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Baltimore protests: Wake for Freddie Gray after night of scuffles
Baltimore protests: Wake for Freddie Gray after night of scuffles
Baltimore protests: Wake for Freddie Gray after night of scuffles
Baltimore protests: Wake for Freddie Gray after night of scuffles
Baltimore Riots Freddie Gray
Baltimore Riots Freddie Gray
Baltimore Riots Freddie Gray
Baltimore Riots Freddie Gray
As a funeral home opened its doors for Freddie Gray's wake Sunday, a few store owners were clearing the mess from the destruction caused by a handful of protesters the night before.
The vast majority of protesters who took to Baltimore's streets late Saturday were peaceful, but the handful who weren't left behind shards, rubble and dents.
Employees at a looted 7-Eleven cleaned up the aftermath and boarded up the windows, CNN affiliate WJZ reported.
The demonstration was aimed at police, who had Gray in their custody when he suffered injuries that would prove fatal.
Baltimore police said 35 people, including four juveniles, were arrested and six officers suffered minor injuries during the latest protest.
Before Sunday's wake, Gray's family members called for agitators to stop the destruction.
"My family wants to say, 'Can y'all please, please stop the violence,'" the victim's twin sister, Fredericka Gray, said Saturday night. "Freddie Gray would not want this."
News of her brother's smashed upper spine and officers' delay in getting him medical care has triggered outrage, and people are demanding justice for the latest-known African-American man to die violently after an encounter with white police officers.
Baltimore's faith leaders joined the mayor Sunday night for a renewed call for peaceful protests.
The violence witnessed the night before "is something that is unacceptable to me," Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said. "It is something unacceptable to everyone who lives in and loves our city."
Baltimore citizens are encouraged to voice their concerns -- even their anger -- but in a peaceful manner, the mayor said.
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Agitators, riot gear
For a week, people have spilled into Baltimore's streets in peaceful demonstrations.
And Saturday, they continued. Marchers chanted in unison, "All night, all day; we're gonna fight for Freddie Gray." Poster board signs speckled the crowd. Some people wore T-shirts reading, "Black lives matter."
The crowd marched up to a line of police, most of whom were not wearing riot gear. Officers and squad cars backed away, as the crowd chanted "Please go home."
But the peaceful rapport came to an end when police in riot gear tried to hold a line, and a few protesters vandalized police cars, threw objects at officers, cursed at them and scuffled with them.
About a dozen young men smashed squad cars with garbage cans, climbed on top of them and stomped on them.
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At least two journalists were swept up in the scuffles.
Baltimore City Paper reported that its photo editor, J.M. Giordano, was tackled and beaten by police while covering the protests.
According to the paper, Giordano was standing near protesters when someone threw a rock at police. The police responded, and Giordano was unable to get out of the way.
"They just swarmed over me," he said. "I got hit. My head hit the ground. They were hitting me, then someone pulled me out."
The incident was caught on video, which Baltimore City Paper posted online.
Separately, Reuters photographer Sait Serkan Gurbuz confirmed via Twitter that Baltimore police detained him Saturday night.
The police called the detention of the two journalists inadvertent.
"One journalist (Gurbuz) was released with a criminal citation, which is being recalled," a police statement said. "One journalist
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