Declared the governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan, Monday, a state of emergency in the city of Baltimore as a result of violent protests in the city, after the funeral of Freddie Gray, a dark-skinned, who died of wounds sustained while in custody.
The governor issued an order declaring a state of emergency at the request of the city, and mobilized the National Guard (Reservists) To meet the growing violence in Baltimore, according to a statement.
The 7 Of the police force were wounded in a confrontation with hundreds of young people in the city after the funeral of Gray.
The demonstrators threw stones at a bus and damaged a police vehicle north west of the city, as well as many private cars and garbage containers, while security forces tried to disperse the demonstrators with tear gas.
Baltimore police are investigating the death of a young man who died of his wounds sustained during his arrest, recognizing that it did not provide medical assistance to Freddie Gray, despite his request that accident.
And this re-located to the minds of the protests, which came out last summer in Ferguson (Missouri) In the wake of the killing of the young man with dark skin also Michael Brown at the hands of a policeman.
Came the death of Freddie Gray in a period of great tension in the United States between the various local police and citizens of African origin after recent months have seen similar cases of police ill-treatment of people with brown skin detainees.
(AlMasry Alyoum)
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