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

Published January 11, 2021 8:28pm ET



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.”

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