Fearful of riots and looting, many stores are preemptively closing just days after beginning to reopen in LA.
As thousands of demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd by a Minnesota police officer moved westward in Los Angeles, luxury retail started to board up in fear of riots and looting.
On Rodeo, the likes of Gucci, Prada, Dior, Rolex, and Louis Vuitton were being hurriedly boarded up by workmen as of midday on Saturday. A number of the stores had slowly started to reopen since Wednesday, allowing shoppers inside and refreshing merchandise displays. On Saturday, the same stores were again locked and emptied of all merchandise as police stood at traffic barricades.
As the protestors moved apace from further inside L.A., mainly near the Grove shopping center Beverly Hills police could be seen activating drones headed in the direction of the oncoming crowd. As the thousands of protestors began to stream onto Elm St. in Beverly hills, still heading west, they chanted “No justice, no peace,” “Black lives matter” and “Prosecute killer cops” as onlookers cheered, filmed with their phones and honked their car horns in support.
As for the Beverly Center, The Webster, which faces the street, had been boarded up Saturday afternoon. By evening there was graffiti covering the pink plywood the store had used. At the Gucci store on Rodeo, by 6 p.m. its blue plywood had been tagged with “Eat the rich” and then broken in some spots, according to local news reports. At The Grove shopping center, graffiti of “Black lives matter” was visible by evening. Rumors of vandalism in other shopping areas of L.A., like on Melrose Ave.
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