Baltimore Mayor Lifts Citywide Curfew
Baltimore residents celebrated the lifting of the city’s curfew today, with hundreds of people gathering at city hall for a rally of prayers and song.
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake earlier today announced the end of the citywide curfew that was instituted after riots erupted Monday following the funeral of Freddie Gray.
There were prayers and civil rights songs at the City Hall rally, but speakers also called on the crowd not to stop demanding change and that the six police officers charged in Gray’s death are punished.
“We’ve got to see this all the way through, until all six officers trade in their blue uniform for an orange uniform,” the Rev. Jamal Bryant said. “Let them know: Orange is the new black.”