At Least 14 Stores Damaged in Lower Manhattan During Weekend Protests

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6/1/2020|Updated: 6/2/2020

New York—At least 14 stores were damaged from rioting during protests in the SoHo shopping district in lower Manhattan over the weekend following the killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.

A few locations in New York City erupted in protests on Saturday night and by Monday the SoHo neighborhood looked like a war zone, with damaged stores clearing up broken glass and boarding their display windows.

Venus Upadhayaya

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Venus Upadhayaya reports on India, China, and the Global South. Her traditional area of expertise is in Indian and South Asian geopolitics. Community media, sustainable development, and leadership remain her other areas of interest.

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