Curfews Fail to Deter Overnight Violence Following Peaceful Protests

As darkness fell and curfews hit across the eastern U.S. Tuesday evening, cities were reporting a day mostly of calm, though it was hard to know if the mood would hold or give way to violence as in recent nights. By Tuesday afternoon, thousands of peaceful demonstrators had gathered in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, Milwaukee and the Washington, D.C., region, protesting the killing of George Floyd in police custody, which was captured in a video that circulated widely last week….

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