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Stock futures little changed, with Wall Street set to hold on to May's strong gains - CNBC
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U.S. stock futures hovered around the flatline on Sunday night as Wall Street prepared to kick off June trading after consecutive monthly gains.
Dow Jones Industrial Average futures traded 29 points lower, with an implied Monday opening loss of 5 points. S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures also pointed to a little changed open for the two indexes.
The moves in futures had earlier followed positive momentum in Monday trade for Asia, with Hong Kong's Hang Seng index surging more than 3% in the morning. That came as data showed China's manufacturing activity in expanding in May. Investors have been monitoring China's economic data for signs of recovery in the country, where the coronavirus was first reported.
Looking ahead, here's what traders were monitoring heading into the new month:
- States continue to reopen their economies after the coronavirus pandemic forced the country to shutter nonessential businesses. The reopening is now taking place amid widespread protests across the U.S. over police brutality.
- Traders are also grappling with rising tensions between China and the U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday the U.S. would end its special treatment towards Hong Kong.
- The announcement came after China had approved a national security bill that would increase the mainland's power over the city. However, Wall Street breathed a sigh of relief as Trump did not say he would pull the U.S. out of the phase one trade deal reached earlier this year.
- Disappointing trial results from Pfizer for a breast cancer drug dampened market sentiment. The company made the announcement Friday evening, sending its stock down more than 6% in after-hours trading.
"Nothing that has happened since the market closed on Friday has been market positive," said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at National Securities. "When you think about clearly we're beginning to take U.S.-China tensions seriously and you add on to that the massive amount of disruption going on in almost every major city in the country right now, none of that could be seen as market positive."
"At the levels we're at, I wouldn't be surprised to see the market take a pause and pull back," Hogan added.
The S&P 500 and Dow each gained at least 3% last week while the Nasdaq Composite advanced 1.8% to close out May. Those gains were propelled by increasing bets by traders that the global economy will successfully reopen after the coronavirus forces a shutdown of most economic activity.
Last week's gains led the major averages to their first back-to-back monthly advances since late 2019. The Dow and S&P 500 gained 4.3% and 4.5%, respectively, for May while the Nasdaq Composite advanced 6.8%.
That advance also put the S&P 500 up 38% from its intraday low set on March 23.
"The main downside risk facing stocks is a second wave of the disease," said Peter Berezin, chief global strategist at BCA Research, in a note to clients. "If fears of a new outbreak were to escalate, risk assets would suffer."
Berezin added, however, he recommends a "modest overweight" portfolio allocation to stocks, noting: "Even if a vaccine does not become available later this year, increased testing should allow for a more economically palatable approach to containment strategies."
More than 6 million coronavirus cases have been confirmed globally, including over 1.7 million in the U.S., according to Johns Hopkins University. However, Novavax said last week is started Phase 1 clinical trials for its coronavirus vaccine candidate while Moderna said May 18 its early stage vaccine trial had yielded positive results.
—CNBC's Patti Domm and Eustance Huang contributed to this report.
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Protesters Block West 7th Street Bridge In Fort Worth, Officers Use Tear Gas - CBS Dallas / Fort Worth
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – Protesters are blocking off traffic on the West 7th Street bridge in Fort Worth, forcing police to use tear gas to try to disperse the crowd.
Since Friday evening, there have been multiple protests and marches in Fort Worth in response to the in-custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
These protests have remained mostly peaceful. This is the first sight of protesters blocking off the West 7th Street bridge over the Trinity River.
At around 10:30 p.m., officers used tear gas to try to remove the crowd from the bridge after the protesters had been there for hours.
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Unrest Devastates a City's Landmark Street of Diversity - Voice of America
Along the miles-long Minneapolis street where more than a century of migrants have found their American footholds - Germans, Swedes, Vietnamese, Somalis, Mexicans - a new history can be traced.
There's the smoldering police station torched early Thursday morning by protesters enraged by the death of George Floyd while in custody. There's the Wells Fargo bank branch a couple of blocks away that mobs stormed through the next night, leaving behind a carpet of shattered glass and strewn paperwork. "Kill Bankers" reads the graffiti now spray-painted on an outside wall.
Go further up Lake Street and there's more fresh history: the Somali restaurant with the broken windows, the empty hulk of a burned sneaker store, the boarded-up party supply store owned by a Mexican immigrant who had been praying for the coronavirus lockdown to end to so he could reopen.
The protests that have roiled Minneapolis night after night didn't inflame just a single neighborhood: Much of the violence raged up Lake Street, an artery of commerce and culture that cuts across a broad swath of the city.
For residents, for business people, for artists, the Lake Street corridor has long been a symbol of the city's complex history, a block-by-block study in immigration, economic revitalization and persistent inequality.
On one end is a trendy district of bars and shopping. On the other are quiet neighborhoods atop the Mississippi River bluff. Between the two is a timeline that spans almost five miles marking each wave of arrivals, along with a tangle of languages spoken in each group's markets, restaurants, churches and community groups.
The Lake Street businesses owned by Suad Hassan's family are now boarded up, bearing messages like "black owned – solidarity." Each night, the family has stood guard, successfully begging the mobs to pass them by.
The 35-year-old was born in Somalia, but her family fled the country to escape war when she was a child.
"When I saw the fire two nights ago, it was like a trauma that was triggered again for me," she said. "I had put that away in my life a long, long time ago ... I told my mom 'This is a war zone.'"
It's Lake Street's minority-owned small businesses that may suffer the most from the racial firestorm that hit the city this week. As thousands of people protested a police force with a history of violence against people of color, the collateral damage spread wide — from immigrant-owned restaurants to a center for Native American youth to an affordable housing complex under construction.
"What happened with Mr. Floyd is a horror," said Eduardo Barrera, the general manager of Mercado Central, a cooperative of largely Latino-owned businesses that help spark economic revitalization along the street when it opened 20 years ago. The muraled corner building was broken into twice during the unrest, with some of its goods stolen.
"Nothing changes and people feel they've lost everything," Barrera said. "There's nothing to lose for them anymore. When there's no justice, no fairness and no equity, they lose hope."
"But we are hurting ourselves," he said.
Many speculate that Lake Street was hit so hard because its eastern stretch includes the station associated with the white officer now charged with murdering Floyd. The destruction is particularly painful because Lake Street had become a success story, an achievement people took pride in.
