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<b>RALEIGH, N.C.</b> — On Friday and Saturday nights, Raleigh Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin will impose a 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew for the entire city ahead of a protest planned for downtown Raleigh after the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin.

"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 statement. "We want to create a safe space for all who want to come together while maintaining a sense of civility and accountability. Raleigh is our home, and downtown is the heart and the heartbeat of our community."

Raleigh Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin speaks with reporters in front of the Raleigh Municipal Building about the citywide 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew that will be in place Friday and Saturday nights ahead of a protest scheduled in downtown Raleigh.

try and talk it out. My question for you. Their biggest. My biggest concern is that we have a repeat of what happened, and we don't want to see that happen again. So this is a precautionary move. A number of business owners in or else have asked for perfume after careful consideration. It's a difficult decision, but way felt that this was the smartest way to go. No, first we're treating This is a peaceful protest, and I think what you've seen over the past couple months is we have had many peaceful protests with police. Officers have been in their blues. They have had conversations with protesters, they have focused on de escalation. And, um, you know, that's how they've been operating. Unless you see otherwise. I believe that's way ourselves on Friday night by yourself. Last right? Nothing. Well, our police department started working on their plane yesterday when we learned of the protest. You know, we'll be doing things a little differently because we have learned. I think it's obvious that we were overwhelmed the night of the protest way. Have police now who are planning to close roads. We feel that we want to prevent collisions between cars and protesters Way are going to provide ways for emergency vehicles and fire response teams to be on hand just in case there are fires. God forbid again. What? We want to be able to get those things quickly. We'll also have fully staffed police force there, you know, the last time way have protests in our city every week. Where the capital city we have for years our police department has dealt with those protests way have never seen anything like that. We have prepared. Yes, That's why we're determined to be prepared this time. Some people argue that vacation again. I'm not sure I follow the question. This proportion Um the groups that are organizing this protest are happen. We don't but we are going to wear very aware of the equity issues. So again, I think our police department has done a great job enforcing corporations by not escalating. And that is that's the way to go. Our intention again is to treat This is a peaceful protest. So that's the intention. That's how we're approaching this. And we don't have any indication at this time anything that there will be anything otherwise Well, you know, our business community. You know, a lot of these people put their heart and souls three years into into building in downtown. I personally have worked on downtown for 15 years. Trying to bring business here or not are our downtown was a ghost town and the past year, it really past five years and really come to life. So what happened is just heart breaking in so many ways. So, you know, our intention is to protect our downtown. But we also verbally believe that those coming down to protest should have their voices. We firmly believe in the mission of Social Desk Justice way also believe that way need to take action to address these issues so way. What we want is to find solutions that we can work together and most importantly, way want peace in our community. We want to be able to do in a way where everyone is hurt. But everyone is also protected. And that includes the heart of our city. Downtown town is our heartbeat. That's our soul. And we want that protected. So we're asking for respect. Well, up until today, I was unaware that the district attorney had made a determination. So that did not fall into the consideration when we talked about talked yesterday about opposing district attorney makes independent decisions based on her investigation, and that was the determination she made. You know what, So I wanted to let you were working on something with shop Local Raleigh. Some of our business alliances in the faith community way. We're looking at hosting a vigil at four o'clock on Saturday, and we will have more details on that is plans under way. But also at nine on Saturday night, we're asking all members of our community our city, Raleigh to go to their front porch in their front yard and light a candle. Four. Take a flashlight like everybody likes to do these days. Take out your phone, put out the light. We want to shine a light on peace and justice. So that is what we'll be doing nine on Saturday and we will get more information out. So thank you, everybody. We're working on the details. Details will follow. Thank you. So So I have spoken to a lot of business owners who asked for this. They want to protect their places of business. They want to protect their employees and way feel that this is provides a good balance to ensuring peace but also protection. Thank you very much. Thank you, everyone. Yeah.

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Several downtown businesses were already preparing for the protests Friday morning by boarding up their doors just in case protests become violent.

<a href="https://www.wral.com/story/nc-protests-arrests-at-north-hills-triangle-town-center-as-riots-continue-into-early-morning-hours/19122732/">Protests in the wake of George Floyd's death in police custody in Minnesota in May turned into riots</a>, with people vandalizing and looting businesses downtown and setting several fires. Law enforcement responded by deploying tear gas and firing rubber bullets into crowds to disperse people.

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After <a href="https://www.wral.com/story/fbi-to-investigate-arrest-of-black-man-who-died-after-being-pinned-by-officer/19114480/">the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis</a>, people across the country responded by taking to the streets to protest the latest in a sad series of deaths of African-American males at the hands of law enforcement officers.

Where many marched and chanted for change, some protests turned to riots, with <a href="https://www.wral.com/video/ymca-in-downtown-raleigh-heavily-damaged-inside-outside/19123860/">windows smashed</a> and <a href="https://www.wral.com/video/burning-history-rioters-set-fires-at-105-year-old-raleigh-business/19125154/">stores looted</a>.

Protests, fires and outrage over the death of George Floyd have broken out in more than a dozen cities across the country, with some protesters smashing windows, setting cars ablaze and clashing with police officers.

Protests began peacefully on Saturday afternoon, with protests scheduled in cities across North Carolina. Durham, Raleigh and Fayetteville had marches with hundreds of protesters chanting, "No justice, no peace."

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More than <strong><a href="https://www.wral.com/story/list-dozens-arrested-in-raleigh-over-three-nights-of-protests/19125213/">30 people were arrested</a></strong> across three days for actions in various parts of Raleigh. The vast majority of them were Raleigh residents, but four listed hometowns outside the state.

Raleigh was rocked for two nights by violence and vandalism that stretched from <a href="https://www.wral.com/video/windows-broken-at-state-archives-building-in-raleigh/19123555/">state buildings downtown</a> to <a href="https://www.wral.com/video/city-plaza-businesses-vandalized/19123566/">City Plaza</a> and <a href="https://www.wral.com/video/windows-smashed-at-target-rei-in-north-hills/19123838/">North Hills</a>. In Fayetteville, looters streamed into a Walmart on Skibo Road and a group of people <a href="https://www.wral.com/video/protesters-fan-flames-at-historic-market-house-building-in-fayetteville-nc/19122059/">set fire to the historic Market House</a>.

Durham protested, too, but <a href="https://www.wral.com/video/protests-in-durham-on-saturday-night-remain-peaceful/19122373/">ended each night without the criminal behavior seen elsewhere</a>, a credit, Mayor Steve Schewel said, to a <a href="https://www.wral.com/video/durham-mayor-attitude-the-key-to-peaceful-protests/19125109/">shared attitude of community between law enforcement and protest leaders</a>.

<em><strong>WRAL's coverage of the outrage, protests and riots continues below, with the most recent stories and video first.</strong></em>

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Baldwin said at that time that she <a href="https://www.wral.com/story/raleigh-curfew-extended-to-sunday-night-mayor-regrets-not-having-it-in-place-sooner/19126439/">regretted not enacting a curfew until after two nights of rioting</a> had already occurred.

"Issuing a curfew isn’t an easy decision," she said Thursday. "Together, we can call for justice and hear the voices of our community and maintain a safe environment for everyone involved."

"Essential employees," including law enforcement, first responders, health care workers, utility workers and package delivery services, are exempted from the curfew.

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