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In White Marsh, the taxi arrives at the Hampton Inn and Suites Hotel as Lori and Nicole exit the exit.

Lori: Thank you so much, sir.

Taxi Driver: Anytime...You ladies have safe night...

Lori nods as the taxi driver drives off. Lori and Nicole make their way into the hotel and approach the clerk's desk.

Arthur: Can I help you ladies?

Lori: We'd like a room, please....

Arthur: You guys come all the way here from a party?

Lori: We heard this was the only hotel open at the moment....away from that mess in the city.

Arthur: Well, you ladies are lucky.....I got one more room on the 3rd floor....

Lori: Hotel pretty packed tonight?

Arthur: Most of everyone staying here can't get home cause the roads are blocked off....those damned riots keeping everyone home.

Lori: Well, that's a shame.

Arthur: Yeah. Anyway, it's 145 dollars a night.

Lori: We just need a hotel for tonight...thank you...

Arthur: You guys are very lucky, too...it's a two bed suite.

Lori and Nicole take the elevator upstairs to the 3rd floor, where they search for their room.

Lori: Let's see 310....310....310, right here.

After finding room 310, Lori uses the key to enter the room.

Nicole: Wow....nice.....

Lori lays in the bed after getting relaxed. Meanwhile, in White Marsh, the White Marsh mall, that Dawson and her African-American partner, Leigh are guarding from looters, two Baltimore police officers one African-American, the other Caucasian-American,  stop and pull over a young African-American teenage male.

White Police Officer: Hey! Hey! 

Black Police Officer: Do you hear the man talking to you, boy?!

White Police Officer: The fuck you doing out so late, boy?

Teenager: Listen, dude...

Black Police Officer: Shut yo mouth, lil nigga. Answer the man when he asked you question, boy.

The White Police officer pushes the teenager against the fence, beginning to search the teens pockets and pulling out a Twix bar before Dawson notices and immediately takes action.

White Police Officer: The fuck you get this candy from?! You stealin, son?!

Teenager: You gonna call me out for a candy bar, nigga? Is you serious?

Black Police Officer: You better watch yo mouth.

Teenager: Or what you gonna show out for yo white master, nigga?

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