Residents and business owners say they've spent the last 20 years working to revive its chain of neighborhoods -- many blighted by years of neglect, suburban flight and disinvestment.
Deb Frank moved into the Longfellow neighborhood just off East Lake Street 25 years ago, buying a two-bedroom, 100-year-old home for $40,000. The mail carrier and her neighbors teamed up to rid the area of two brothels by calling in license plates to the police and embarrassing the patrons.
Frank and her husband became used to walking to restaurants and coffee shops. "It was a really big transformation," she said,
Today, she wonders: Is it all fleeting?
"It took years to get where we were and here we're back in square one," she said, noting even the local post office had been damaged enough to disrupt mail service. "No, we're worse than square one."
By all accounts, immigrant entrepreneurs have been the engine of Lake Street's repeated resurgences. The stretch, which runs east-west through the city's south side, has long been a landing pad for recent arrivals to the city.
Early in the last century, it was Germans like Emil Schatzlein, who opened a saddle shop on West Lake Street in 1907 that still sells cowboy boots today. And the Scandinavians whose imprint is still visible in the nearly 100-year-old Ingebretsen's Nordic Marketplace, a local institution known for its lefse and herring.
Today, within a couple blocks of Ingebretsen's, you can buy a bottle of fresh camel milk in an East African grocery and fried tortillas at Taqueria La Poblanita.
Just like many American cities, the 1960s saw a stream of white residents and businesses leave Lake Street for the suburbs. Buildings emptied out. By the time the Sears department store abandoned its towering building in the mid-1990s, much of the corridor was desperate for an economic infusion.
"It reinvented itself as an immigrant gateway," said Bill Convery, director of research at the Minnesota Historical Society. "The economic blight led to opportunity."
Somali immigrants fleeing war were among those who soon took advantage of the affordable rents to build businesses. Community organizations reopened the Sears building as the Midtown Global Marketplace, a showcase for food and crafts.
Still, the economic progress did not erase the stubborn poverty, the racism or the striking inequality.
The corridor's neighborhoods, along with city's north side and core, know about police tensions all too well. An ACLU study of city arrests from 2012-2014 found black and Native American people more than eight times more likely than white people to be arrested for low-level offenses.
Minneapolis also has wrestled with its growing racial segregation -- a division uncomfortably illustrated by driving east on Lake Street, which begins in the overwhelmingly white, quiet and leafy neighborhoods near Uptown before shifting into largely black or mixed neighborhoods.
Business already were suffering from the pandemic's stay-at-home orders when the protests started.
Gregorio De La Cruz a Mexican immigrant, was just starting to reopen his two East Lake Street businesses -- a party supply and candy store, and a commercial cleaning business -- when the violence erupted. Less than a mile from the torched police precinct, he has closed shop again.
"I never imagined there would be so much violence in this neighborhood," he said, his eyes welling up as his 19-year-old daughter translated his Spanish words into English.
"We understand what's going on and we get that this is important. They have a right to protest. I wish they'd do it peacefully," he said.
De La Cruz hung a sign on his boarded-up door -- "Justicia Por Georrge Floyd" -- one of scores of pleas emblazoned on Lake Street's plywood-lined storefronts. Two doors down, Ingebretsen's offered another: "One Human Family."
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Unrest devastates a city's landmark street of diversity - Minneapolis Star Tribune
MINNEAPOLIS — Along the miles-long Minneapolis street where more than a century of migrants have found their American footholds -- Germans, Swedes, Vietnamese, Somalis, Mexicans -- a new history can be traced.
There’s the smoldering police station torched early Thursday morning by protesters enraged by the death of George Floyd while in custody. There’s the Wells Fargo bank branch a couple of blocks away that mobs stormed through the next night, leaving behind a carpet of shattered glass and strewn paperwork. “Kill Bankers” reads the graffiti now spray-painted on an outside wall.
Go further up Lake Street and there’s more fresh history: the Somali restaurant with the broken windows, the empty hulk of a burned sneaker store, the boarded-up party supply store owned by a Mexican immigrant who had been praying for the coronavirus lockdown to end so he could reopen.
The protests that have roiled Minneapolis night after night didn’t inflame just a single neighborhood: Much of the violence raged up Lake Street, an artery of commerce and culture that cuts across a broad swath of the city.
For residents, for businesspeople, for artists, the Lake Street corridor has long been a symbol of the city’s complex history, a block-by-block study in immigration, economic revitalization and persistent inequality.
On one end is a trendy district of bars and shopping. On the other are quiet neighborhoods atop the Mississippi River bluff. Between the two is a timeline that spans almost five miles marking each wave of arrivals, along with a tangle of languages spoken in each group’s markets, restaurants, churches and community groups.
The Lake Street businesses owned by Suad Hassan's family are now boarded up, bearing messages like “black owned – solidarity.” Each night, the family has stood guard, successfully begging the mobs to pass them by.
The 35-year-old was born in Somalia, but her family fled the country to escape war when she was a child.
“When I saw the fire two nights ago, it was like a trauma that was triggered again for me,” she said. “I had put that away in my life a long, long time ago ... I told my mom ‘This is a war zone.’”
It’s Lake Street's minority-owned small businesses that may suffer the most from the racial firestorm that hit the city this week. As thousands of people protested a police force with a history of violence against people of color, the collateral damage spread wide — from immigrant-owned restaurants to a center for Native American youth to an affordable housing complex under construction.
“What happened with Mr. Floyd is a horror,” said Eduardo Barrera, the general manager of Mercado Central, a cooperative of largely Latino-owned businesses that helped spark economic revitalization along the street when it opened 20 years ago. The muraled corner building was broken into twice during the unrest, with some of its goods stolen.
“Nothing changes and people feel they’ve lost everything,” Barrera said. “There’s nothing to lose for them anymore. When there’s no justice, no fairness and no equity, they lose hope.”
“But we are hurting ourselves,” he said.
Many speculate that Lake Street was hit so hard because its eastern stretch includes the station associated with the white officer now charged with murdering Floyd. The destruction is particularly painful because Lake Street had become a success story, an achievement people took pride in.
Residents and business owners say they’ve spent the last 20 years working to revive its chain of neighborhoods -- many blighted by years of neglect, suburban flight and disinvestment.
