( CNN ) The lawyer for a Baltimore community activist whose arrest was broadcast live on CNN said Thursday morning that his client had been released from jail . As viewers watched , Joseph Kent held his hands up and walked in front of a phalanx of police Tuesday night after a citywide curfew had started . Seconds later , several officers in riot gear rushed out of their line and arrested him , just as a Humvee passed between the camera and the police , making social media churn with questions about what happened to Kent . Attorney Stephen Patrick Beatty confirmed he is representing Kent . He was still trying to get in touch with his client after Kent was released . `` He wanted me to tell people most that he does n't want violence in his name , '' Beatty told CNN 's Don Lemon on Wednesday night . The incident unfolded live on CNN about 40 minutes after the 10 p.m. curfew went into effect and as authorities tried to prevent the kind of rioting -- part of protests over the death of Freddie Gray -- that plagued the city Monday . Kent was being held on a charge of curfew violation , according to the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services . People on Twitter continued to circulate the name of Kent , a young activist , making # JosephKent and # WhereIsJosephKent hot topics . Investigators made 10 arrests in Baltimore on Tuesday night , city Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said . Seven were for curfew violations , he said . Beatty said he met with Kent on Wednesday afternoon . `` He said he 's physically OK , not injured . He 's safe in there , '' Beatty said . But even though more than 100 people who had been held at the city 's booking center were released earlier in the day , Kent was not one of them . Beatty initially checked on Kent 's status , despite not officially representing him . He said Kent was just trying to help with getting people to go home when he was arrested . `` He went out there to try to settle things down because he had seen what happened in this city previously , '' Beatty said . `` And the last thing he wanted was any more violence , and he was trying to stop it . '' Kent once was employed as an intern , through an outside company , at Morgan State University 's Entrepreneurial Development and Assistance Center , the school said Wednesday . But Kent is not a student there and , as far as the school can tell , never has been , MSU spokesman Clint Coleman said . A woman who answered the phone at the EDAC said that no one there was available to talk about Kent and that she 'd have no further comment . In November , the Baltimore City Paper ran a story about Kent , then 21 , and his participation in Baltimore protests over a grand jury 's decision not to indict a police officer in the August shooting of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson , Missouri . He helped lead protesters who walked through Morgan State 's campus and eventually to City Hall on November 25 , the newspaper reported . `` Everyone knows me at Morgan already , organizing and making sure everything ( is ) running the correct way and peaceful and everything like that , '' he said , according to the City Paper 's article . `` So , everybody already knows I 'm going to do things the right way , so when everybody else and community people and civilians and people who joined and saw that the Morgan students were looking up to it , before you knew it , the whole city was on my back and I was just carrying the whole city . '' Complete coverage on the Baltimore protests . CNN 's Justin Lear , Evan Perez , Elan Bird and AnneClaire Stapleton contributed to this report .
Joseph Kent 's attorney says his client was released from jail . Police in Baltimore detained Kent on live TV after start of curfew . That triggered a wave of interest on social media .