I do not regard curfews as a legitimate use of state authority

[bluestateguy]

I would never comply with a curfew.

If I have to go to work, or take a sick relative (or my pregnant wife) to the hospital, or I have no food and have to go to the grocery store, then I will ignore a so-called totalitarian, big government, Soviet-style curfew.

[jwirr]

1. Actually the Mayor gave all but grocery shopping as exceptions. My concern is that curfews and

no school do not make any sense.

[bluestateguy]

5. Oh how kind of her

If I have a permission slip from my Mommy can I go to the gas station to buy snacks for recess.

[jwirr]

7. No you will probably get shot by some Zimmerman type for walking while black. I am not saying

that I agree with a curfew. However they were used in the 60s & 70s to some advantage. I just don't think they will work today. What will work is to get the facts about Freddie Gray's murder and arrest those cops.

[brooklynite]

2. You tell 'em.....over at Free Republic!

[elleng]

4. Thanks.

[elleng]

3. The 'totalitarian, big government, Soviet-style' Mayor of Baltimore said people may go to work,

under the curfew.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. The curfew can be violated

for medical emergencies as well. Also curfews are much older than the USSR.

[longship]

8. In Detroit in 1967, we gladly obeyed the curfew.

And if one had to get to a hospital, one would likely have had a Nat'l Guard escort.

Also exempted were people who worked on off shifts, etc. Back then there were no grocery stores open past the evening, so I cannot speak for that.

We saw the curfew as a chance to restore stability to a volatile situation, not totalitarianism. And when I say "we" I mean my family and all of our neighbors, both black and white.

BTW, we all waved at the Nat'l Guard Jeeps when they drove by our houses. They had mounted machine guns. BTW.

In summer 1967 Detroit, if you violated curfew, you would have been justifiably arrested. Except that few did because they all wanted an end to the madness. But some fucking jerks are inevitably going to throw a monkey wrench into the works maybe because of some delusions of totalitarianism while a good part of the city is in flames.

One would hope that they are most uncomfortable in that well earned jail cell.

The curfew was only until the fire department could extinguish the fires -- there were fucking snipers firing on them! And until calm returned to a city which was being torn apart.

BTW, it all started with a police raid on a blind pig, a place that served liquor after hours. But the riots were not just about that. All my neighbors, both black and white, and my family, and Mayor Cavanaugh, and much of the city understood that.