Deb Frank moved into the Longfellow neighborhood just off East Lake Street 25 years ago, buying a two-bedroom, 100-year-old home for $40,000. The mail carrier and her neighbors teamed up to rid the area of two brothels by calling in license plates to the police and embarrassing the patrons.
Frank and her husband became used to walking to restaurants and coffee shops. “It was a really big transformation,” she said.
Today, she wonders: Is it all fleeting?
“It took years to get where we were and here we’re back in square one,” she said, noting even the local post office had been damaged enough to disrupt mail service. “No, we’re worse than square one.”
By all accounts, immigrant entrepreneurs have been the engine of Lake Street’s repeated resurgences. The stretch, which runs east-west through the city’s south side, has long been a landing pad for recent arrivals to the city.
Early in the last century, it was Germans like Emil Schatzlein, who opened a saddle shop on West Lake Street in 1907 that still sells cowboy boots today. And the Scandinavians whose imprint is still visible in the nearly 100-year-old Ingebretsen’s Nordic Marketplace, a local institution known for its lefse and herring.
Today, within a couple blocks of Ingebretsen’s, you can buy a bottle of fresh camel milk in an East African grocery and fried tortillas at Taqueria La Poblanita.
Just like many American cities, the 1960s saw a stream of white residents and businesses leave Lake Street for the suburbs. Buildings emptied out. By the time the Sears department store abandoned its towering building in the mid-1990s, much of the corridor was desperate for an economic infusion.
“It reinvented itself as an immigrant gateway,” said Bill Convery, director of research at the Minnesota Historical Society. “The economic blight led to opportunity.”
Somali immigrants fleeing war were among those who soon took advantage of the affordable rents to build businesses. Community organizations reopened the Sears building as the Midtown Global Marketplace, a showcase for food and crafts.
Still, the economic progress did not erase the stubborn poverty, the racism or the striking inequality.
The corridor’s neighborhoods, along with city’s north side and core, know about police tensions all too well. An ACLU study of city arrests from 2012-2014 found black and Native American people more than eight times more likely than white people to be arrested for low-level offenses.
Minneapolis also has wrestled with its growing racial segregation -- a division uncomfortably illustrated by driving east on Lake Street, which begins in the overwhelmingly white, quiet and leafy neighborhoods near Uptown before shifting into largely black or mixed neighborhoods.
Businesses already were suffering from the pandemic’s stay-at-home orders when the protests started.
Gregorio De La Cruz, a Mexican immigrant, was just starting to reopen his two East Lake Street businesses -- a party supply and candy store, and a commercial cleaning business -- when the violence erupted. Less than a mile from the torched police precinct, he has closed shop again.
“I never imagined there would be so much violence in this neighborhood,” he said, his eyes welling up as his 19-year-old daughter translated his Spanish words into English.
“We understand what’s going on and we get that this is important. They have a right to protest. I wish they’d do it peacefully,” he said.
De La Cruz hung a sign on his boarded-up door -- “Justicia Por Georrge Floyd” -- one of scores of pleas emblazoned on Lake Street’s plywood-lined storefronts. Two doors down, Ingebretsen’s offered another: “One Human Family.”
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Unrest Destroys Minneapolis’s Landmark Street Of Diversity, Lake Street - CBS Minnesota
There’s the smoldering police station torched early Thursday morning by protesters enraged by the death of George Floyd while in custody. There’s the Wells Fargo bank branch a couple of blocks away that mobs stormed through the next night, leaving behind a carpet of shattered glass and strewn paperwork. “Kill Bankers” reads the graffiti now spray-painted on an outside wall.
Go further up Lake Street and there’s more fresh history: the Somali restaurant with the broken windows, the empty hulk of a burned sneaker store, the boarded-up party supply store owned by a Mexican immigrant who had been praying for the coronavirus lockdown to end so he could reopen.
The protests that have roiled Minneapolis night after night didn’t inflame just a single neighborhood: Much of the violence raged up Lake Street, an artery of commerce and culture that cuts across a broad swath of the city.
For residents, for businesspeople, for artists, the Lake Street corridor has long been a symbol of the city’s complex history, a block-by-block study in immigration, economic revitalization and persistent inequality.
On one end is a trendy district of bars and shopping. On the other are quiet neighborhoods atop the Mississippi River bluff. Between the two is a timeline that spans almost five miles marking each wave of arrivals, along with a tangle of languages spoken in each group’s markets, restaurants, churches and community groups.
The Lake Street businesses owned by Suad Hassan’s family are now boarded up, bearing messages like “black owned – solidarity.” Each night, the family has stood guard, successfully begging the mobs to pass them by.
The 35-year-old was born in Somalia, but her family fled the country to escape war when she was a child.
“When I saw the fire two nights ago, it was like a trauma that was triggered again for me,” she said. “I had put that away in my life a long, long time ago … I told my mom ‘This is a war zone.’”
It’s Lake Street’s minority-owned small businesses that may suffer the most from the racial firestorm that hit the city this week. As thousands of people protested a police force with a history of violence against people of color, the collateral damage spread wide — from immigrant-owned restaurants to a center for Native American youth to an affordable housing complex under construction.
“What happened with Mr. Floyd is a horror,” said Eduardo Barrera, the general manager of Mercado Central, a cooperative of largely Latino-owned businesses that helped spark economic revitalization along the street when it opened 20 years ago. The muraled corner building was broken into twice during the unrest, with some of its goods stolen.
“Nothing changes and people feel they’ve lost everything,” Barrera said. “There’s nothing to lose for them anymore. When there’s no justice, no fairness and no equity, they lose hope.”
“But we are hurting ourselves,” he said.
Many speculate that Lake Street was hit so hard because its eastern stretch includes the station associated with the white officer now charged with murdering Floyd. The destruction is particularly painful because Lake Street had become a success story, an achievement people took pride in.
Residents and business owners say they’ve spent the last 20 years working to revive its chain of neighborhoods — many blighted by years of neglect, suburban flight and disinvestment.
Deb Frank moved into the Longfellow neighborhood just off East Lake Street 25 years ago, buying a two-bedroom, 100-year-old home for $40,000. The mail carrier and her neighbors teamed up to rid the area of two brothels by calling in license plates to the police and embarrassing the patrons.
Frank and her husband became used to walking to restaurants and coffee shops. “It was a really big transformation,” she said.
Today, she wonders: Is it all fleeting?
