D.C. Mayor Bowser orders citywide curfew overnight

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has ordered a citywide curfew overnight Sunday.

According to her tweet, the curfew for the District of Columbia will start at 11 p.m. Sunday, May 31, and will last until Monday, June 1 at 6 a.m.

The mayor has also activated the D.C. National Guard to "support the Metropolitan Police Department."

The overnight curfew comes the same day that Virginia Governor Ralph Northam declared a state of emergency due to "escalated violence" throughout the Commonwealth.

There have been several protests throughout the D.C. region Sunday, including a Howard University protest, as demonstrators traveled to the White House calling for justice for George Floyd.

ACLU-DC released a statement addressing the mayor's curfew and deployment of the National Guard, calling it "tone deaf" and the "wrong approach."

Monica Hopkins, Executive Director, ACLU of the District of Columbia wrote the following in a released statement:

We are deeply alarmed and troubled that Mayor Bowser has imposed an 11PM curfew and called the D.C. National Guard to support the Metropolitan Police Department for the protests that have happened this weekend.

“The nation's capital is one of the most important places for protest to take place right now. Demonstrators are protesting police brutality, white supremacy, and state violence that claims Black lives. To impose a curfew is tone deaf and exactly the wrong approach.

Click here for the rest of the ACLU-DC's statement.

Watch: ABC7 Coverage of the protests across the D.M.V.:

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