Curfew in San Francisco Amid George Floyd Riots
On Sunday, San Francisco mayor London Breed announced a mandatory 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew for the city, beginning that night. After ten weeks of Covid-19-related shelter-in-place, San Francisco is going into an actual lockdown, possibly its first mandatory curfew since martial law was imposed after the 1906 earthquake. The move was precipitated by riots and looting in the city on Saturday night, part of nationwide unrest stemming from the death of George Floyd under a Minneapolis police officer s knee. After a week of riots spreading around the country, the violence reached San Francisco, with stories of vans and trucks double-parked while loading goods looted from downtown shopping destinations.