Now that the death of Freddie Gray has been ruled a homicide, the citizens of Baltimore are hoping riots will subside and things will return back to normal. As part of the attempt to restore the city to peace, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has decided to lift the 10 p.m. Baltimore curfew that she enacted during the height of the protests.
“My goal has always been to not have the curfew in place a single day longer than was necessary,” said the mayor. “I believe we have reached that point today.”
Rawlings-Blake originally enacted the curfew as an attempt to quell the hostile interactions citizens were having with law enforcement while protesting the death of a 25-year-old African-American man named Freddie Gray who died while in custody. Outbreaks of violence and looting had become rampant in the city, but the 10 p.m. curfew did little to keep the angry protesters in their homes. Many people have been arrested for violating the Baltimore curfew, as many as 50 people on Saturday night alone.
“My number one priority in instituting a curfew was to ensure the public peace, safety, health and welfare of Baltimore citizens,” Rawlings-Blake said. “It was not an easy decision, but one I felt was necessary to help our city restore calm.”
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