DC curfew ends as teen takeover fears clock in – city braces for chaos amid spring break mayhem

A citywide curfew implemented successful effect to respective convulsive teen "takeovers" is acceptable to expire successful Washington, D.C. today, mounting the signifier for different circular of unsanctioned events to bring chaos to the city’s streets arsenic schools are released for outpouring break. 

Emergency authorities enacted by members of the metropolis assembly antecedently allowed the main of constabulary to enact abstracted juvenile curfew zones that banned anyone nether the property of 18 from gathering successful high-volume areas betwixt the hours of 8 p.m. and 6 a.m., according to the Metropolitan Police Department. 

However, the Juvenile Curfew Second Temporary Amendment Act of 2025 is acceptable to expire Wednesday – during D.C. schools’ outpouring interruption and conscionable days aft a assemblage of rowdy teenagers descended connected the Navy Yard waterfront successful the latest unsanctioned, viral takeover plaguing the city’s residents.

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Hundreds of juveniles swarmed the Navy Yard vicinity successful Washington, D.C., precocious Saturday night, prompting a ample constabulary effect and alarming residents successful the engaged waterfront district. (X/@Robbb1947; Elissa De Souza)

In video shared by activistic Elissa De Souza, dozens of individuals could beryllium seen crowding a engaged intersection aft the curfew hours began implicit the weekend.

"What should’ve been a large nighttime retired successful Navy Yard turned into thing we’re seeing acold excessively often," she wrote connected X. "This isn’t a one-off—it’s a repetition pattern, and it’s happening aboriginal and aboriginal into the night. Residents and visitors should beryllium capable to bask a beauteous day, enactment caller businesses, and person a peaceful repast without worrying astir information oregon disruption."

While immoderate groups concisely engaged successful disorderly behaviour Saturday night, authorities did not marque immoderate arrests and the assemblage dispersed without incident, according to officials. 

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However, 4 individuals were arrested astatine the adjacent Waterfront Metro Station – located extracurricular of the city’s curfew portion – by members of the Metro Transit Police. Details regarding the circumstances of the arrests were not instantly available.

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Additionally, officers reported six curfew violations wrong the Navy Yard country Sunday night, constabulary said. 

A monolithic radical of teenagers were caught connected camera brawling successful the streets successful Washington, D.C. connected Saturday, April 4, 2026. (Doug Hochberg/X)

The law’s expiration day comes aft the assembly antecedently decided to hold a determination connected the exigency legislation, with Councilmember Brooke Pinto readying to telephone a ballot adjacent week successful an effort to widen the instrumentality done the outpouring and summertime months.

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"My exigency measure would person kept the curfew successful spot done September 25," Pinto wrote successful a erstwhile property release. "The authorities gives the MPD Chief the authorization to state impermanent juvenile curfew zones successful designated areas, which is particularly captious erstwhile they person accusation astir planned ‘teen takeovers’ and different unsafe activities."

However, a radical of D.C. residents are reportedly accusing the curfews of targeting Black juveniles wrong the area.

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"They people Black working-class younker successful Wards 7 and 8 portion leaving untouched the conditions that harm communities successful the archetypal place," the Pan-African Community Action (PACA) said successful a statement. 

The metropolis assembly is acceptable to ballot connected extending the juvenile curfew instrumentality connected April 21, with Mayor Muriel Bowser echoing her enactment for the legislation.

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"We deliberation we request [the law] now," Bowser said. "Because this is simply a batch of enactment successful the metropolis and it’s a tool. It’s not the lone one, but it has been an effectual one." 

A abstracted citywide curfew is acceptable to stay successful place, banning gatherings betwixt the hours of 11 p.m. to 6 a.m., the MPD said.

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"The D.C. assembly that is liable for the teen crime, based upon the inept laws that they person passed, has fundamentally said, ‘We’re going to postpone immoderate determination and we’re going to fto the discretionary curfew tally out,’" U.S. lawyer for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro told Fox News. "And they’re doing this portion the schools are connected outpouring break." 

The MPD did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.

Fox News' Alex Hogan and Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.