. >> joining us is sonia kumar, a staff attorney for the aclu. >> thank you for having me. >> why has the aclu asked to lift the curfew? >> we're joining a chorus of organizations and businesses that you and other media have been talking to all week saying that we've shown we're okay right now, we have the right to be out in our city, going about our daily lives. the situation is under control. we've had several -- we've had a number of protests that have been entirely peaceful, thousands of people in the streets, and we're sort of ready for the sort of extra sense that we're under an extra sense of surveillance and sort of military style enforcement, we're ready for that to -- for this extra layer to be rolled back. >> in terms of the curfew enforcement thus far, obviously nobody really knew what was going to happen when baltimore started to enforce this, this 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew. there was a bit of a violent confrontation that didn't last very long the first night they tried to enforce that. since then it seems to have been enforced peacefully and overall the violent clashes be