Baltimore Lifts Citywide Curfew Put in Place After Rioting
The Baltimore authorities announced on Sunday that they had lifted the citywide curfew that the police said helped to curb violent protests here, but that had also come under mounting criticism as days passed without new bouts of widespread rioting and looting.
“Effective immediately, I have rescinded my order instituting a citywide curfew,” Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said in a statement on Sunday morning. “My goal has always been to not have the curfew in place a single day longer than was necessary.”
The curfew, which ran from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., had been, with few exceptions, enforced since Tuesday night. Many businesses shut down hours before the curfew began each night to allow employees to return to their homes, and workers throughout the city complained of lost wages.
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