All was well here, until after dark, then the instigators took over after the decent people went home.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
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That matches what happened here in San Antonio Saturday night.
We just had a protest march go down Main Street in my hometown. Lots of chants of "No Justice, No Peace" and the whole crowd taking a knee. All seems peaceful so far. I just wish it hadn't happened when I was on a live conference call so I could have at least gone down to kneel in solidarity if not actually join the march.
Much the same here - things were comparatively peaceful until after dark, then it started getting ugly. Someone set a fire in the basement of my church's parish house, but it was put out fairly quickly without a LOT of damage. And the church was untouched. The rector was camping with his family and pretty much unreachable; his main problem was not being able to figure out how to turn off the alarm.
Our curfew keeps expanding -- Saturday night it was just 4 neighborhoods within city limits, downtown and close to downtown, at 10 p.m. Then last night it expanded to all 52 neighborhoods, at 9 p.m. And I just read that for tonight it's expanded to 8 p.m., even though last night was (I think) fairly peaceful, even after dark.
Oh damn, I just read that our city hall is being evacuated right now because of the protests.
Dallas is under curfew as of last night.
Could I send you four seconds of comic relief?
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Timelies all!
Another normal(for us) day for us here.(Which of course included Mr. S having a meltdown when we wouldn't let him do what he wanted- which was playing with tennis balls in the house and drinking Gary's flavored water. So hard to be a preschooler...)
All of Los Angeles county was under curfew from 6 PM to 6 AM. Some cities are doing curfews for the business areas starting as early at 1 PM today. I think at the moment that is Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, and West Hollywood. We were supposed to work 4 PM to Midnight tonight at a jobsite near downtown, first we changed that to 1 PM to 5 PM, and then today I made the call with my staff that we are not going to that jobsite until things calm down. The national guard is mobilized and patrolling downtown LA and I feel that our unmarked white cargo van could be a target for both sids, looters and the police depending on how you look at it.