified and arrested. Police said via Twitter many of the rioters were juveniles and urged parents to bring their children home.
While officials had expected additional protests on the same day Gray was mourned and buried, the scale of the unrest took them by surprise, U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings told CNN.
"We never expected anything like this," he said.
Rawlings-Blake activated the city's emergency operation center just before 6 p.m. to coordinate response to the riots.
Days of protest after Freddie Gray's death
Days of protest after Freddie Gray's death
Police were preparing for rioting to make its way downtown, with officers in helmets and carrying shields stationed at Lexington Market and the Inner Harbor. Maryland State Police sent 40 troopers to the city, said Keiffer Mitchell, a top aide to Gov. Larry Hogan. Several other jurisdictions, including Baltimore and Howard counties, sent officers to assist.
All but one gate to Oriole Park at Camden Yards was closed, with a game set to begin at 7:05 p.m. But team officials postponed the game less than an hour before first pitch was scheduled.
About five stores in the 600 block of Eutaw Street had busted windows and were looted after rioters came through about 4 p.m. Joe Lewis, 41, of Cherry Hill, said he and his brother tried to stop the rioters and urged them to move on.
“If [police] don’t stop what they’re doing, I wouldn’t care if they called Jesus or the law down here,” he said. “They’re going to see a side of them they wish they never brought out.”
Boubacar Sall said looters destroyed his sister’s store, Benita’s. They stole hair extensions, a television set and boxes of hair products.
Rishan George, who lives on the block, said, “you call 911 and nobody answers.”
Looters were loading up cars behind a Rite-Aid, Save-A-Lot and hardware store on McMechen Street in Bolton Hill. Neighbors shouted at them and photographed their license plates.
Janice McCulley, the hardware store's owner, said she was "devastated" but added, "It's just damage."
Earlier Monday afternoon, the threat of protests prompted police to urge downtown businesses and institutions to close, including the University of Maryland, Baltimore, Lexington Market, a city courthouse and businesses including T. Rowe Price and Venable LLP.
Two city recreation centers in West Baltimore, the Robert C. Marshall Recreation Center in Upton and Lillian Jones Recreation Center in Sandtown-Winchester, closed early. All Pratt Library branches closed early.
Public officials condemned the riots.
“For us to come out of the burial and into this, it’s absolutely inexcusable,” said the Rev. Jamal H. Bryant, who hours earlier delivered Gray's eulogy. “Violence is not the answer for justice.”
City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young took to video streaming app Periscope to urge the rioters to stop.
Weekend protest
Caption Weekend protest
Karl Merton Ferron, Baltimore Sun
With their backs to the camera (from left) Baltimoreans Victoria Thobe and Noah Smith hold hands in front of lines of police, some on horseback, on Howard Street at the Convention Center after a large protest dispersed from Baltimore's City Hall over the recent death of local resident Freddie Gray, while in police custody. A number of people have been arrested and there have been reported injuries as a small faction, some youths, damaged vehicles and store fronts.
Weekend protests
Caption Weekend protests
Algerina Perna, Baltimore Sun
Police and protestors line up against each other across from Camden Yards.
Weekend protest
Caption Weekend protest
Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun
Baltimore police officers take a protester into custody at Pratt and Howard during Saturday's Freddie Gray protest
Freddie Gray wake
Caption Freddie Gray wake
Algerina Perna, Baltimore Sun
Friends and family pay their respects at the viewing for Freddie Gray at Vaughn Greene Funeral Home.
Destruction downtown
Caption Destruction downtown
Amy Davis, Baltimore Sun
A pedestrian looks at the broken glass windows, temporarily repaired with tape, at the 7-11 on the northwest corner of North Howard and West Baltimore streets.
“I am asking all of you out there looting to stop it. Please stop it. It’s hurting the city of Baltimore in more ways than one. We you loot the CVS store that means that your relatives who work in those stores can’t go to work, so they can’t get paid. There’s a ripple effect. This has gone from being a protest to rioting. This is not the protesters. These are people rioting and destroying property and looting. We have to put an end to it.”
Former Gov. Martin O'Malley urged the city to come together and said he would return early from a trip to Ireland.
"I'm saddened that the City I love is in such pain this night. "All of us share a profound feeling of grief for Freddie Gray and his family," he said in a statement. "We must come together as one City to transform this moment of loss and pain into a safer and more just future for all of Baltimore
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City schools officials said staff would make grief counselors available for students. They canceled classes for Tuesday.
