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Brooms in hand, people patch up stores damaged in protests

by Associated Press
| June 2, 2020 12:03 AM

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Carrying brooms, shovels, trash bags and cans of paint, thousands of people from Los Angeles to New York swept up glass from broken store windows, covered over graffiti and organized ransacked businesses Monday after protests over police killings of black people turned destructive once again.

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