↑ 10.0 10.1 Apple Stores smashed and looted amid George Floyd protests by Malcolm Owen, AppleInsider.↑ Here are the 42 US Apple Stores open today.↑ Apple Stores in Minneapolis and Portland were hit by Rioters Overnight by Jack Purcher, Patently Apple.↑ Bordeaux Apple store robbed and vandalized in French riots, 9to5Mac.↑ Apple Store looted by French ‘yellow vest’ protesters, PhoneWeek UK.↑ Found working iPhone 8 Plus!! Apple Store dumpster diving!!! by Wauconda Broke Boy,.↑ 17 people busted in $1 million Apple store robbery ring, California officials say by Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle.↑ 1.0 1.1 Apple Stores smashed and looted amid George Floyd protests by Malcolm Owen, AppleInsider.Apple Providence Place - Providence, Rhode Island (reopened June 24, 2020).Apple Main Place - Naperville, Illinois (reopened June 24, 2020).Apple Bellevue Square - Bellevue, Washington (reopened June 17, 2020).Apple Union Square - San Francisco, California (reopened June 8, 2020).Apple City Creek Center - Salt Lake City, Utah (reopened June 9, 2020).Apple King Street - Charleston, South Carolina.Apple Walnut Street - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (reopened July 8, 2020).Apple Downtown Brooklyn - Brooklyn, New York (reopened June 17, 2020).Johns Town Center - Jacksonville, Florida (reopened reopened June 8, 2020) Apple Carnegie Library - Washington, D.C.Apple The Grove - Los Angeles, California (reopened June 22, 2020).Apple Century City - Los Angeles, California (reopened June 22, 2020).Apple Scottsdale Fashion Square - Scottsdale, Arizona (reopened September 9, 2020).Apple Uptown - Minneapolis, Minnesota (closed permanently).Some boarded-up stores were decorated with murals and became gathering places for Black Lives Matter marches. Damaged stores were closed for repairs, and high-risk locations were pre-emptively boarded up. 56 were closed due to the conditions related to the protests while others remained closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On May 31, only 42 of 271 locations in the United States remained open out of concern for customer and employee safety. Melrose Mac, an Apple Authorized Reseller and Premier Partner based in Hollywood, was looted and burned. In late May 2020, Apple stores in the United States were targeted for vandalism and/or looted during protests over the death of George Floyd. George Floyd protests Īpple Pioneer Place in Portland, Oregon has been decorated with a mural of George Floyd. By December 9, Apple stores in Paris on the Champs-Élysées and next to the Théâtre National de l'Opéra were boarded up and fortified after being damaged during ensuing riots. On December 8, 2018, looters broke into the Apple Store on rue Sainte-Catherine in Bordeaux, France during the Yellow vest protests across France. Gilets jaunes le pillage de l'Apple store de Bordeaux However, Apple's security discourages this practice as it may be hazardous. Though in a legal gray area, scavengers are known to go " dumpster diving" around Apple stores to recover discarded merchandise in the hopes of finding a salvageable iPhone, especially when a store location is in the process of relocating. In 2018, seventeen suspects in California were arrested and charged with being part of a robbery ring to steal merchandise from Apple stores. ![]() However, because Apple assigns unique serial numbers (such as IMEI) to its devices, stolen items will often be blacklisted and " bricked". Typical lootings are often carried out through smash and grab techniques by small parties. The Longview fire is burning in timber on Weyerhaeuser property, releasing heavy smoke since Tuesday evening.īut even with a fire burning close by, Longview had healthier air than the Portland metro area, because winds pushed that smoke into Oregon.The Apple Store in Berkeley, California is boarded up after a smash & grab robbery in 2014. Portland’s air quality went from unhealthy to moderate over the course of Wednesday, mostly due to smoke from an industrial fire in Longview, Washington. No one was injured by the fire, and the agency is investigating its cause.Īlthough the Kmart building fire released a towering column of smoke, it had only minor impact on the area’s air quality. The shelter-in-place recommendation was lifted once the smoke column dissipated later in the day. Portland Fire & Rescue used an automated phone alert system to contact 50,000 phone numbers in the area, asking residents to shelter in place and close their windows to keep toxic smoke out of their homes. There were also few hydrants available to firefighters. The property owners had reinforced the area around the building with an 8-foot-high chain link fence and concrete barriers. But firefighters initially struggled to get into the 120,000-square-foot building, which had been “vacant for an extended period,” according to the agency.
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