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I mean, it feels like I'm in Iraq

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right now, or some other country.

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It does not feel like America. I see

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my military deployed in my city.

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It's not something you can grow

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accustomed to. I'd say, yeah, I do

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feel safer.

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Other man: Nah, I don't feel safer.

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Woman: Having police here is wonderful!

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Young woman: It makes me feel

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repressed. I don't feel safe.

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Narrator: After protests marked by

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violence earlier this week,

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nearly 5000 extra National Guard and

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police are patrolling Baltimore, but the

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reactions to that force differ depending

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on the neighborhood.

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(offscreen) It's nice to have the

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police presence here. It makes you

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feel safe, but at the same time

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you're like, "Keep your distance

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'cause don't bring the trouble to us."

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(narrator) Though most of the violent

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police clashes took place two miles north

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and west of the inner harbor and business

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district, people here seem to welcome the

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increased security.

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(Woman) "I had no idea how much of a

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presence the National Guard had down

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here. I'd never seen a machine gun in

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person that close, so that was a little

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bit of a shock. It makes you feel safe,

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but at the same time you're just kind of

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waiting for the trouble to follow.

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(Man offscreen) I would say, yeah, I do

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feel safer based on the needs today,

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you know, with the dangers of the rioting

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and everything. But it's certainly not

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something that I'd like to need.

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(Other man) For some reason getting

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things done in Baltimore City is a

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problem. It's hard, it's always an issue.

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A situation like this? We shoulda had this

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handled a long time ago.

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(Woman) When I walked into the Pratt

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Street Pavilion, going into my business,

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I cried from seeing all of this uniformed

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security. The security is something we all

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need to protect the workers, the people

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that live here, even to protect the

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sixteen year olds not to do any more

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harm.

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(Man) Downtown's going to be protected,

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absolutely, because that's the money maker

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Mt. Vernon, Fell's Point, the Harbor.

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(narrator) But in West Baltimore, blocks

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where Freddie Gray was arrested and around

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the corner from where demonstrations

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turned violent on Monday,

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residents have a starkly different

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reaction to the increased presence of

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Baltimore City and Maryland state police.

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(Man) I can't say I don't trust the police

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I don't trust the motives of some officers

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that are here to uphold the law.

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Me, as a black man, with the police at

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this heightened sense right now, this

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heightened time, I don't feel safer.

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They put blue light cameras in our

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community years ago they said would make

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us feel safer. Not at all.

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They said they were gonna put these

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body cameras on officers that are gonna

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make us feel safer. We still get shot.

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Killed. With the body cameras.

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It just shows you the disconnection

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between community and government.

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(Woman) I feel like they need

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to get to the bottom of how this all

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started. We need someone that's relatable

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with you to make you feel safe and they

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can't relate to us and our struggle, so

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that doesn't make me feel safe. That makes

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me feel repressed.

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I've been here going on eleven years

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First time anything like this has happened

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since I've been here. I think it'll go

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back to normal. I think that the cops

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being here are making some people more

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upset than they probably normally would be

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(Patron) I'll tell you as a patron, I came

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here today and I wanted to take a step

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back and I know I didn't do anything wrong

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I still was like, "Woah!" It's overkill.

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Eight cops right here, right now.

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(other man) You know it's just like

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that's an overwhelming amount of force.

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And why should you make the whole city

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suffer for a small pocket of people?

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You know what I'm saying?

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It's like, that's insane.

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(Woman) Nobody here feels safe or feels

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like the police works for them. No,

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I know that nobody feels like that.

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I don't feel like that. I never feel like

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anytime, anywhere I am the police is

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working for me. I don't think...no, I

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don't feel like that at all. I know that.