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Some Uptown Businesses Clean Up After A Night Of Violence

WFAE | By Michael Tomsic,

Michael Tomsic

Published September 22, 2016 at 5:46 PM EDT

Some uptown businesses are cleaning up Thursday afternoon. That’s after rioters smashed windows and threw trash cans during the second night of anger over the fatal police shooting of an African-American man.

There’s a different kind of construction going on in Charlotte on Thursday. Workers sawed plywood into sections that’ll cover broken windows at Kanvas, a lounge at 6th and Davidson. They used a nail gun to bolt them on.

“We’re just basically repairing all the broken windows, all the door panes,” said Damian Vega of the building’s property management company. “There’s just a lot of broken glass that needs to be covered up and protected from hopefully not happening again.”

For now, boarding up is the best they can do in case protests turn violent again Thursday night.

Clean up at Kanvas, a lounge at 6th and Davidson.

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Michael Tomsic

Michael Tomsic became a full-time reporter for WFAE in August 2012. Before that, he reported for the station as a freelancer and intern while he finished his senior year at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Heââ

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Michael Tomsic covers health care, voting rights, NASCAR, peach-shaped water towers and everything in between. He drivesWFAE'shealth care coverage through a partnership with NPR and Kaiser Health News. He became a full-time reporter forWFAEin August 2012. Before that, he reported for the station as a freelancer and intern while he finished his senior year at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He interned with Weekends on All Things Considered in Washington, D.C., where he contributed to the show’s cover stories, produced interviews withNasand BranfordMarsalis, and reported a story about a surge of college graduates joining the military. AtUNC, he was the managing editor of the student radio newscast, Carolina Connection. He got his start in public radio as an intern withWHQRin Wilmington, N.C., where he grew up.