Memphis curfew extended
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland has continued the citywide curfew into Friday evening, starting at 10 p.m. and ending Saturday morning at 5 a.m.
The curfew, renewed on a daily basis by executive order, has been in effect since Monday. The city state of civil emergency by Strickland related to the curfew is scheduled to be in effect through Monday, June 8.
Strickland signed both orders following a violent end to a protest Sunday, May 31 that ended with the arrest of 31 people and broken windows at several Downtown businesses.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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