I pay my taxes. I plan to be outside my house tonight even if it means getting arrested. But city officials insist the curfew is their only way of trying to quell the rioting. It was the first time a citywide curfew has been declared since the riots that erupted in black neighborhoods after the murder of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968. Mr. Taft said the idea of using the Ohio National Guard to quell the riots has not been discussed in talks with the mayor's office.
Police escort a fire truck on a run.
Twenty-two juveniles and 60 adults were arrested in Wednesday night's violence. Ray Ruberg, spokesman for the Cincinnati police. Findlay Market merchants, however, had yet to decide whether they would reopen Saturday. Mr. Luken said the violence of Tuesday and Wednesday nights, which started with protests over Saturday's shooting, could no longer be tolerated. Shannon Ferrell displays a wound from a bean-bag shot.