“We are deeply concerned about our students and community, and we hope to treat this situation not only as a teachable moment but also a time for thoughtful reflection on how we can reduce conflict and violence in our society,” schools officials said in a statement.
City officials said roads near Mondawmin Mall are closed, as well as and North and Pennsylvania avenues. Downtown streets were also closed, including Fayette St. between President and Gay streets near police headquarters. Also closed is the southbound Jones Falls Express exit for Fayette Street.
The Metro was shut down between the Mondawmin and Lexington Market stations.
Violence and looting overtook much of West Baltimore on Monday, injuring more than a dozen police officers and leaving a store and several vehicles in flames.
As night fell, looters took to Mondawmin Mall and a Save-A-Lot and Rite Aid in Bolton Hill, loading up cars with stolen goods. A large building at Chester and Gay streets was engulfed in flames.
Fifteen police officers were injured in a clash with school-age children that began around 3 p.m., and two remain hospitalized, police Col. Darryl DeSousa said in a press conference Monday night. Earlier, police spokesman Capt. Eric Kowalczyk said one officer was unresponsive and others suffered broken bones.
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake declared a curfew across the city starting Tuesday and for the next week, from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. for adults and 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. for children aged 14 and younger. She drew a distinction between peaceful protesters and “thugs” she said engaged in rioting Monday intend on “destroying our city.”
“It’s idiotic to think that by destroying your city, you’re going to make life better for anybody,” Rawlings-Blake said.
At Rawlings-Blake's request, Gov. Larry Hogan signed an executive order declaring a state of emergency and activating the Maryland National Guard. The order does not affect citizens' rights, but is required to activate the Guard and authorize federal assistance, Hogan spokeswoman Erin Montgomery said. It is not "martial law", Maryland National Guard Adjutant General Linda Singh said.
The governor is sending 500 state troopers to Baltimore and requesting as many as 5,000 officers from neighboring states, he said in a press conference.
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"Today’s looting and acts of violence in Baltimore will not be tolerated," he said in a statement. "I strongly condemn the actions of the offenders who are engaged in direct attacks against innocent civilians, businesses and law enforcement officers. There is a significant difference between protesting and violence and those committing these acts will be prosecuted under the fullest extent of the law."
The incident stemmed from a flier that circulated widely among city school students via social media about a “purge” to take place at 3 p.m., starting at Mondawmin Mall and ending downtown. Such memes have been known to circulate regularly among city school students, based on the film "The Purge," about what would happen if all laws were suspended.
Police confront protesters at Mondawmin Mall
Police confront protesters Monday at Mondawmin Mall. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/Baltimore Sun)
The flier included an image of protesters smashing the windshield of a police car Saturday during a march spurred by the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old man who suffered a spinal cord injury earlier this month after being arrested by city police.
Kowalczyk would not speculate on whether the incident was related to Gray’s death.
The confrontation near Mondawmin escalated quickly. Smoke filled the air as police responded with shields and a tactical vehicle. Demonstrators pelted officers with rocks, bricks and bottles and assaulted a photojournalist, and officers fired back with tear gas and pepper balls.
Demonstrators set a police vehicle ablaze at North and Pennsylvania avenues. Nearby, they looted a CVS drug store, which store officials said had already closed, before it caught fire. Rioters cut the fire hose as firefighters battled the blaze.
Looting spread along Howard and Centre streets as afternoon turned to evening. Another group of people was destroying property around North and Fulton avenues, police said, and a car was set on fire at North Avenue and Pulaski Street.
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Kowalczyk called the demonstrators “lawless individuals with no regard for the safety of people that live in that community” and said they would be identified and arrested. Police said via Twitter many of the rioters were juveniles and urged parents to bring their children home.
While officials had expected additional protests on the same day Gray was mourned and buried, the scale of the unrest took them by surprise, U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings told CNN.
"We never expected anything like this," he said.
Rawlings-Blake activated the city's emergency operation center just before 6 p.m. to coordinate response to the riots.
Days of protest after Freddie Gray's death
Days of protest after Freddie Gray's death
Police were preparing for rioting to make its way downtown, with officers in helmets and carrying shields stationed at Lexington Market and the Inner Harbor. Maryland State Police sent 40 troopers to the city, said Keiffer Mitchell, a top aide to Gov. Larry Hogan. Several other jurisdictions, including Baltimore and Howard counties, sent officers to assist.
