Wide damage in Washington, DC from rioting, looting, vandalism, arson on Sunday

11:59 AM ET, June 1, WTOP All News Radio, Washington, DC:

Bowser orders new curfew; ‘sad and angry’ after destruction, mayhem in DC during protests

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered another curfew for the District on Monday, starting at 7 p.m. and lasting until 6 a.m., following protests in response to the death of George Floyd in police custody.
She said the city will also be under a curfew Tuesday night as D.C. expects more demonstrations.

“I have spent this morning walking around the city to assess damage, and there is significant damage in the downtown areas, especially in the blocks immediately around Lafayette Square,” Bowser said at a news conference.
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Among the stores damaged during Sunday’s protests were a looted liquor store in Foggy Bottom, a Giant food store in Shaw and a Sephora in Gallery Place. In Friendship Heights and Tenleytown, many stores were boarded up Monday, including a Target — which was hit — along with Rodman’s specialty store on Wisconsin Avenue.
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Mayor Bowser knows Friendship Heights and Tenleytown aren't in downtown DC; they're in they city's upper Northwest with a mostly-white population. She also knows she left the door wide open for the mobs by not calling for a curfew on Sunday until 11 PM and bringing in only a small contingent of DC National Guards when the mobs were already clearly staging for an onslaught. 

She also knows that her Deer in the Headlights response to the mobs worked against the Covid lockdown and social distancing in DC that she's worked so hard to establish and maintain.

Or did she want to see Abraham Lincoln's memorial and the WWII Memorial defaced?  Did she want to see a church set afire?  Did she want the whole world to see the capital city of United States of America in chaos because -- uh, black people were angry?     

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