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PLEASANTON, CA — As peaceful protests and looting continue across the Bay Area in the wake of George Floyd's death, businesses in Pleasanton boarded up their windows.

Pleasanton has had its own concerns about potential looters, like many other cities in the Bay Area and Tri-Valley. Police have closed roads to Stoneridge Mall overnight amid rumors that it could be a target.

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Downtown businesses have taken their own precautions. Pleasanton took the opportunity to encourage political engagement and spread positivity amid troubling times.

Messages such as, "Hate solves nothing", "BLM [Black Lives Matter] all for all," and "We stand with you" were scrawled in bright colors across sheets of plywood obscuring windows. One board even called for people to text "Floyd" to 55156, which sends a link to a Change of Color petitionthat says all four officers at the scene of Floyd's death should be charged with murder.

Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, died after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, a 44-year-old white man, knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes. Chauvin pinned Floyd down after arresting him following a call reporting his suspected use of a counterfeit bill at a store. Floyd said he could not breathe during the encounter and had no pulse when he was taken into an ambulance.

The four Minneapolis police department officers at the scene were fired and former officer Chauvin has been charged with third-degree murder.