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Teen worked ALONE to clean Buffalo streets after riots
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Date: June 12, 2020 11:55AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/06/12/teen-worked-alone-clean-buffalo-streets-after-unrest-people-offered-him-car-college-tuition/
Antonio Gwynn Jr., 18, marched for hours in downtown Buffalo to protest the killing of George Floyd. Tired, he went home to catch some sleep, then watch videos of the nationwide protests on YouTube.
Gwynn, a high school senior, was shocked the next day, May 30, to see his hometown’s peaceful streets had turned violent after he left, with a confrontation between protesters and U.S. marshals in front of the federal courthouse, windows smashed at downtown businesses, and protesters reporting that they had been hit by police rubber bullets.
“I was sad to watch all of that. There was a huge mess downtown,” said Gwynn. “I thought, ‘I should go out there and clean it all up.’"
Gwynn had rented a small U-Haul truck several days earlier to move some of his belongings into a house he had just rented from his aunt. At 2 a.m. on June 1, he threw a broom, a dustpan and two large boxes of garbage bags into the back of the truck and headed to Bailey Avenue, where much of the damage had happened.
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Antonio Gwynn Jr., 18, marched for hours in downtown Buffalo to protest the killing of George Floyd. Tired, he went home to catch some sleep, then watch videos of the nationwide protests on YouTube.
Gwynn, a high school senior, was shocked the next day, May 30, to see his hometown’s peaceful streets had turned violent after he left, with a confrontation between protesters and U.S. marshals in front of the federal courthouse, windows smashed at downtown businesses, and protesters reporting that they had been hit by police rubber bullets.
“I was sad to watch all of that. There was a huge mess downtown,” said Gwynn. “I thought, ‘I should go out there and clean it all up.’"
Gwynn had rented a small U-Haul truck several days earlier to move some of his belongings into a house he had just rented from his aunt. At 2 a.m. on June 1, he threw a broom, a dustpan and two large boxes of garbage bags into the back of the truck and headed to Bailey Avenue, where much of the damage had happened.
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