Houston Mayor Considers Curfew After Videos Show Packed Lil Baby Concert

The mayor of the largest city in Texas is considering a curfew after videos of a well-attended Lil Baby concert have gone viral.

"It's very disturbing," Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner told ABC 13. "The way I look at it, it's quite selfish on their part."

Rapper Lil Baby, born Dominique Armani Jones, had a Thanksgiving Eve concert at the club Spire. Social media videos from the even show a crowd of mostly maskless people standing close to each other.

Under Texas' current COVID-19 restrictions, Spire is allowed to have up to 800 people inside its venue. The club's management told local media that it was under its legal occupancy on November 25, the night of the Lil Baby show.

"Every night we deal with keeping people socially distant. We get visited by [the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission] and Fire Marshall almost every night we are open and follow the rules doing our best. Once Lil Baby started to perform, people got out of their seats and rushed towards the front area, so we had to cut the concert short," management from Spire said in a statement.

Spire has had it's liquor license suspended twice during the pandemic and is under investigation for possible noncompliance issues, TABC told KENS 5.

Turner is asking businesses to do the right thing and follow current COVID-19 regulations, but the mayor said he hasn't ruled out taking additional steps to keep the city safe.

“The last resource that we have as local officials, at least within my arsenal, is to impose a curfew to just shut it down at a certain time,” Turner said.

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