It was a five-minute interview that garnered nearly 2 million views on YouTube: Baltimore gang members who reached a truce amid unrest that followed Freddie Gray's police in-custody death 10 years ago. Hours after Gray's funeral, while rioting and looting erupted in west Baltimore, a group of gang members asked 11 News to report their real role in the unrest: "This is the Bloods right here. We got the Phirus over here and Bloods over here. We stand as one, we are one right now. It's Black men united." Rival gangs came together to set the record straight to let Baltimore know that, despite a police alert sent out earlier in the day, gangs did not work together to target officers. The FBI later discredited the threat. They wanted Baltimore to know they were not rioting, looting or targeting police: "We did not come together against the cops. We're not about to let y'all paint this picture of us." Ten years later, I reconnected with Orlando and Gary. I asked whether Orlando ever looks back at the video.
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