Rhode Island cities announce curfews after last night’s riot

Mayor Jorge O. Elorza today signed a new Executive Order implementing a citywide curfew effective tonight, June 2 at 9:00 PM.

Given the incidents last night where the City of Providence experienced substantial violence including the vandalism, breaking and entering and looting of numerous storefronts, City Officials have decided to implement a citywide curfew from 9:00PM-6:00AM until June 9th, 2020 during which time no person shall be allowed in the public streets, ways, or places of the city.

This curfew will not apply to first responders, emergency medical technicians; individuals traveling directly to and from essential work or performing essential work; people experiencing homelessness and without access to a viable shelter; individuals seeking medical treatment or medical supplies or fleeing dangerous circumstances; police officers; peace officers; firefighters and members of the news media.

Mayor Allan Fung of Cranston also instituted a curfew from 8:00PM tonight until 5:00AM on June 3rd.

Mayor Joseph Solomon signed an executive order implementing a citywide curfew for the City of Warwick, which will take effect at 8:00 p.m. this evening and will be lifted at 5:00 a.m. tomorrow morning.

Providence Police report that they have arrested 65 individuals in last night’s riot. A good number of the defendants were from the Providence area, however, one was from New Bedford.