Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser is calling the City Council "soft on crime" for delaying an extension of a youth curfew.
The Democrat mayor made the comment after the Democrat-majority council voted Wednesday to postpone until April 21 a vote to extend an existing curfew that will leave a six-day gap – April 15 to April 21 – during which no targeted curfew will be in effect, according to local radio station WTOP.
D.C. public school students are on spring break that weekend.
The office of D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson said the lawmaker called Tuesday for the vote to be postponed until the council’s next legislative meeting to allow members to discuss their concerns about the legislation with Bowser and fellow Council member Brook Pinto, who is backing the measure.