Aftermath

 Like many cities across the United States, Indianapolis was the scene of demonstrations last May and June, protesting the killing of George Floyd by a policeman in Minneapolis. The demonstrators caught most of the grief for the damage done by the rioters, vandals, and thieves who came in their footsteps. The rioters seemed to be organized, shattering windows, breaking into businesses, setting fires, and stealing merchandise from the closed up restaurants, drug stores, and liquor stores, then in some instances, blending into the crowd of demonstrators. As a result, the police took in everybody, then spent the weekend just trying to sort the demonstrators from the trouble-makers. At least one restaurant has closed permanently due to the vandalism, theft, and arson. The same with the drug store. In a town that relies in great part on convention and tourism to support its people, such losses weigh heavily on an already burdened economy. 

In all the years I've lived in Indy, I have never known the town to seem so abandoned; with the possible exception of some of the bail bondsmen (coincidence?) all of the windows in the downtown area had been boarded up due to damage. It took weeks for the glaziers to repair them and some remain covered in plywood. I took these pictures as repairs were being made last July. Adhesive had been spread onto the windows, with five-eighths plywood or OSB then stuck to the window. Obviously, it worked; the glue did not want to give up its assignment.