A protest in Naperville that began peacefully took an unsightly flip overdue Monday night time as government stated a unique team of protesters arrived and started breaking home windows and looting downtown companies.
The vandalism and looting started round 9:35 p.m. — regardless of a Nine p.m. curfew — when one protester activate a firework that led to an explosion. Vandals then broke home windows at greater than a dozen downtown institutions, together with Barnes & Noble, Talbots, Sullivan’s Steakhouse, Walgreens, Smoothie King, Bangkok Village, Pandora, Starbucks and the Gap. Looters additionally entered some companies, police stated, and attempted unsuccessfully to damage into the Apple retailer.
Some downtown companies had boarded up their home windows prior to the protest started at three p.m. and maximum had closed early on the town’s urging.
Naperville police Cmdr. Mike Son stated the wear and tear started after the firework used to be activate. Many protesters ran from the Washington Street and Chicago Avenue intersection the place the firework went off, however didn’t instantly go away downtown and started breaking home windows and getting into companies.
“This appeared to be a different group,” Son stated. “They weren’t protesting the same way the other group was.”
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