All but one gate to Oriole Park at Camden Yards was closed, with a game set to begin at 7:05 p.m. But team officials postponed the game less than an hour before first pitch was scheduled.
About five stores in the 600 block of Eutaw Street had busted windows and were looted after rioters came through about 4 p.m. Joe Lewis, 41, of Cherry Hill, said he and his brother tried to stop the rioters and urged them to move on.
“If [police] don’t stop what they’re doing, I wouldn’t care if they called Jesus or the law down here,” he said. “They’re going to see a side of them they wish they never brought out.”
Boubacar Sall said looters destroyed his sister’s store, Benita’s. They stole hair extensions, a television set and boxes of hair products.
Rishan George, who lives on the block, said, “you call 911 and nobody answers.”
Looters were loading up cars behind a Rite-Aid, Save-A-Lot and hardware store on McMechen Street in Bolton Hill. Neighbors shouted at them and photographed their license plates.
Janice McCulley, the hardware store's owner, said she was "devastated" but added, "It's just damage."
Earlier Monday afternoon, the threat of protests prompted police to urge downtown businesses and institutions to close, including the University of Maryland, Baltimore, Lexington Market, a city courthouse and businesses including T. Rowe Price and Venable LLP.
Two city recreation centers in West Baltimore, the Robert C. Marshall Recreation Center in Upton and Lillian Jones Recreation Center in Sandtown-Winchester, closed early. All Pratt Library branches closed early.
Public officials condemned the riots.
“For us to come out of the burial and into this, it’s absolutely inexcusable,” said the Rev. Jamal H. Bryant, who hours earlier delivered Gray's eulogy. “Violence is not the answer for justice.”
City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young took to video streaming app Periscope to urge the rioters to stop.
Weekend protest
Caption Weekend protest
Karl Merton Ferron, Baltimore Sun
With their backs to the camera (from left) Baltimoreans Victoria Thobe and Noah Smith hold hands in front of lines of police, some on horseback, on Howard Street at the Convention Center after a large protest dispersed from Baltimore's City Hall over the recent death of local resident Freddie Gray, while in police custody. A number of people have been arrested and there have been reported injuries as a small faction, some youths, damaged vehicles and store fronts.
Weekend protests
Caption Weekend protests
Algerina Perna, Baltimore Sun
Police and protestors line up against each other across from Camden Yards.
Weekend protest
Caption Weekend protest
Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun
Baltimore police officers take a protester into custody at Pratt and Howard during Saturday's Freddie Gray protest
Freddie Gray wake
Caption Freddie Gray wake
Algerina Perna, Baltimore Sun
Friends and family pay their respects at the viewing for Freddie Gray at Vaughn Greene Funeral Home.
Destruction downtown
Caption Destruction downtown
Amy Davis, Baltimore Sun
A pedestrian looks at the broken glass windows, temporarily repaired with tape, at the 7-11 on the northwest corner of North Howard and West Baltimore streets.
“I am asking all of you out there looting to stop it. Please stop it. It’s hurting the city of Baltimore in more ways than one. We you loot the CVS store that means that your relatives who work in those stores can’t go to work, so they can’t get paid. There’s a ripple effect. This has gone from being a protest to rioting. This is not the protesters. These are people rioting and destroying property and looting. We have to put an end to it.”
Former Gov. Martin O'Malley urged the city to come together and said he would return early from a trip to Ireland.
"I'm saddened that the City I love is in such pain this night. "All of us share a profound feeling of grief for Freddie Gray and his family," he said in a statement. "We must come together as one City to transform this moment of loss and pain into a safer and more just future for all of Baltimore
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City schools officials said staff would make grief counselors available for students. They canceled classes for Tuesday.
“We are deeply concerned about our students and community, and we hope to treat this situation not only as a teachable moment but also a time for thoughtful reflection on how we can reduce conflict and violence in our society,” schools officials said in a statement.
City officials said roads near Mondawmin Mall are closed, as well as and North and Pennsylvania avenues. Downtown streets were also closed, including Fayette St. between President and Gay streets near police headquarters. Also closed is the southbound Jones Falls Express exit for Fayette Street.
The Metro was shut down between the Mondawmin and Lexington Market stations.
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Listening to the police scanner for balitmore. Shits nuts. They said shots fired and to be careful cuz people got guns on the street.
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