West Sacramento lifts its curfew, but plans to renew it this weekend

West Sacramento is lifting its curfew, for the time being.

The city announced Wednesday that its director of emergency services decided to pull the curfew, effective Wednesday evening. The curfew had gone into effect Monday at 8 p.m. and ran until 5 a.m. for two nights.

City officials expect to revive the curfew Friday night, but with a narrower time frame. The new curfew will begin at 10 p.m. and run through 4 a.m. The curfew is expected to be ended Monday morning.

The city of Sacramento is keeping its curfew in effect through the weekend as it deals multiple nights of protests and a weekend of vandalism that caused an estimated $10 million in damages in downtown and midtown. The California National Guard is patrolling outside state office buildings, City Hall, the Superior Court and other buildings.

Protesters have largely stayed in Sacramento, although one group of demonstrators crossed the Tower Bridge on Saturday and marched through the area around Sutter Health Park, the baseball stadium formerly known as Raley Field. Some protesters splintered from that group and tried to get onto the Capital City Freeway at Jefferson Boulevard, but were pushed back with batons by California Highway Patrol officers.