“It took years to get where we were and here we’re back in square one,” she said, noting even the local post office had been damaged enough to disrupt mail service. “No, we’re worse than square one.”
By all accounts, immigrant entrepreneurs have been the engine of Lake Street’s repeated resurgences. The stretch, which runs east-west through the city’s south side, has long been a landing pad for recent arrivals to the city.
Early in the last century, it was Germans like Emil Schatzlein, who opened a saddle shop on West Lake Street in 1907 that still sells cowboy boots today. And the Scandinavians whose imprint is still visible in the nearly 100-year-old Ingebretsen’s Nordic Marketplace, a local institution known for its lefse and herring.
Today, within a couple blocks of Ingebretsen’s, you can buy a bottle of fresh camel milk in an East African grocery and fried tortillas at Taqueria La Poblanita.
Just like many American cities, the 1960s saw a stream of white residents and businesses leave Lake Street for the suburbs. Buildings emptied out. By the time the Sears department store abandoned its towering building in the mid-1990s, much of the corridor was desperate for an economic infusion.
“It reinvented itself as an immigrant gateway,” said Bill Convery, director of research at the Minnesota Historical Society. “The economic blight led to opportunity.”
Somali immigrants fleeing war were among those who soon took advantage of the affordable rents to build businesses. Community organizations reopened the Sears building as the Midtown Global Marketplace, a showcase for food and crafts.
Still, the economic progress did not erase the stubborn poverty, the racism or the striking inequality.
The corridor’s neighborhoods, along with city’s north side and core, know about police tensions all too well. An ACLU study of city arrests from 2012-2014 found black and Native American people more than eight times more likely than white people to be arrested for low-level offenses.
Minneapolis also has wrestled with its growing racial segregation — a division uncomfortably illustrated by driving east on Lake Street, which begins in the overwhelmingly white, quiet and leafy neighborhoods near Uptown before shifting into largely black or mixed neighborhoods.
Businesses already were suffering from the pandemic’s stay-at-home orders when the protests started.
Gregorio De La Cruz, a Mexican immigrant, was just starting to reopen his two East Lake Street businesses — a party supply and candy store, and a commercial cleaning business — when the violence erupted. Less than a mile from the torched police precinct, he has closed shop again.
“I never imagined there would be so much violence in this neighborhood,” he said, his eyes welling up as his 19-year-old daughter translated his Spanish words into English.
“We understand what’s going on and we get that this is important. They have a right to protest. I wish they’d do it peacefully,” he said.
De La Cruz hung a sign on his boarded-up door — “Justicia Por Georrge Floyd” — one of scores of pleas emblazoned on Lake Street’s plywood-lined storefronts. Two doors down, Ingebretsen’s offered another: “One Human Family.”
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UPDATE: Madison protests turn violent, 75 State Street businesses damaged, looted - Channel3000.com - WISC-TV3
MADISON, Wis. — Madison became the latest city to see violence spread through its downtown, as people met Saturday to protest the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man killed in police custody in Minneapolis last week.
Around 75 buildings on State Street were damaged or looted Saturday night, as well as other businesses on both sides of the city, according to the Madison Police Department.
The violence started as an earlier downtown protest ended. Thousands gathered at the Wisconsin State Capitol around noon to advocate for justice for Floyd. These protesters remained peaceful and marched to the Dane County Jail and the former home of Tony Robinson, an unarmed black teen shot and killed by an officer with the Madison Police Department five years ago.
Police said as this crowd began dispersing, a group of 150 people remained in the State Street area and began damaging property.
Members of this group smashed windows of many businesses, including Goodman’s Jewelers and Urban Outfitters. Businesses on both the east and west sides of Madison were also looted, including both East and West Towne Malls.
One MPD squad car was broken into, driven a short distance, then set on fire, police said. Two rifles were also stolen from the vehicle before it was destroyed.
Several other squad cars were also damaged during the protests.
One Madison police officer was injured during the violent protests and other responding officers had rocks, chairs and other objects thrown at them. Police said many were struck by these objects but avoid serious injury due to protective equipment.
Madison police formed a line to push the group back and used tear gas to try and disburse crowds. Our crews on scene said crowds continued to grow Saturday night despite police efforts.
Madison police arrested three people Saturday night, but will use video taken Saturday identify future suspects.
Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway has declared a state of emergency and curfew for the city which went into effect early Sunday morning.
The curfew began at 12:01 a.m. and lasts until 5 a.m. Sunday. Another curfew will begin again at 9:30 p.m. Sunday and last until 5 a.m. Monday.
Video of Floyd’s time in custody has angered people across the country. Violent protests also took place in Minneapolis, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Philadelphia this weekend.
The video shows a former Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, pressing his knee into Floyd’s neck. Floyd can be heard saying “I can’t breathe.”
Chauvin has been arrested on third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter charges. Three other officers with the Minneapolis Police Department were fired. They have not been charged as of Sunday morning.
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Police in riot gear descend on Beale Street after earlier demonstration ended peacefully - Commercial Appeal
About two hours after a demonstration against police brutality ended peacefully on Saturday night, a confrontation between a crowd of people and a team of police officers in riot gear and some on horseback played out on Beale Street.
Police had set up a barricade near the Orpheum theater to separate officers from the crowd. Some people in the crowd crossed the barricade onto the police side. When police horses entered that side of the barricade, one officer appeared to try to steady his horse from hitting a protester. Then other horses backed up behind that one in the small space.
A chaotic few seconds followed: police barricades tumbled to the ground and people fell down. Police moved forward. Glass bottles flew through the air.
At one point later, the crowd chanted "No justice, no peace."
The standoff was a dramatic contrast from a peaceful protest march earlier in the evening that had apparently ended without arrests and which the police had largely let play out on its own, without interference. Most of the crowd from the protest march left around 9 p.m. from the National Civil Rights Museum, a short walk from Beale Street.
But after 11 p.m., a group of people and a large group of police officers and sheriff's deputies became engaged in a standoff and verbal argument near Beale Street. The crowd grew to about 60. Some officers arrived with riot shields.
It's not clear if the people in the crowd had been part of the earlier march. Nor was it clear how the confrontation began.
Two people in the crowd said a person was playing the drums and that officers told him to stop playing, triggering a reaction from the crowd. Other people talked about police breaking up a party. By 11:30 p.m., there were about 35 officers on the scene, including one armed with a long gun.
