![]() Bagels shop across the street from the statehouse. Protesters smashed a storefront at the Einstein Bros. A DGX store, a subsidiary of Dollar General, was broken into, along with windows at offices, other restaurants and a gym. Protesters broke windows for several blocks along South High Street and East Broad Street-the main arteries through downtown-including at the county courthouse and municipal court building. “I receive those words and emotions with empathy and a commitment to seek solutions and justice, to seek justice when it is denied,” he said. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.Demonstrators also chanted, “Black lives matter” and “I can’t breathe.”Īddressing Ohio’s black citizens directly, DeWine said he wanted to assure them they are valued members of the community and that he hears and acknowledges their pain, anger and grief. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. ![]() INSKEEP: An effort to close down yet another avenue of response.Ĭopyright © 2023 NPR. On Friday, two Republican state lawmakers introduced a bill that would ban mayors from enacting curfews for people under 18 unless they said there is what they called a clear and present emergency as determined by legislators or a city. KASLER: Well, Republican lawmakers have passed laws banning Ohio cities, which are mostly run by Democrats, from enacting their own gun control legislation while they've been expanding gun rights at the statehouse, including allowing permitless concealed carry, expanding the Stand Your Ground law to any place, not just a home. INSKEEP: How did Ohio's Republican legislature respond to this move? But the area still seemed to bring in visitors, some saying they actually appreciate the extra police presence. Many of them have private security, and they want the city to focus on other things. But bars and restaurants, for the most part, did not close early. KASLER: It doesn't seem that there were any major problems, though the scene over the weekend looked kind of like most weekends. INSKEEP: How are people responding, then, to this effort to cut down on gun violence by cutting down on business? Columbus and the state of Ohio are in a court battle over which one actually has the power to regulate guns. The city has to do these changes because they can't enact gun regulations. And anyone arrested for street racing would lose their vehicles and would not get plea bargains. Columbus police officers were stepping up patrols in the area. He signed an executive order that food trucks would shut down at midnight, and he asked for bars and restaurants - about a third of the businesses in that area are bars and restaurants - to close at midnight Friday and Saturday and that parking would be restricted. KASLER: Last week, Mayor Andrew Ginther announced that the city was enforcing a midnight curfew for 13- to 17-year-olds. So how did the mayor respond to these shootings exactly? Many cities have that kind of trendy district, which attracts a lot of business, a lot of nightlife. ![]() INSKEEP: And you can just kind of picture that. And, of course, the Short North - it's an arts and entertainment district, about 300 businesses there, and it attracts millions of people to the area. That number dropped last year, but the city recovered more guns than ever last year and is on track to surpass that number this year. Columbus had a record number of homicides in 2021. The following weekend, a fight ended with a 21-year-old man shot dead. Police officers fired their weapons - 11 guns recovered. It was described as chaos, bullets going through glass windows on storefronts, ricocheting around the area. KASLER: Well, that shootout, when 10 people were hurt, on May 6 was one of two back-to-back violent incidents in two weekends in the well-known Short North area. KAREN KASLER, BYLINE: Good morning, Steve. INSKEEP: So how did the business closing work out? Karen Kasler with Ohio Public Radio is on the line. After two shootings in Columbus, Ohio, Mayor Andrew Ginther called for businesses to close early.ĪNDREW GINTHER: When 10 people are shot that we know of and 11 guns recovered that we know of in one particular incident, that requires unprecedented change. And so far, gun violence has killed more than 7,000 people this year. Many state legislatures have lifted regulations that they had. The Supreme Court has sharply limited gun regulations. Now, what can a city really do about gun violence?
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