I’m in Minneapolis. First place I stop, most of the block is still boarded up. This grocery and tobacco store is owned by an Iranian, neighbor tells me. “They took everything.” Owner is deliberating whether to permanently close after the riots

Just next door, a small Vietnamese music shop has been closed since the riots

Just down the street, a Malaysian restaurant is boarded up, but has resumed business. As has a Vietnamese sandwich shop, which just re-opened a few days ago. (I had a sandwich. Vegetarian duck? Was good)

This is just one tiny block -- and it just happened to be the first place I stopped, because I wanted to try the Vietnamese sandwich place. Rioters even smashed the hipster record store!

Nearby a Halal market is boarded up. Its next door neighbor, a child care center, has signs in the windows asking to be spared

Hadn’t realized that the entire area around where George Floyd was killed has been a walled-off memorial zone for the past month

Minneapolis activist Vine explains the current situation in what is now known as George Floyd Plaza

Presented without comment

Not sure what a “mindful preschool” is, but apparently it has something to do with saying the names of people killed by police

Target seems to have forgiven the rioters

One order of cheesy bread please

A polite request, given the circumstances

What remains of the Minneapolis Third Police Precinct building, looks like Bosnia or something

Healthy society

Healthy society update: doesn’t seem healthy for so many small business owners to have to declare their ethnic status

Man tells me George Floyd's death has sparked a worldwide Christian revival movement

Tour of Lake Street in Minneapolis, conducted by me

Small businesses in the area resort to putting up GoFundMe solicitations on their boarded up exteriors

Shuttered beauty supply store in Saint Paul declares itself to be “black owned.” I wonder how Jews feel about this new public ethnicity-identification practice?

Metro PCS store owner says it took him a month to get his windows replaced after trying to go through two different companies. They are still backlogged in the Minneapolis/Saint Paul area

This used to be a sports apparel store and a tattoo parlor

Gas station owner put signs in the windows of the convenience store begging to be spared. Now the property is closed and up for sale

Goodwill in Saint Paul was boarded up only today, presumably due to backlog in the area. Wokers for construction contractor just hauled out the broken windows

Daycare center operated by Somali women was smashed

Entire inventory was stolen from this wig shop (owned by an Asian guy) which shares a lot with a former rental car place

This used to be an Ethiopian restaurant

Oromo Ethiopians gathering in Saint Paul for speeches and chants because, they say, famous singer Haacaaluu Hundeessaa was just killed by police in Ethiopia https://twitter.com/addisstandard/status/1277708558889615360?s=21 https://twitter.com/addisstandard/status/1277708558889615360

Vanessa in Saint Paul gives her thoughts on the riots

Homeless/activist encampment at Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis still in full force over a month after the George Floyd killing. The city Park & Recreation Board is voting tomorrow on a proposal that would effectively end the encampment, but residents say they will refuse to leave

This small Mexican restaurant in Minneapolis had to close for the first time in 25 years due to the riots. The owner tried to reason with the rioters but they wouldn’t listen. Place was closed for 22 days, and since they re-opened a week ago, business has been way down

Would still be curious to know who exactly burned down some of these places after they were looted. I have theories

This used to be an African hair salon and an Ecuadorian restaurant, among other things

Talked to the Somali owner of this small deli. He says his security fired shots to fend off the rioters. The ones who instigated the attack were primarily white, he says, while the blacks hung back. Note the “Anarchy” symbol scrawled on the plywood, popular among white leftists