DC mayor calls for extension to coronavirus restrictions to keep protesters away from inauguration

Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser said she wants to extend the city’s coronavirus restrictions in order to keep people who may be planning to protest the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden out of the city.

“People coming to demonstrate peacefully are very different than the people we saw storm the Capitol. I think it will be shown those were organized, trained people,” Bowser said, according to Washington Post reporter David Nakamura. “If I’m scared of anything, it’s for our democracy.”