Raleigh’s Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin has issued a CITYWIDE curfew from Raleigh on Friday & Saturday nights running from 10pm-5am. ABC 11 reports the curfew was issued in response to planned social justice demonstration.

“By setting a curfew, it is my hope that we can allow those assembled the opportunity to exercise their right to free speech in a peaceful way, without violence or destruction from opportunists who don’t share the goals of peaceful protesters,” Baldwin said in a news release.

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