Whatever the origin of the police response, the situation soon turned back to the issue of police brutality.
One of the main people engaged in a verbal confrontation with police was a man who brought up George Floyd's killing. That man identified himself as Darin Alston.
Others tried to deescalate the argument, saying that they didn't want another incident. Then the police moved back, retreating to the Orpheum Theatre. Then another person in the crowd jumped onto a police car and was encouraged to come down by the rest of the crowd.
Police then brought out barricades and were barricading themselves at the intersection of Beale and Main by the Orpheum. An officer was seen pushing people in the crowd. Soon more officers were arriving on the scene in riot gear, including shields and helmets.
During a lull in the standoff, a woman in the crowd in the confrontation with police named Diasha Graham spoke with a reporter from a Bird scooter. "No justice, no peace," she told a reporter. "No race is safe. We all are dying. We need to unite and make a change. And make a difference, all as one."
The standoff ebbed and flowed. After the horses arrived and the barriers tumbled, the situation appeared to calm down. Warnings to clear the area were played over speakers.
Then about 12:45 a.m., officers were beating the riot shields with batons and chanting "Move!" They began moving forward in a phalanx from the Orpheum down Beale Street. In the process, at least one woman was tackled, someone set off a firework and someone threw a bottle.
Details on any injuries or arrests weren't immediately available early Sunday morning.
Police officers on the scene referred questions to the department's public information officers, who didn't respond immediately to an email inquiry.
Reporters saw at least two people get tackled by officers, the woman and another man. A woman tried to put herself between the officers and the woman who was arrested, but it's unclear if this second woman was also detained.
By 1:15 a.m. the confrontation appeared over and people had cleared the street.
A key leader of the earlier protest, DeVante Hill, commented on Twitter: "Tonight just when I thought things were over and we could successfully say we had a peaceful protest, there were young men and women who staggered around near Beale and Main. MPD definitely (incited) them with riot gear, horses and AR-15s . . . " He said two people were arrested, but this could not immediately be confirmed.
"I really believe we can do this. I truly believe we can do this another way. A crowd of 30 staggering people met with intense force like that is just uneasy for not only me to understand but a group of my other white brothers and sisters present as well," Hill wrote.
Just after 2 a.m., Shelby County Commissioner Tami Sawyer said she and a group of people headed to 201 Poplar to support protesters who had been arrested.
“We weren’t here to protest,” she said. “We were here for bail support.”
She said jail officials told her and the group to leave and come back at 4 a.m. but because it was so close to that time, Sawyer said the group all paid for parking in a private lot and decided to wait there.
She said officers then started to count down and tell the group that they had five minutes to leave the area or “lethal force” would be used to remove them.
She said they had a right to be there so they refused to leave without their friends.
“They arrested people that we know, people that we love,” she said. “They are leaders in our community, peaceful folks.”
Around 3:30 a.m., about 50 people were outside 201 Poplar, waiting on the sidewalk and grassy area in front of the Downtown building.
There was no noticeable law enforcement presence at that time, although Memphis police officers had been there earlier with riot shields, followed by Shelby County sheriff's deputies.
By 4:30 a.m., only about 10 people remained outside 201 Poplar.
Earlier Memphis protest ended peacefully despite some tensions
Earlier Saturday evening, a crowd had outside the National Civil Rights Museum in Downtown Memphis. More than 300 protesters ended a similar protest in that spot Friday night.
On Saturday, the crowd peaked near 500, making stops at Clayborn Temple and the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Reflection Park and kneeling for several minutes at the intersection of Beale Street and Second Avenue and on Poplar Avenue in view of the Hernando DeSoto Bridge.
At the Civil Rights Museum, protest leaders attempted to start the rally the same way Friday started — by passing the megaphone from person to person.
A black man spoke first, followed by a white woman. But as the megaphone was passed to a Puerto Rican transgender man, another protester, Rob Brown, took over, saying that black people needed to be at the center of the movement and instructed white attendees to stand back and allow more black attendees to speak first.
Brown is black and has attended many protests in the past, including Friday's.
The response was mixed. While one person handed him a second megaphone so he could speak louder, others yelled their opposition.
Karen Spencer McGee, a black woman, was among several people who loudly disagreed, saying, “It’s gonna take all of us, black, white, gold, yellow!”
Shortly after that disagreement over tactics, the crowd marched to Clayborn Temple, where a list of demands was read. The demands included releasing all protesters from jail and dropping all charges, activist involvement in creating a new curriculum and budget for Shelby County Schools and a citizen veto power for the Shelby County budget.
Shelby County Commissioner Mickell Lowery was among the hundreds marching up South Second. He said his daughter brought him out Saturday night.
“I’m here for her. I’m here for George Floyd," Lowery said. “There are people at home watching, being inspired and hopefully waking up in the morning doing something differently."
While walking in the protest around 8:20 p.m., Theryn Bond, the longtime Memphis activist who read the demands earlier, said: “I’m tired, hot, but it’s important to apply pressure until the needs of community are met."
She said leaders need to hear from those in the community, the ones with high MLGW bills or who have been furloughed from their jobs, for example.
“We need to begin to address the symptoms and the problem," Bond said.
She advocated for a better response from Mayor Jim Strickland.
When the crowd of protesters approached Front Street and Poplar Avenue, multiple squad cars were there to meet them. The entrance to a parking garage that leads to Mud Island was blocked, and as the crowd got closer, Tennessee Highway Patrol vehicles filled any space not filled.
Later, at about 8:45 p.m., the crowd briefly splintered into two with one group of 150 shouting “bridge” and heading down Union Avenue toward the Mississippi River before turning to rejoin the larger group moments later on Main Street.
As that group walked down Front, Phalisha Jackson walked near the back.
“It shouldn’t take the outrage of the public to arrest a police officer,” Jackson said of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was charged with third-degree murder in the death of Floyd.
By 9 pm., the group had completed a fast-paced walk through Downtown and arrived back at the Lorraine Motel.
Memphis pastor and activist DeVante Hill said the protesters would use their ability to protest with order and decency. He said tearing up businesses will make them look bad.
“With this type of momentum, we can do anything," Hill said.
Just after 9 p.m. hundreds of protesters went back to their cars and walked north on Mulberry Street.
