Live George Floyd Protests and News Updates

Residents in cities across the United States woke on Sunday to streets littered with debris, shattered storefronts and burned-out shells of police cars on empty roads strewn with broken glass.

The story of the previous night’s chaos in cities from Seattle to Atlanta was also told in graffiti left scrawled on buildings and vehicles.

Protesters tagged “Black Lives Matter” on storefronts in Chicago. “Kill Cops” was the violent message spray-painted on several buildings in Oakland. And in Salt Lake City, “Blue Lives Murder” was written on the walls of the State Capitol.

Even St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan was tagged.

The smell of smoke lingered in the air as firefighters in Philadelphia and other cities battled the last lingering flames on scorched streets. And all around, face masks littered the ground, a reminder that the coronavirus remains a looming threat.

Officials said it was too soon to tally the damages from the violence nationally, but it is likely to run into the millions of dollars. More than 250 businesses had been damaged as of Saturday evening in Minneapolis alone, according to The Star Tribune.

In Nashville, Ed Smith looked over his shoe store after it had been ransacked, his hand injured by broken glass.

“I just don’t understand,” he told WKRN television.

Reporting was contributed by Mike Baker, Peter Baker, Katie Benner, Alan Blinder, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Chris Cameron, Johnny Diaz, Caitlin Dickerson, Nicholas Fandos, Tess Felder, Ben Fenwick, Russell Goldman, Rebecca Halleck, Steve Lohr, Patricia Mazzei, Christopher Mele, David Montgomery, Elian Peltier, Roni Caryn Rabin, Simon Romero, Marc Santora, Mihir Zaveri and Karen Zraick.