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<b>FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.</b> — A Fayetteville man was arrested Friday by special agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and charged for his role in the fire last Saturday night at the city's historic Market House.

Charles Anthony Pittman, 32, was caught on camera "showing a red gasoline container to the crowd below before he poured its contents throughout the floor of the second story," according to the report on his arrest from Robert J. Higdon, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina.

"Pittman ran out of the Market House as the floor caught on fire with other individuals, including an employee, still inside. As a result of the fire, the Market House sustained charring and mass wood loss to the second story floor," Pittman said in announcing the arrest.

Protesters have broken into a historic building in Fayetteville and set a fire. The Market House is a historic, iconic building in downtown. However, in the 1800s, the building has a history of being a market where enslaved people were sold.

WERE DEFENDING THE POLICE. OTHERS WERE THROWING THINGS INSIDE THAT SALLY PORT. THIS WAS FROM A LITTLE WHILE AGO, AND YOU CAN SEE THAT STAND THAT MARK WAS SHOWING YOU IS STILL GOING ON THIS HOUR, BUT SOME OF THE PROTESTERS THERE TRYING TO MAKE A SHIELD TO ACTUALLY PROTECT THE POLICE OFFICERS. JULIAN? >>> LET'S GO RIGHT BACK TO FAYETTEVILLE. THINGS ARE HEATING THERE. BRYAN MIMS IS RIGHT THERE. THAT IS MARKET STREET BEHIND HIM. BRIAN, WHAT ARE YOU SEEING AND WHAT IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW? >> Reporter: JULIAN, I APOLOGIZE FOR THE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES. I HAD TROUBLE ESTABLISHING COMMUNICATIONS WITH YOU. LET ME GET THIS OUT OF THE WAY. WE -- I'M KIND OF EXASPERATED, I MUST TELL YOU. THIS IS THE MARKET HOUSE. IT'S AN ICONIC BUILDING IN DOWNTOWN FAYETTEVILLE. WE SAW SOME PEOPLE GO INSIDE. THEY BROKE IN BECAUSE THE DOORS ARE TYPICALLY LOCKED. THERE WAS SOMEBODY WITH A CONTAINER OF GASOLINE, A BIG, RED PLASTIC CONTAINER OF GASOLINE AND STARTED POURING IT INSIDE, AND WE SAW FLAMES INSIDE THE MARKET HOUSE, AND WE ALSO SAW PEOPLE IN THERE WITH BATS. SOMEBODY TOOK A BAT TO THE WINDOWS IN THE MARKET HOUSE IS SHATTERED THE THREE WINDOWS YOU SEE FACING GREENSTREET. WE ARE ON STANDING. CROWDS, SEVERAL HUNDRED HAS GATHERED AROUND THE MARKET HOUSE. THEY HAVE BEEN HERE SINCE ABOUT 5:00 FOR A GOOD HOUR OR SO. THEY WERE GATHERED ON THE TRAFFIC CIRCLE WITH MUSIC BLARING. THEY HAD LOTS OF RAP MUSIC AND THERE WAS EVEN SOME DANCING IN THE STREETS, AND THEN AT ONE POINT, THEY MOVED OVER TO THE MARKET HOUSE, THE CANOPY, AND THEY SET FIRE TO AN AMERICAN FLAG. HAD AN AMERICAN FLAG. PEOPLE WERE CHANTING BURN IT, BURN IT. THEY BURNED AN AMERICAN FLAG, AND THEN SOMEBODY WENT UPSTAIRS, INSIDE, LIT THE GASOLINE, AND YOU CAN SEE THE SMOKE. YOU CAN SEE THE SMOKE BILLOWING OUT OF THE SECOND STORY OF THE MARKET HOUSE, WHERE THERE IS A MUSEUM. I THINK THERE IS A SMALL MUSEUM INSIDE THAT MARKET HOUSE. NOW, YOU NEED SOME HISTORICAL CONTEXT FOR THIS BUILDING. THIS HAS BEEN, OVER THE YEARS, A LIGHTNING ROD FOR THE MINORITY COMMUNITY HERE BECAUSE THE MARKET HOUSE HAS A HISTORY OF SELLING -- AS OF PLACE WHERE SOME SLAVES WERE SO. WAS NOT