David Schuermann, 69, stood on his porch and applauded. A pair of protesters handed him a cardboard sign that had “Black Lives Matter” written in marker.
“I think they’re doing a good job being peaceful,” said Schuermann of the protesters. He said he thought it stayed that way because the police presence didn’t antagonize the crowd.
“The police have been pretty good. I think they’ve been well behaved, and the protesters have been well behaved,“ Schuermann said.
He saw similarities in the death of Floyd and others at hands of police to that of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., 100 yards away, 52 years earlier.
“I was a teenager when Martin Luther King Jr. was killed... It’s the same damn thing. It keeps happening,” Schuermann said. “We need to solve the problem, which is system racism.”
The evening march was one of two demonstrations on Saturday. Earlier in the day, a group of about two dozen protesters met outside the Mt. Moriah police station, according to a video of the event posted on Facebook.
In the video, the protest organizer said the group was there to stop police brutality.
A timeline of protests in Memphis
The nightly rallies began with a silent demonstration Wednesday intended to protest the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery but turned into separate verbal confrontations with Memphis police and two counter-protesters.
Wednesday: 'Stop killing black people': Demonstration closes Union Avenue as protesters face off with counter-protesters, MPD
On Thursday evening, no counter-protesters appeared and the police presence was less pronounced.
Thursday: Protesters gather against police brutality for a second night in Memphis
By Friday morning, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland called for an investigation of police actions during the protest on Union Avenue.
Friday: Mayor Strickland calls for investigation of police actions during Memphis protest
The statement was an apparent reference to a video that showed a police officer with a riot shield knocking down a woman. The protest that began Wednesday night extended until after 1 a.m. once MPD brought out barricades between protesters and its officer who were silently standing dressed in riot gear.
Thursday: County, state officials criticize Memphis Police Department, administration's response to protest
Friday: Memphis protesters take to Downtown streets for third night of demonstrations
By Friday evening, a demonstration began at FedExForum, winding through downtown, stopping at City Hall and ending at the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel.
Memphis pastor and activist DeVante Hill shared his megaphone, giving anyone who wanted to a chance to address the crowd.
Some people shared stories about their own interactions with police. One woman sang to the crowd. One man simply asked the crowd to say out loud that Black Lives Matter.
Around 8:15, they walked to Beale Street and B.B. King Boulevard and blocked the intersection for nine minutes, one for each minute Floyd spent repeatedly saying he couldn't breathe before his death.
The demonstration ended without incident outside the room where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. The crowd sat on the ground covering most of the paved walkway leading to the museum's doors and listened to each other share.
"This is not a political movement," Hill said. "This is a people movement."
Memphis protests among week of demonstrations nationwide
The Memphis protests were part of a series of demonstrations in cities across the county sparked by Floyd's death in Minneapolis.
He died Monday after a Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into Floyd's neck for several minutes after Floyd was restrained. The police department said they responded to a "forgery in progress," found a suspect and ordered the suspect to get out of his vehicle.
The four officers involved in the incident have been fired. Minneapolis police identified the officers Wednesday as Derek Chauvin — the officer who knelt on Floyd's neck — Thomas Lane, Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng.
After several nights of protests, Chauvin was arrested Friday.
More: Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin arrested in George Floyd's death: Updates
Minneapolis, Louisville, Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, New York, Columbus, among other cities, have seen crowds convene, chanting "I can't breathe" and "No justice, no peace."
More: George Floyd protests erupt across nation: Police clear streets after fires in Minneapolis; violence in Columbus, Louisville
In Minneapolis, where Floyd was killed, a police precinct was set on fire late Thursday.
Protesters across the county have been met by police in riot gear with pepper spray, rubber bullets and gas canisters.
USA Today reporters contributed to this report.
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Several Businesses On Fire Along Walnut Street In Center City Following Violent George Floyd Protests - CBS Philly
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Several businesses are on fire along Walnut Street in Center City after protests over George Floyd’s death turned violent on Saturday. Chopper 3 was over the scene where smoke could be seen billowing from a store on the 1700 block of Walnut Street, just steps away from Philadelphia’s historic Rittenhouse Square.
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Sources tell Eyewitness News the fire has spread to a handful of businesses and crews have all hands on deck as they work to extinguish the fire. Among the buildings on fire is a bank.
The fire is at three alarms. More than 100 firefighters are battling the blaze.
3rd Alarm at 1700 Walnut St. pic.twitter.com/HgTFCW5B99
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It remains unclear how the fire started or if anyone was injured.
There are rows of commercial businesses along this stretch of Center City West.
Massive looting also took place just blocks away along Walnut and Chestnut Streets in Center City, including at Nordstrom Rack, Boyds and Sephora.
Earlier in the evening, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said at least four police vehicles were set on fire, including a Pennsylvania State Police cruiser.
A mandatory curfew went into effect at 8 p.m. and lasts until 6 a.m. Sunday. The curfew will go back into effect Sunday from 8 p.m. until 6 a.m. Monday. During that time, people may leave their homes only to go to work at essential businesses or to seek medical attention or police assistance, Major Jim Kenney said.
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Roving Gangs Of Looters Ransack Emeryville Stores Along Bay Street - CBS San Francisco
EMERYVILLE (CBS SF) — Looters targeted several Emeryville retail establishments along Bay Street Saturday evening, storming into H&M, Best Buy, Lane Bryant, BevMo!, Uniqlo and GameStop stores and racing out with merchandise.
The first signs of looting surfaced shortly after 8:15 p.m. when Chopper 5 captured footage of looters hitting a Best Buy store. At one point, a Best Buy van outside that store was lit on fire.
Small groups were strolling through the retail district, choosing targets, smashing windows and then racing inside to rip off merchandise. Helicopter video showed looters with shopping carts full of merchandise and loading the stolen items into vehicles.
Boxes of alcohol were being carried out of BevMo! Looters were also emptying the Sprint store of cell phones and rushing out of Jos A Bank store with arm fulls of clothing. Most of the stores have been shutdown since mid-March because of the COVID-19 shelter in place.
A Chase Bank branch was also vandalized and a nearby Ross Store was also being targeted with looters exiting laden with merchandise. Looters were also seen running out of the Ashley Furniture store carrying large big screen TVs.
Emeryville police chief Jennifer G. Tejada told KPIX 5 that “several hundred young people are coming in to loot stores…I believe it has nothing to do with the community grief over the killing of George Floyd.”
