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VELSHI: There are at least four fires that I can see, and that’s just in this small radius that Morgan and I are in. Obviously some of them are very active. This one has very obviously spread to the buildings on either side of it, the liquor store and the shop to the left. But there’s no ability — and I just think we have to remember this. The National Guard has been activated. They are not here. The police are not here. The police have been evacuated. The fire engines can’t get in here. There’s no ability to bring anybody in here to solve this problem. I want to be clear on how I characterize this. This is mostly a protest. It is not generally speaking unruly. But fires have been started, and there’s a crowd that is relishing that. There is a deep sense of grievance and complaint here, and that is the thing. When you discount people who are doing things to public property that they shouldn’t be doing, it does have to be understood that this city has got, for the last several years, an issue with police, and it’s got a real sense of the deep sense of grievance of inequality.