As a Sunday meal with a friend ended at the Bullring Cafe Rouge, I noticed workmen taking sheets of plywood out of a nearby, entirely glazed storefront. We walked to the store and asked if they were putting up the boards every night. They were.
There hadn't been any riot activity for four nights but many shops kept their unbroken windows boarded. In fact, though most returned their storefronts to normal the Monday after the riots, some businesses yet remain wary -- as I write this, it's been about two and a half weeks since the chaos ended but at least a handful of Birmingham's shops are still hidden under a plywood armor.
As a Sunday meal with a friend ended at the Bullring Cafe Rouge, I noticed workmen taking sheets of plywood out of a nearby, entirely glazed storefront. We walked to the store and asked if they were putting up the boards every night. They were.
There hadn't been any riot activity for four nights but many shops kept their unbroken windows boarded. In fact, though most returned their storefronts to normal the Monday after the riots, some businesses yet remain wary -- as I write this, it's been about two and a half weeks since the chaos ended but at least a handful of Birmingham's shops are still hidden under a plywood armor.