Police had ringed the Bay Street Shopping Center stores nearby to keep the looters out, but they were not confronting those who were already in the process of looting the other stores.
The parking lot at the Best Buy store was littered with boxes and packing materials as some of the looters were unable to fit the large televisions they were stealing into their vehicles without taking them out of the boxes.
Despite an increased police presence that stopped the looting from the Best Buy store, there were still looters taking merchandise from a variety of businesses as of about 11:20 p.m. When officers converged on one area to stop the criminal activity, looters were simply running away and focusing their attention on a different set of shops.
There were no demonstrations nearby protesting the in-custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on Saturday evening.
On Friday night, protests in San Jose and Oakland reeled out of control with dozens of people arrested, stores looted, fires set and police officers injured.
Tejada had issued a statement Saturday asking for calm in her community.
“The protests in Oakland last night evolved into acts of violence and vandalism,” she said. “We are working with our neighboring agencies to ensure we are ready to respond and protect Emeryville and maintain the safety of our community members. We ask for your help in keeping everyone safe during these challenging times. Please continue to abide by the ‘Shelter in Place’ order so that you are protected from any potentially harmful activity that may occur this weekend.”
“Rest assured, we as sworn officers, are granted the authority to protect our community. We understand that we must do so with a blend of humanity, empathy, and fairness to maintain our public’s trust.”
Target company officials announced they were shutting down all their Bay Area stores for as much as 14 days because the outbreak of violence related to George Floyd demonstrations. Included in that shutdown was the massive Emeryville store.
On Friday night, a Target store was looted in downtown Oakland. The Target store in Emeryville had its windows boarded up earlier in the day.
“We are heartbroken by the death of George Floyd and the pain it is causing communities across the country,” the company said in a release. “At this time, we have made the decision to close a number of our stores. We anticipate most stores will be closed temporarily.”
Officials indicated the closings could last for at least 14 days.
“Additionally, team members impacted by store closures will be paid for up to 14 days of scheduled hours during store closures, including COVID-19 premium pay,” the release said. “They will also be able to work at other nearby Target locations.”
The Bay Area stores impacted include Alameda, Bayfair, Central San Francisco, Central Berkeley, San Jose College Park, Colma, East Palo Alto, Fashion Island Foster City, Mountain View, North Hayward, Oakland, Pinole, Emeryville, Redwood City, Richmond, Serramonte, San Francisco Folsom St., San Francisco 13th St., South San Francisco, Tanforan, University Ave. Berkeley and West Lake Daly City.
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Protesters Take To Downtown Streets In Wake Of George Floyd Death In Minneapolis; Officers Hurt Near Trump Tower - CBS Chicago
There were reports that up to three officers were injured at the scene of a protest near Trump Tower. The severity of their injuries was not immediately learned.
The protests were all in response to the death of George Floyd, the handcuffed man who begged for air as a Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck.
Not all the protests were violent, but some of the crowds have been massive as the protests have wound through the downtown area.
At Wacker Drive and Wabash Avenue, video posted to Twitter showed protesters rocking a Chicago Police wagon.
Protesters almost topple CPD wagon on Wacker and Wabash pic.twitter.com/7AWkHbulPy
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Social video also appeared to show protesters beating a few Chicago Police officers, before other protesters jumped in to form a circle around them to protect them.
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Social video appears to show protesters beating a few Chicago Police officers — before other protesters jump in to form a circle around them to protect them@cbschicago #GeorgeFloyd https://t.co/fEeShOSzhD
— Marissa Parra (@MarParNews) May 30, 2020
As CBS 2’s Jermont Terry reported, people were honking horns at State and Madison streets downtown – where traffic could not get through. Chicago Police officers in blue helmets and riot gear were standing guard at Madison Street preventing demonstrators from heading north.
Around 4:45 p.m., the crowd tried to push through. Officers did not budge, and moved about a foot closer – at which point demonstrators ran.
Earlier, demonstrators were seen forming a human chain at Jackson Boulevard and Dearborn Street alongside federal plaza.
One officer drove through the human chain as a woman holding a sign stood in front of an officer’s vehicle. But we heard another officer come up and tell the officer to stop moving forward as he banged on the fellow officer’s vehicle.
BREAKING NEWS. DEMONSTRATORS TAKE OVER DOWNTOWN STREETS.@Chicago_Police responding. @cbschicago pic.twitter.com/OUNXUpjcNx
— Jermont Terry (@JermontTerry) May 30, 2020
A large crowd was seen congregating at Trump Tower, and a group was also seen chanting and holding signs at Dearborn and Washington streets in front of the CBS 2 Broadcast Center. A protester was seen clashing with police outside the Broadcast Center at 22 W. Washington St.
Nearby outside the George W. Dunne Cook County Office Building at 69 W. Washington St., protesters burned an American flag.
Lake Shore Drive was closed at Balbo Drive and at Chicago Avenue, the Eisenhower Expressway was closed the Ida B. Wells Drive exit, and the Ontario and Ohio Street feeder ramps to the Kennedy Expressway were all closed due to the protests.
Some Chicago Police squad cars were seen tagged with profane language, and protesters were seen getting on top of squad cars and lamp posts. One squad car on State Street was left with a flat rear tire.
Crowd heading back to Federal Plaza #GeorgeFloydprotest @cbschicago pic.twitter.com/dX7bYosbf3
— Jeremy Ross (@JeremyAdamRoss) May 30, 2020
Meanwhile, the photojournalist who was accompanying CBS 2’s Ross Saturday afternoon was purposely pushed by a protester near Federal Plaza. He is fine, and the protester ran off.
Overall, what Ross and his crew saw were peaceful demonstrations – but that was not the case every time.
Around 3:10 p.m., a skirmish erupted after people started throwing water bottles at police around Adams and State streets. There was at least one other skirmish with Chicago Police nearby.
It was unclear Saturday afternoon whether there were arrests in either of those incidents.
The rally at Federal Plaza began around 2 p.m., with hundreds in attendance. After about 30 minutes, those in attendance began marching around the Loop.
Police blocked off traffic to ensure their safety.
A tagger spray painted a bus shelter nearby, and was reportedly taken into custody.
