March of the looters: Security footage shows gang smashing their way into Baltimore store and emptying shelves
- CCTV captures man using sledgehammer to smash in door
- Some wear hoodies and caps while other brazenly show face to camera
- Looters fill their arms with anything they can carry
- 100 defiant protesters remained in the streets after curfew last night
Shocking footage has emerged of a group using a sledgehammer to reportedly break into a store and loot it during Monday night's violent riots in Baltimore.
The security camera has captured five people inside the unknown store, stealing a number of items from the shelves.
One man manages to squeeze through a hole in the door before using the weapon to smash out the panels so the others can get in more easily.
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Getting in: The first person gets in to the unknown store in Baltimore during Monday night's riots
Breaking in: CCTV footage shows the man breaking the door to let other people in before they appear to loot the store
Some of the group wear hoodies, baseball caps and balaclavas in a token effort to hide their faces, while later shots show more the brazen looters with no attempt at a disguise.
They then start to empty the shelves with what they can carry before the camera footage stops.
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Charley Sung, an attorney for several Baltimore business owners, told Fox News about the businesses that were destroyed during Monday's riots in the city.
Sung said that it's too early to tell exactly how much money it will cost to get these businesses back up and running again.
He said the business owners he works with are really concerned with protecting their businesses.
'What's interesting though is in the aftermath of the looting last night, many of the business owners actually reported to me that folks from the neighborhood actually came out in the morning, expressed their concerns, helped clean up,' he said.
Violence erupted on Monday night in some of the city's poorest neighborhoods in response to the death 25-year-old local man Freddie Gray, who died of a severed spine while in police custody.
Last night, thousands of police officers in the Maryland city threw tear gas and fired rubber bullets while marching on about 100 defiant protesters who refused to go home and heed a city-wide curfew.
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Carnage: Police advance into a barrage of rocks, bricks and bottles while a car is set on fire during Monday night's riots in Baltimore
Back and forth: A protester throws a gas canister back at police during clashes at North Ave and Pennsylvania Ave in Baltimore last night
Defiant: Protestors defy curfew in front of police officers the night after citywide riots over the death of Freddie Gray
Protest: A woman with a protest sign runs for safety as police throw tear gas canisters while enforcing curfew last night
'We expect that there will be a lot of neighborhood support for their neighborhood small businesses.'
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan ordered 2,000 National Guardsmen and 1,000 law enforcement officers onto the streets to head off a repeat of Monday's chaotic scenes.
By midnight, the streets were mostly cleared when Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts held a press conference. He said that 10 people had been arrested that day - two for looting, one for disorderly conduct and seven for violating curfew.
Batts went on to say that the relatively low amount of arrests were evidence that the curfew worked.
'One of the biggest thing is citizens are safe, the city is stable and we hope to keep it that way,' Batts said.
The unrest - which has seen looters ransack stores, pharmacies and a shopping mall and clash with police in riot gear - was the most violent in the United States since Ferguson, Missouri was torn apart by gunshots and arson late last year in a similar reaction to another young black man's death.
Caught on camera: Looters fill their arms with items from the shelves of an unknown store during Monday's riots in Baltimore
The carnage wrought on the city has left at least 20 officers hurt, including one critically, as local gangs and high school students used social media to launch a coordinated 'Purge' - a slang term which comes from a film about rampaging lawlessness.
Members of three local gangs have since refuted reports that they made a temporary alliance to take out as many police officers as possible, saying they were actually working to calm the violence on the streets Monday night.
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