Missionaries from Impact Church in Lowell are trapped in a hotel in Haiti after protests against high gas prices turned to riots. The group was planning to return home on Sunday when the Haitian president announced he was going to raise gas prices so high that most Haitians wouldn’t be able to afford the gas.
The formerly peaceful protests over Freddie Gray’s death in police custody turned violent after his funeral on Monday. Now celebrities are coming out to ask the young kids causing the violent riots to stop.