A pair of Baltimore residents found themselves confronted by a line of riot police during the unrest after Freddie Gray’s death. Photos by Byron Smith
After Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old Baltimore resident, died on April 19 from a severed spinal cord suffered a week earlier following his arrest by police, protests and rioting rocked the Mid-Atlantic city. A number of buildings, including a large CVS store, and more than 100 cars were torched in several neighborhoods. The National Guard was called in, and New Jersey and Pennsylvania also sent police. A curfew was imposed and the public was barred from Baltimore Orioles baseball games. Gray’s was the latest in a string of deaths of unarmed black men while being arrested or in police custody which have fueled the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Firefighters battled blazes in residential buildings during the rioting.A phalanx of Baltimore police, sporting plexiglas shields, leg guards and extra-long clubs, held a line on the streets during the turmoil.On Mon., April 26, protesters faced off with police after the 10 p.m. curfew during the second day of riots following Gray’s funeral.Connor Wolf, a reporter from the Daily Caller, received aid from fellow reporters after he was slugged in the face by a rioter on the first night of the violence in Baltimore.On Tues., April 27, a youth tried to restrain a girl who had been involved in a minor scuffle that had been broken up around the corner from where police were holding a line.
Protesters rejoiced on Fri., May 1, hours after charges were brought against six Baltimore police officers in Gray’s death.
