injuries, a week after his arrest for carrying a knife; over four thousand people turned out to protest.
But the mood later turned
ugly as some groups fanned out across the city and went on the rampage.
Local television footage
showed a crowd hurling traffic cones, bottles, bins and even a crowd-control
barrier at police.
They also smashed store
windows, looted merchandise and vandalised at least five police cars.
Street signs were torn
down, and a rock was thrown through a female motorist's car window, local news
media reported.
A rowdy crowd faced off
against officers in front of Camden Yards, home of the Orioles baseball team,
whose game against the Boston Red Sox took place as scheduled.
Fans were asked to stay
briefly inside the stadium toward the end of the game "due to an ongoing
public safety issue" outside. Attendance was more than 36,000.
Police said on Sunday that
34 people were arrested and six officers suffered minor injuries.
Mayor Stephanie
Rawlings-Blake said she was "profoundly disappointed" by the
violence, which she blamed on "a small group of agitators".
Speakers at the rally
called for President Barack Obama to launch a national inquiry into police
misconduct.
"It has to stop. It
really has to stop because it could have been any one of us," a young male
adult member of Mr Gray's extended family told the crowd.
On Friday, Baltimore's
police commissioner said officers failed to provide Mr Gray with timely medical
attention for a spinal injury after he was put inside a police van on 12 April.Authorities have not
explained how or when Mr Gray's spine was injured.
Six Baltimore police
officers have been suspended in the case, and an internal police investigation
is under way.
The department will turn
over the findings to state prosecutors and an independent review will follow.
but this bad treatment towards coloured pple have to stop enough is enough
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