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On June2,2020, BLMDC filed for an Injunction against Mayor Muriel Bowser & Police Chief Peter Newsham for instituting a curfew effective on June 1, 2020 from 7pm to 6am.
On June3,2020, after receiving our lawsuit, the Mayor announced she was continuing the curfew starting at 11pm instead of 7pm.
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On June4,2020, the Mayor announced she will not continue to impose a curfew for the District of Columbia.
Our success here blocked an attempt to criminalize dissent and possibly reduced some harm to those protesting police brutality in DC.
The curfew created on June 1, 2020 led the Metropolitan Police Department, the Secret Service, the National Guard, and various other Federal Law Enforcement Agencies to descend upon the District and commit violent acts against protestors that could be considered felonies and war crimes if carried out in any other context. Throughout the evening, protestors were teargassed, shot with rubber bullets, brutally assaulted, kettled, and forced into the homes of strangers until the curfew expired.
