Despite the deployment of 2,000 National Guards to Baltimore, protests were still held on Tuesday night as 200 people defied the curfew and even fought back the guardsmen and police.

The police officers threw smoke canisters and fired pepper spray balls at about 200 protesters who lobbed bottles at the cops and threw back the canisters at the police armed with riot shields. However, the officers did not need to arrest the protestors who immediately left within minutes, reports Nola.com.

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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan warned Baltimore residents that the combined force of Guardsmen and law enforcers would not tolerate violence or looting. The Tuesday night protest was actually the exception since the city was relatively quiet the whole day after authorities cancelled classes in public schools as well as the Baltimore Orioles game at Camden Yard.

The protesters who were still on streets in Baltimore's Penn North section after the 10 p.m. curfew set in were forcibly dispersed. However, in South Baltimore, arrests were made after people began to attack the cops with rocks and bricks.

While the death of 25-year-old black man Freddie Gray showed the ugly side of Baltimore residents, the aftermath of the looting and burning of vehicles also showed the better side of people from the same city who showed up and volunteered to clean the debris left by protesters and looters on Monday.

One Baltimore mom, Toya Braham, grabbed the attention of the nation when her video smacking her 16-year-old son Michael became viral on the internet. Michael, who was one of the looters, wore a mask and was no match to his mother's pummels.

He admitted that when he saw his mother, Michael knew he was in trouble and he attempted to run from Toya who said she was disciplining her son, one of her six kids, because she does not want him to end like Gray who died with a spine injury after a week in police custody.

"I just lost it. I was shocked, I was angry, because you never want to see your child out there doing that," CBS quotes Graham who got praises from Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts for her action.

Batt said he wishes that more Baltimore parents would take charge over their kids the way Graham did.

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