The city of Cleveland announced this morning in a text alert that the curfew for downtown and the Market District has been extended until Wednesday morning and that nightly curfews will follow through Friday.
The emergency civil protection order and curfew, which was confusingly communicated and then modified by City Hall and had exceptions for downtown workers then didn’t, excluded credential reporters then didn’t, and generally includes crackdowns on people trying to let their dogs pee, according to anecdotal evidence, had been set to expire this evening at 8 p.m.
Downtown and the Market District will open from 6 a.m. until 8 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and will be under a nightly curfew from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. those same days.
The only exemptions, per the city: “Credentialed media, residents of the restricted areas, essential medical personnel and essential City personnel.”
Highway ramp exits and entrances will be restricted during the curfew hours as well.
Cleveland has seen only one day of George Floyd protests but nevertheless chosen to completely lock down the central business district. Many other cities have seen multiple days of protests and one-week nightly curfews have been instituted across the country from Arizona to Atlantic City.
This article appears in May 27 – Jun 2, 2020.
Time, manner, and place restrictions are permitted for First Amendment protests.
The City of Cleveland should just restrict any future planned protests to Cleveland’s Edgewater Park to limit damage by protesters.
Plainclothes law enforcement officials should also be mixed in with protesters so they can make quick arrests for protesters committing crimes, and the protest areas should have zoom-in surveillance cameras that can record video of protesters.
Tuesday, May 26 — White America is almost universally in solidarity with and support of the black community in denouncing the murder of George Floyd.
Tuesday, June 2 — As a result of the rioting, looting, arson, and killing perpetrated by black thugs, white America is almost universally disgusted with the black community.
Way to turn that around, thugs.
Of course, self-defeating behavior has long been a hallmark of a significant proportion of the underclass.
Somebody else here said this earlier, and I’m repeating it because it’s right on the money.
Every brick that goes through a window means another thousand votes for that despicable imbecile Trump.
You thug morons are so invested in hurting yourselves, you might has well just throw bricks through your own windows.
It looks like we have to ‘Make America Great Again’!
Get fucked, urbanite scum!
Still waiting on the whereabouts of scene writers Vince Grzegorek and Sam Allard, who were reported as joining in the destruction of property after the riot began at 3pm.
If the end goal is peace, we all need to change.
Anonymous asshole…pix or it didn’t happen. Put up or shut up.
Sam and vince aren’t going to bury anybody. They both took the BBC out of their mouth long enough to throw a few bricks through windows during the riot, but they don’t have the capacity for physical violence.