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[h=4]Baltimore awakes to devastation[/h]The governor of Maryland declared a state of emergency Monday after the streets of Baltimore erupted in violence after the funeral for an African-American man who died of injuries he sustained while in police custody.
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As the sun came up in Baltimore Tuesday morning, the damage left behind by violent riots could be clearly seen. Buildings were burned and stores were destroyed. The governor declared a state of emergency in Baltimore. VPC
The remains of a senior center set ablaze during night riots smoldesr at dawn on Tuesday in Baltimore.(Photo: Mark Makela, Getty Images)
BALTIMORE -- Schools were closed and streets were quiet but wreckage was everywhere as the city awoke Tuesday from a night of tumult and violence.
Just hours after Freddie Gray was laid to rest, protests against police deteriorated into devastating riots. Roving bands of looters, some armed with crowbars, roamed the city, hurling rocks at police, destroying patrol cars, smashing store windows and torching buildings.
More than a dozen police officers were injured, six of the seriously, Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said in a news conference late Monday. One officer was hit in the head and another suffered severe damage to his knee cap, Batts said.
"All are going to be OK but sustained heavy damage to their bodies," he said, adding that he believes that the tensions were easing. Still, authorities ordered another 10 p.m. curfew for Tuesday night.
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Residents of Baltimore are dealing with the damage left behind by thousands of rioters who looted stores and set buildings on fire. WUSA-TV
Batts said it appeared that a number of gangs met and decided that each group would "take out a police officer" after Monday's funeral of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who suffered a fatal spinal injury after being in police custody.
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Social media was alive with "#purge" before and during the mayhem, an apparent allusion to the film The Purge, which featured a 12-hour period in which any crime was legal.
Batts implored parents to take control of their children who might be taking part in the rioting. He said some of the structures that were being destroyed took great effort to erect in ailing communities that need them. Many communities do not survive riots, he said.
"I've seen cities that haven't recovered 50 years later," he said.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency in the city and activated the National Guard to assist city and state police, calling it a "last resort'' to restore order. Up to 5,000 guard members could be called; Hogan said another 5,000 officers from neighboring police departments were being pressed into city.
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake called the rioters "thugs" and said the city was imposing a 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew starting Tuesday. She said she asked Hogan to send in the Guard.
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"We are deploying every resource possible to gain control of the situation and ensure peace moving forward,'' she said.
Referring to the looters, she said during a television interview: "I don't understand how stealing jeans is going to bring justice to Mr. Gray."
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She said the city would get to the bottom of whether the rioters were from Baltimore or from outside the city. "We won't stand by and let our community be destroyed," Rawlings-Blake said.
The Baltimore Orioles postponed a scheduled Monday night game with the Chicago White Sox. The violence was taking place about two and a half miles from the Camden Yards baseball stadium that is home to the Orioles.
Police said more than two dozen people were arrested. The city's schools were canceled for Tuesday.
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After darkness fell, a large building under construction near a Baptist church was engulfed in fire. A spokesman for the mayor, Kevin Harris, said the fire was related to the riots. He said the Mary Harvin Transformation Center was under construction and that no one was believed to be in the building at the time. The center is described online as a community-based organization that supports youth and families.
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch dispatched the Justice Department's civil rights chief and director of the agency's community policing office to Baltimore in wake of rioting there. She condemned "senseless acts of violence.''
"In the days ahead, I intend to work with leaders throughout Baltimore to ensure that we can protect the security and civil rights of all residents,'' Lynch said. "And I will bring the full resources of the Department of Justice to bear in protecting those under threat, investigating wrongdoing, and securing an end to violence.''
Contributing: Melanie Eversley
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