Article:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2020/06/01/protesters-mbta-george-floyd-boston/%3famp=1
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Whose idea was it to shut down the MBTA so that people couldn't get out? Did it not occur to anyone to change the schedule for the protest?
The article said that most of the protesters were peaceful, which I believe.
Boylston and Newbury Streets are trashed. There were also businesses in surrounding streets that were targeted.
These were not just businesses that sell expensive products. Three 7-11 and three CVS locations had broken windows. At least one CVS also had cash registers stolen; I talked to one of the employees and he told me. One of the other two CVS stores had every window broken except for one front door. The other had every window broken as far as I could tell.
7-11 and CVS both take food stamps and fed me for years when I was homeless. They are not elitist. They do everything they can to provide affordable products, including food. No way. No.
Local businesses were also targeted, as if life isn't tough enough for independent business owners right now.
Every single window in the Nike store was broken. I'm no Nike supporter, but that's low, considering how many professional athletes have been protesting police brutality for years.
I walked from the Park Street train station up Boylston Street as far as H&M before I knew that anything had happened. It was shocking; all three windows of the store front were fragmented. I could have walked into the store through any of them. Mannequins were lying on the floor. I could see several hundred yards into the store; clothing was all over the place.
That was the beginning. I walked around for a couple of hours, in a scene that was nothing like anything else that I have ever experienced.
There was some "BLM" graffiti, including on the side of the Boston Public Library. The Boston Public Library is open and free to everyone.
There are several old churches in that area, with irreplaceable stained glass windows. One of those churches is the Church of the Covenant, where the Women's Lunch Place for homeless women started decades ago in the basement and where that program still provides day services Monday through Saturday. Fortunately, I didn't see damage to the churches.
There are also apartments throughout that area; it is commercially and residentially mixed. Last night has to have been the scariest night of those residents' lives.
These riots have to stop. This destruction has nothing to do with anyone's life mattering.