Bass reduces hours of curfew
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After four nights of rioting and destruction, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass instituted a downtown curfew on Tuesday, leading to relative peace over the past three nights. With the curfew a demonstrated success,
She said in a news conference that she had declared a local emergency and that the curfew will run from 8 p.m. Tuesday until 6 a.m. Wednesday.
With the downtown facing an 8 p.m. curfew, the Los Angeles police began using tear gas and crowd-control munitions to break up protests after issuing a dispersal order.