After looting and riots, volunteers help businesses clean up
From California to Pennsylvania, Good Samaritans flock to help businesses clean up from destructive riots and looting
Target, Walmart, Whole Foods, and Apple are temporarily closing stores across the country to ensure safety during riots and protests. FOX Business' Jackie DeAngelis with more.
Community-minded residents have come together in cities from Long Beach, California, to Philadelphia to clean up after rioters smashed windows and looted stores over the weekend.
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Peaceful protests sparked by the death of George Floyd after he was detained by a white police officer in Minneapolis gave way to violent demonstrations and looting in many major metropolitan areas.
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Workers and a volunteer clean up damage outside a burned-out clothing store in Birmingham, Ala. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)
Neighborhood volunteers clean up broken glass at a Happy Socks store in the SoHo neighborhood of New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Volunteers clean up graffiti on a window at The Pike Outlets, Monday, June 1, 2020, in Long Beach, Calif. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Shelia LeFridge cleans up broken glass inside a Starbucks at The Pike Outlets in Long Beach. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Volunteers clean up broken glass and damaged merchandise at The Pike Outlets on Monday, June 1, 2020, in Long Beach. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Anthony Barr cleans up damaged merchandise inside Hot Topic at The Pike Outlets in Long Beach. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Jeri Hargrove and Jose Roque clean up damaged merchandise inside Hot Topic at The Pike Outlets in Long Beach. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Volunteer community members clean up a looted store in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Volunteer community members clean up a looted store in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Volunteers clean up broken glasses and at The Pike Outlets in Long Beach after overnight protests in reaction to George Floyd's death while in police custody on May 25 in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Volunteers clean up broken glass and damaged merchandise at The Pike Outlets in Long Beach. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Many mayors have instituted curfews to crackdown on rioting as local business owners pick up the pieces. Kyle Denis, owner of two Apex Outfitter stores in North Carolina, told FOX Business he supports a curfew but the "damage is done" already at his downtown Raleigh location.
"We were 100 percent looted," Denis said. "Everything’s gone. We came early [Sunday] morning, and we picked up the pieces, cleaned the glass up, boarded everything up."
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However, community response has been "amazing," he said.
"I got here at little after sunrise [Sunday] morning, and there was just so many people walking around the city, so many people wanted to help," Denis said. "People’s hearts were broken."
It may take time for damaged businesses to reopen, especially small businesses with limited resources.
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Even chain retailers are feeling the pain. A Minneapolis Target store that was looted last week may not reopen until the end of the year.