Federal Plaza in Chicago #protests #GeorgeFloydProtests @cbschicago pic.twitter.com/J3urGw0qDW
— Jeremy Ross (@JeremyAdamRoss) May 30, 2020
Protesters also lined up dumpsters to block Monroe Street near State Street, CBS 2’s Marissa Parra reported.
Protesters have lined up garbage dumpsters to block Monroe St in downtown Chicago right off State Street@cbschicago #GeorgeFloyd pic.twitter.com/ZmukR6JbHz
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One protester told us why she thought it was so critical to be part of the protest.
“I’m a black woman. My dad is black, my brothers are black, my husband is black, my sons are black,” said Cindy Scott. “They could be out here. They could be on the ground. I could be burying them. That’s why I’m out here. That’s why this is important to me.”
Mayor Lori Lightfoot urged protesters to remain peaceful.
“I support the expression of your First Amendment rights, but I’m urging, I’m urging, on behalf of every resident in every neighborhood, that that expression be done peacefully,” the mayor said.
We also asked a protester whether there was a possibility for violence Saturday evening. She said she doubted such would be the case.
The Illinois National Guard said it Saturday that is was monitoring events in Chicago. Earlier Saturday afternoon, the Guard’s Lt. Bradford Leighton said at this time, there has been no activation of the Guard in response to the protests, nor a standby or other actions – just monitoring.
For complete coverage of the situation in Minneapolis visit CBSMinnesota.com and stream CBSN Minnesota.
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City begins $9.6 million Summit Street project - Toledo Blade
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Ann Arbor may close downtown streets to expand patio areas for bars, restaurants - MLive.com
ANN ARBOR, MI — As the coronavirus pandemic continues, several downtown Ann Arbor streets may shut down to automobile traffic on weekends starting in mid-June.
City leaders say that would give pedestrians and cyclists more room to get around safely while practicing physical distancing as the economy reopens, and allow more space for businesses whose seating or sales capacities are restricted by state orders to safely operate.
Restaurants and bars could expand patio seating areas into the closed streets on weekends and retail businesses could use closed street areas for weekend sales, according to a proposal heading to City Council.
Council Members Jane Lumm, I-2nd Ward, and Ali Ramlawi, D-5th Ward, and Mayor Christopher Taylor are sponsoring the proposal, which is up for a vote Monday night, June 1.
“Many businesses are on their death bed and hopefully this will help save a few from extinction,” said Ramlawi, owner of the Jerusalem Garden restaurant on Liberty Street.
City officials have been working with leaders of the Main Street, Kerrytown, State Street and South University Avenue business associations and the Downtown Development Authority to come up with the proposal, Ramlawi said.
“It’s not a perfect plan in the sense that all the details aren’t filled in,” he said. “We kind of just want to give these associations the umbrella to work under and then they can program their unique needs under that umbrella.”
The proposal calls for partial or full closure of designated streets and any public parking lots downtown beginning as early as June 13, the day after the governor’s shutdown orders are scheduled to lift. The street closures would start at 2 p.m on Fridays and last until 8 p.m. on Sundays.
A map included with the proposal shows potential closures on Main, Washington, Liberty, Maynard, State, Detroit and Church streets, as well as South U and Forest Avenue.
A map included with Ann Arbor's Healthy Streets proposal shows potential downtown street closures on Main, Washington, Liberty, Maynard, State, Detroit and Church streets, as well as South University and Forest avenues.City of Ann Arbor
The street closures would continue each weekend until the number of people allowed to gather in bars, restaurants and retail stores is no longer restricted for public health and safety reasons related to the COVID-19 crisis, or they could end on another date at the city administrator’s discretion, according to the proposal.
In addition to the weekend closures, the proposal calls for full closure of Maynard Street at all hours starting June 13 at the request of the State Street District.
The DDA is providing a grant of up to $50,000 to the four downtown associations to cover the cost of installing, removing and renting barricades for the street closures, Assistant City Administrator John Fournier told council in a memo.
The DDA will not be charging the associations or businesses for bagging on-street parking meters and will keep in place 143 on-street spaces for free curbside pickup of takeout orders and deliveries, Fournier said.
The set of strategies being put forward, Fournier said, outline how downtown Ann Arbor streets, sidewalks and public parking lots can be used during the pandemic to support economic recovery and build a more resilient community.
COVID-19 related deaths reach 100 in Washtenaw County
In addition to the changes downtown, city leaders are taking suggestions for closing or modifying other streets.
The city’s Healthy Streets website allows anyone to drop a pin on a map and offer suggestions.
“Tell the city of Ann Arbor where you’d like to see city streets closed to through traffic or street or lane closures to replace driving space with walking, biking and other idea or uses,” the website states.
“Your input, alongside other factors such as safety, connectivity, equity, feasibility, cost, and street jurisdiction or ownership, will be considered by staff and City Council in the decision-making process for which driving lanes should be modified.”
Anyone who wants to provide feedback and doesn't have internet access can call the city at 734-794-6410.
“The Healthy Streets effort is consistent with the nationwide trend of providing ample space for the community to get outside, safely exercise and get where they need to go,” the city stated in an email Friday, May 29.
Generally, changes will be temporary to accommodate times of physical distancing, but longer-term reconfigurations may be considered depending on transportation demand and community support, according to the city.
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Council approved a resolution May 4 to promote safe distancing outdoors, directing staff to research best practices, gather input and consider street reconfigurations.
“Due to the coronavirus pandemic, at least 6-foot social distancing is necessary,” the council resolution stated, adding sidewalks, paths and the public right-of-way should provide opportunities for safe social distancing for all users.
While staff has authorization to test measures on neighborhood streets, council is requiring staff to seek council’s OK before implementing reconfigurations on non-residential streets.
The map of downtown street closures included with the proposal going to council Monday night shows a possible range of closures, what could happen at most, Ramlawi said, adding actual closures downtown won’t be as expansive.
He said he has no plans to create an on-street seating area in front of his downtown restaurant — he just wants the two curbside takeout pickup spots there to remain.
The free parking for carryout orders and deliveries are among the few lifelines downtown businesses have had amid the pandemic, Ramlawi said.
Ramlawi said he doesn’t expect business to be hopping downtown once the shutdown ends. There’s still a lot of trepidation among both consumers and employees about returning to any type of normalcy, he said.
“But I think things are going to be in place for organizations to begin to reconfigure themselves and adapt to the new environment,” he said, expressing hopes that people will become more comfortable after July 4.
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