PRIMARILY USED FOR THAT. IT WAS NOT A TRUE SLAVE TRADING MARKET, BUT THERE WAS SOME ESTATE SALES DURING THE PRE- CIVIL WAR YEARS WHERE SOME SLAVES WERE SOLD, BUT IT'S BEEN USED TO SELL PRODUCE, FARM PRODUCTS OVER THE YEARS, AND IT'S BECOME A SYMBOL. IT'S THE OLDEST, THE OLDEST BUILDING IN FAYETTEVILLE, BUILT IN 1832, BUT AMONG AFRICAN- AMERICANS, SOME AFRICAN- AMERICANS VIEW IT AS A SYMBOL OF DIVISIVENESS, AND SO THAT BROUGHT US TO THIS POINT TONIGHT, WHERE SOME PEOPLE TO GASOLINE AND TRY TO BURN IT DOWN , AND YOU CAN SEE THE SMOKE BILLOWING OUT RIGHT NOW, AND THEY TOOK SOMEBODY. SOMEBODY TOOK A BACK TO THE WINDOWS AND SHATTERED THE GLASS. THE CROWD IS STILL GATHERING. I HOPE IT DOES NOT ESCALATE BEYOND WHAT WE SEE. THAT IS MY PRAYER, THAT IT DOES NOT HAPPEN,  BUT THERE IS STILL A LARGE CROWD, DEBRA AND JULIAN , AROUND THE MARKET HOUSE. AS A MATTER OF FACT, BEFORE WE WENT ON, TRY TO GO ON LIVE A FEW MINUTES AGO, THERE WAS AN INDIVIDUAL BLOCKING OUR SHOT. DID NOT WANT US TO GET VIDEO. AND SO HE WAS BLOCKING OUR WAY. WE JUST HAD TO MOVE BACK. IT IS DEFINITELY BECOME A TENSE SITUATION HERE. I AM NOT GOING TO SUGARCOAT IT. BACK TO YOU. >> TOTALLY UNDERSTAND THAT. SPEAKING OF IT BEING A TENSE SITUATION, ACROSS THE COUNTRY WE HAVE SEEN OFFICERS TAKE THE APPROACH OF BEING IN THE BACKGROUND, AND SOME OF THE VIDEO WE HAVE SEEN SO FAR, BRIAN, I HAD NOT SEEN ANY OFFICERS. DO YOU SEE ANY MORE OFFICERS AROUND THE MARKET HOUSE? I KNOW THE POLICE STATION IS LIKE RIGHT NEXT DOOR? >> Reporter: AND I AM GLAD YOU POINTED THAT OUT TO THAT AND NO IMPORTANT AMOUNT BUT WE HAVE NOT SEEN ANY POLICE. WELL, I DO SEE AN SUV THAT MIGHT BE A LAW OFFICER. LOOKS LIKE A FIRE OFFICIAL. YEAH, THE FIRE MARSHAL, THE FIRE MARSHAL IS HERE, BUT I HAVE NOT SEEN ANY FAYETTEVILLE POLICE. YEAH, THERE IS TAHOE, THE WHITE TAHOE, THE FIRE MARSHAL., BUT AS FAR AS POLICE, AND NOW I SEE CROWDS RUNNING BACK UNDERNEATH THE MARKET HOUSE, AND WE DID HEAR SOME, SOME POPPING, LOUD POPPING NOISES. IT SOUNDED LIKE GUNSHOTS. I DON'T THINK THAT'S WHAT IT WAS. I THINK IT MIGHT'VE BEEN SOMEBODY'S MUFFLER COMING THROUGH HERE, BUT IT SENT PEOPLE STARING. A BIG WAVE OF PEOPLE STARTED RUNNING DOWN GREENSTREET WHERE I AM STANDING, AND WE DID NOT KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON. CERTAINLY WAS A FEW FRIGHTENING MOMENTS THERE, BUT NOW THE CROWD -- AND WE ARE KEEPING OUR DISTANCE. WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET CLOSER THAN WE ARE. WE ARE NOT GOING TO DO IT. YOU CAN SEE THE CROWD MOVING, AND IT LOOKS LIKE THEY ARE GOING TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MARKETPLACE. THE SMOKE IS COMING OUT OF THE SECOND FLOOR. OH, I'M TELLING YOU, IT'S, IT'S SURREAL. IT REALLY IS. MY PARTNER WHO'S WORKING WITH ME, HE'S A FAYETTEVILLE NATIVE . OF SEVERAL YEARS HERE MYSELF, COVERING IT. I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS, AND BEING A HISTORY BUFF, I MEAN THAT JUST TROUBLES ME. TO SEE THIS HISTORY BURNING LIKE THIS. THIS WAS BUILT OVER THE FORMER NORTH CAROLINA CAPITAL. FAYETTEVILLE COULD'VE BEEN THE CAPITAL OF NORTH CAROLINA, AND THIS MARKET HOUSE WAS BUILT AT THE FORMER SITE OF THE STATE CAPITAL, THE COLONIAL CAPITAL OF NORTH CAROLINA, AND THIS IS WHERE, THIS IS WHERE THE LEGISLATURE RATIFY THE U.S. CONSTITUTION. THERE IS A LOT OF HISTORY RIGHT HERE, AND TO SEE IT -- JUST TO SEE THIS RECOGNIZABLE, ICONIC STRUCTURE LIKE THIS, IT IS DISTRESSING. I AM NOT -- IT IS DISTRESSING, JULIAN. >> A LOT OF HISTORY THERE, BUT ALSO A LOT OF SLAVE HISTORY AS WELL, AS YOU SHARED WITH US A LITTLE BIT EARLIER. SLAVES USED TO BE SOLD IN THAT BUILDING THERE IN THE MARKET HOUSE. LET'S TALK ABOUT THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. ARE YOU HEARING ANY FIRE ENGINES BECAUSE WE THOUGHT WE MAYBE WERE, BUT IT SOUND LIKE IT WAS MUSIC. ARE YOU SEEING A FIREFIGHTER PRESENT AT ALL THERE? >> Reporter: YEAH, WELL NO. WE HEAR -- YEAH. THERE IS A FIRE ALARM IN THE MARKET HOUSE, SO WE DO HEAR THAT, AND WE SAW THE FIRE MARSHAL GO BY, BUT WE HAVE NOT SEEN ANY FIRE CREWS. NO FIRE TRUCKS, RED LIGHT, BUT THE FIRE ALARM IS GOING OFF, AND I STILL -- I DON'T SEE ANY POLICE OFFICERS IN THE AREA. IT'S, IT REALLY IS AS IF THE GROUT HAS HAD THE RUN OF THE PLACE, THE RUN OF THE MARKET HOUSE, AND, AND THEY ARE STILL AROUND. I DON'T SEE MUCH DISSIPATION OF THE CROWD. IT IS A LITTLE SOONER THAN IT WAS MAYBE AN HOUR AGO, BUT IT IS STILL VERY MUCH AN EVOLVING SITUATION. I JUST HOPE IT DOES NOT GET ANY WORSE THAN THIS, JULIAN. >> GOT YOU. I WANT TO ASK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE CROWD TODAY. WE HAD THE PROTESTS IN FAYETTEVILLE. THE FIRST ONE WAS VERY PEACEFUL, A LARGE CROWD. HOW WOULD YOU COMPARE THE CROWD SIZES FROM THE ONE THAT WAS PEACEFUL, EARLIER TODAY, TO THE ONE WE'RE SEEING NOW? IS THIS ONE MUCH SMALLER WHAT YOU SAY, OR NO? >> I WOULD SAY, I WOULD SAY IT'S ROUGHLY THE SAME SIZE IS WHAT WE SAW IN SCHUYLKILL ROAD. WOULDN'T YOU SAY, MICHAEL? MICHAEL IS THE MAN BEHIND THE CAMERA, MY LONGTIME PARTNER WHEN I WORKED HERE IN FAYETTEVILLE, MICHAEL JOYNER. HE FIGURES THIS IS ABOUT THE SAME SIZE. 3, 4, 500 PEOPLE, SEVERAL HUNDRED. I AM KINDA ROUGH AT ESTIMATING CROWD SITE, BUT I WILL GO WITH SEVERAL HUNDRED PEOPLE, AND I WOULD SAY IT IS ABOUT THE SAME SIZE FROM  SCHUYLKILL ROAD HERE. I HAVE SEEN A LOT OF THE SAME FACES I SAW IN SCHUYLKILL ROAD HERE AT THE MARKET HOUSE, AND JUST TO RECAP, THE CHAIN OF EVENTS, CHAIN OF EVENTS HERE IN FAYETTEVILLE, IT ALL STARTED A LITTLE BEFORE 3:00 AT THE WALMART. THEY GATHERED AT THE WALMART AT SCHUYLKILL ROAD. BAKER RUSHED TO THE SKY CREEK MALL. SCHUYLKILL ROAD IS THE BUSIEST READ IN FAYETTEVILLE. MOST TRAVELED ROAD IN FAYETTEVILLE. SIX, SEVEN LANES WIDE, SO THEY BLOCKED SCHUYLKILL ROAD, AND THEY WERE LAYING DOWN IN THE ROPE THAT THEY WOULD LIE DOWN, THEY KNELT, SAT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD, BLOCKED TRAFFIC, AND POLICE DO NOT BLOCK TRAFFIC FOR THEM. THEY WENT INTO THE ROAD, STOPPED THE TRAFFIC, AND LAY IN THE ROAD. THEN THEY CAME HERE TO THE MARKET HOUSE AT 5:00. J COLE, FAYETTEVILLE NATIVE WRAPPER, HE WAS HERE, AND THEY MARCHED DOWN THE STREET, PAST FAYETTEVILLE POLICE A CHORUS, ROBINSON STREET, THEN TURNED AROUND, THEN THEY ALL GATHERED AROUND THE MARKET HOUSE. THERE IS A TRAFFIC CIRCLE AROUND THE MARKET HOUSE, AND THAT IS WHERE THEY HAD BEEN SINCE ABOUT 5:30 THIS AFTERNOON, AND THEN WE SAW PEOPLE GO INSIDE. THE DOORS ARE PRESUMABLY LOTS. IT'S USUALLY A SECURED BUILDING, BUT THEY GOT IN SOMEHOW, AND THEN WE SAW THE FLAGBURNING, WE SAW THE GASOLINE CONTAINER GO OFF, AND HERE WE ARE NOW. THE SMOKE BILLOWING OUT OF THE

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