Curfew announced for DTLA. Photo by Brenda Verano
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced that the area of Downtown Los Angeles will be under an emergency curfew starting tonight.
The mandatory curfew will be in effect from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. local time and is likely to remain in place for a few days, she said tonight. Jim McDonnell, Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, said anyone in the area “without reason” will be arrested.
The curfew will be in effect for a limited area of about one square mile in Downtown L.A.
“[A] curfew has been in consideration for several days,” she said in a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, but said the violent acts and vandalism of last night were the "tipping point" in the city’s decision to institute and announce the curfew.
Affected area. Photo courtesy of Brenda Verano
In response to a question from a reporter, she says the widespread violence and vandalism of last night was the "tipping point" in her decision to institute the curfew, which had been under consideration for several days.
McDonnell said he hopes the curfew will “restore peace” in the city, which has been subjected to multiple ICE raids and citations over the last few days.
“This curfew is not about silencing protest,” Ysabel Jurado, the council member overseeing the DTLA area, said in the press conference.
The curfew does not apply to people who live in the affected area, workers, homeless people or members of the media.
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