By Rain Noe From Core77

"We don't want the message of the protests to get lost"

Once again peaceful protests were hijacked by looters, and we were all bombarded with the footage. For the sake of balance, here's footage of the opposite of that: Citizen volunteers who showed up on the mornings after with brooms in hand, helping their local businesses clean up and repair what they can.

In Sacramento:

In Atlanta:

In Van Nuys:

In Atlanta, the best incidence we've seen yet. Cleanup organizer Pierre Paul drove down from Illinois, contacted a trash company and assembled hundreds of volunteers to pitch in:

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