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Boarded-up Apple Stores decorated in touching tribute messages

The stores were boarded up to prevent looting, protestors turned them into canvases of hope.
Stephen Warwick
4 Jun 2020

Apple Store BlmSource: @TobeySanford

What you need to know

  • Apple has boarded up many of its stores to protect against looting and rioting.
  • Protestors have adorned them with positive messages.
  • In Naperville, heart-shaped notes were left with messages of love and support.

Apple stores in America, boarded up to prevent looting, have been adorned with messages of hope and support for the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

As reported by 9to5Mac:

Activism sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis has spread across all 50 US states. Apple Stores have been swept up in the momentum, looted and vandalized as some protests turned to violence. Now, some peaceful protestors are reimagining the boarded-up windows of Apple Stores as canvases for a positive message.

As Michael Steeber notes, over a dozen Apple stores in the U.S. were looted over the weekend, as protests over the death of George Floyd turned violent, with rioting and looting distracting many from the message at hand.

Apple has since boarded up some of its stores and has also closed many stores it had previously just reopened across the country. The report highlights how some of the boarded-up stores have been used to spread messages of hope.

The Apple store in Portland was adorned with a huge 'I can't breathe' mural:

https://twitter.com/Alice_Evelyn_/status/1267608590811951107?

In Naperville, dozens of people left heart-shaped messages on the store:

I learned a thing or two from my kids today and #Naperville youth.
They aren’t satisfied waiting for a change or recognition of injustice, they are doing it.
I’m learning a lot, actually. pic.twitter.com/vG6IkVmbGq

— JT Patten - Author (@JTPattenBooks) June 3, 2020

❤️ #BLM in #Naperville pic.twitter.com/1FGDvsPoCE

— Tobey Sanford (@TobeySanford) June 3, 2020

Another mural and messages of support for the 'Black Lives Matter' movement were seen in Palo Alto:

My local @Apple store, boarded up to protect from looters but creating a canvas for #peaceful #protest~#PaloAlto #GeorgeFloyd #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/KOh3ym7HaG

— Rhonda Abrams (@RhondaAbrams) June 3, 2020

Earlier today, Tim Cook penned an open letter titled Speaking up on racism, in which he described the killing of George Floyd as "senseless" and said that "we must do more." Apple has not commented at all on the destruction seen in some of its retail locations.

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