WBAL is reporting that they acquired new information about how the city of Baltimore handled the April riots and protests.

The news station filed a Public Information request to see what was going on between the mayor of Baltimore, school and police officials as well as the governor of Maryland. Most of what the station requested was denied. The emails they were granted access to showed that the city was not only dealing with all the things happening in the city, but also a cyber attack and email security threats. People were told not to open emails that had the subject "Baltimore Riots."

The newly released emails showed the communication right before the riots began. Rumors of an event much like the plot of the popular movie "The Purge" set to happen and businesses taking the threats seriously and closing, there were emails from the Department of Transportation asking what the city was going to do. The emails did not have a lot from Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, oddly.

You can read more about the strange emails here as more information comes to light about exactly what the city knew and what they did not see coming. One email shows the concern for the number of arrests, asking questions like "were they curfew violators? Were they from Baltimore?" These questions show where city officials' minds were at the time they were dealing with many attacks and protests on different mediums.