Tuesday, April 28, 2015

State of Emergency declared in Baltimore as the city burns with violence

  Police van ablaze: Television images showed mobs of rioters jumping on top of a police car, destroying a taxi and setting two other patrol cars on fire after teenaged crowds ignored calls to disperse and clashed with lines of hundreds of police

The city of Baltimore has been thrown into uncontrollable Violence immediately after Freddie Grey was buried on Monday in a ceremony attended by 2500 people, Freddie gray an African American sustained a spinal cord injuries in a police custody that lead to his death April 19th.more than 1000 police officers, Maryland National Guard and 5000,officers from neigboring state are on standby to combat the war zone like situation

15 police officer has been injured ,some with broken bones,1 unresponsive and 2 of the 15 hospitalized and about 27 people arrest,shops has been set on fire, police van and TV crew bus,a $16 million nursing home set ablaze reduce to rubble, liquor shops and gun shop looted, rifles been passed to people in the street.3 different gang in the city has formed alliance to kick out the police from the city.
President Obama has been briefed about the situation.the family of the victim denounce the riot.

State of emergency: Baltimore is in flames and the Maryland National Guard is on standby as riots escalate after Freddie Gray's funeral


Devastating: This is the scene of a fire which burned down a $16 million nursing home that a Baptist church spent eight years building

A man has his eyes cleaned after he was pepper sprayed by the Baltimore Police as violence escalated in Maryland's largest city

Pastors hit out at the rioters as the night sky burned orange from the flames of the building which would have housed 60 elderly people



Fire fight: A Baltimore police cruiser burned after being set alight on Monday following the outbreak of riots in the troubled city

Eleven police officers have been injured, many with broken bones, and at least one appeared ‘unresponsive’

More than 1,000 police officers and the Maryland National Guard have arrived in the city as violence escalates 

Smoke billows from a CVS Pharmacy store in  Baltimore on Monday evening after looters raided the store and set it alight


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