The Baltimore riots: the night on Periscope - video
Using live streaming app Periscope the Guardian's Paul Lewis broadcast from Baltimore's riots, observing a community making sense of the chaos. The stream began in the west side of the city, two blocks from the church used hours earlier for the funeral of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old black man whose death in police custody sparked the riots.
Paul travels from the west side of the city, near the epicentre of the violence, to the east, capturing the reactions of local residents along the way. He interviews two men who protected the battered owners of a looted liquor store, but has to cut short the broadcast when confronted by looters who did not want to be filmed. Later, he joins Pastor Donte Hickman as he discovers his church's $16 community housing project in flames. "This is not the justice we seek," he says. "This is chaos and confusion." Paul ends on the corner of a ransacked street, talking to Cynthia Brooks, the heartbroken owner of a nearby homeless shelter.
Paul travels from the west side of the city, near the epicentre of the violence, to the east, capturing the reactions of local residents along the way. He interviews two men who protected the battered owners of a looted liquor store, but has to cut short the broadcast when confronted by looters who did not want to be filmed. Later, he joins Pastor Donte Hickman as he discovers his church's $16 community housing project in flames. "This is not the justice we seek," he says. "This is chaos and confusion." Paul ends on the corner of a ransacked street, talking to Cynthia Brooks, the heartbroken owner of a nearby homeless shelter.