Just got a text alert that the entire Los Angeles county

[procon]

has been put on a curfew from 6pm to 6am. That's over 10 million people confined at home.

The major cities govt might have enough police on hand to patrol hot spots in LA city, but the county is so huge and much of it is unincorporated, there is no way to enforce this.

[Demovictory9]

1. we were put on curfew during the Rodney King Verdict unrest. It worked out.

[procon]

3. Not so much in my neighborhood.

We put my younger siblings in the bathtub to protect them from bullets that were hitting our house. Cops or rioters, we couldn't tell as we lived on a major street with high traffic and there were running gun battles.

This was in an nice middle class suburb. We were scared to death. Helicopters with search lights were flying overhead, we could hear people shouting and screaming. Probably the scariest night of my life.

[Demovictory9]

6. ah... i lived in the Valley. but we did experience the Bank of America shoot out

so there is that! Life was never dull in Los Angeles.

[grantcart]

12. I thought you were being sardonic, lol.

[Demovictory9]

13. nope. 30 years in the valley. Rodney King, BofA shootout, floods, 94 quake, fires

experienced it ALL.

[Hortensis]

9. What a memory. But at least your family was conforming

to the curfew. The vast majority of Angelenos wouldn't need one to help them decide to stay home tonight.

My husband was just chatting with a friend who lives just east of Santa Monica in Mar Vista, and the only comment about the riots before they were distracted to something presumably more interesting was that our friends had locked their house up last night. And no doubt this one also. Not an evening for going out to dinner.

[marybourg]

2. We're on statewide curfew here in AZ

[Hobo]

4. Just people walking around here

In Long Beach banging on drums and trash can lids but otherwise peaceful, but it’s still light out. Helicopters are flying above.

Hobo

[EllieBC]

5. Isn't there still a stay at home order in LA?

Or is COVID a super intelligent virus that can tell beach goers from protesters?

[Merlot]

7. Stay at home isn't the same as curfew

We can go outside for exercise, groceries, and errands.

[procon]

8. Yeah, I don't get it either.

All these cities with protesters and rioters are going to be swamped with new virus cases in a couple of weeks. All those people who traveled to join the marches, the cops and Natl Guard troops will take that unwanted gift back home with them.

It's gonna be a mess.

[JI7]

10. Stay at home meant certain places had to be closed but people were always allowed out

[EllieBC]

11. Not for gatherings.

We can’t have it both ways. We can’t decide that safer at home except because protests.