In the early morning, as the cold set in, Anaya Maze stood next to the charred remains of a CVS store.
Holding a sign, she was the only protester left in front of a line of police officers dressed in riot gear. She is petite. Still, she faced the police officers, looking at them intently.
A few steps away were the charred skeletons of two police vehicles, the victims of an unbridled anger that burned its way through the west side of Baltimore.
Maze said she understands the anger. For far too long, she said, police have been killing black men. She says Baltimore had this coming. All the violence, she says, might finally change things.
"I see no shame in being violent to be heard," she said. "Because if you can't do it peacefully than what other option do you have."
Last night, after Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan had declared a state of emergency and ordered the National Guard into the city, rioters still roamed the streets; fires still burned and residents still stood on their stoops, on their sidewalks, trying to understand the anger that boiled over into riots.
[For more of this story, written by Eyder Peralta, go to http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetw...understand-the-anger]
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