India, June 12 -- Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown declared a state of emergency and announced a downtown curfew Wednesday night following protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that resulted in more than 30 arrests, including former city councilman Ben Stuckart.

The curfew began at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday and remains in effect until 5 a.m. Thursday. It applies to the area bounded by Boone Avenue to Spokane Falls Boulevard and Howard Street to Division Street, including Riverfront Park.

"We want everybody to be safe and we thought this was the best path forward in order to achieve that," Brown said during the press briefing. "I made the decision that the safest course of action was by Spokane Police, not ICE, to try to safely di...