‘We lost everything in 10 minutes’: Santa Monica merchants survey what’s left after looting
Hundreds of volunteers help clean-up in Santa Monica after looting
Gilbert Haro and sons Richard, 8, and James, 6, walk 4th Street in Santa Monica on Monday morning looking to help clean up after looters destroyed stores on Sunday. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
Jack Sapar, owner of Fabric Planet in Venice, walks out of his business with a customer. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
A National Guard soldier at the Santa Monica Pier. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
A woman walks along Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
People clean up on 4th Street in Santa Monica on Monday. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
Kristian Vales, owner of a restaurant, spray-paints a message to protesters along Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
The National Guard in Santa Monica. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
Volunteers help clean up graffiti in Santa Monica. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Cleaning up in Santa Monica. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
Members of the California National Guard make their presence known along 4th Street in Santa Monica. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Jesus Torres, 28, and his sister Nayla, 24, clean broken glass on 4th Street in Santa Monica on Monday. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
Al Seib was a photographer and videographer for the Los Angeles Times from 1984 to 2022. His photos have won numerous awards from national and international photographer associations. Seib’s work has helped win four Pulitzer Prizes for breaking news reporting awarded to The Times’ staff: the Los Angeles riots in 1993, the Northridge earthquake in 1995, the Southern California wildfires in 2004 and the San Bernardino shootings in 2016.
Genaro Molina is an award-winning staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times. He has worked in journalism for more than 35 years starting at the San Francisco Chronicle. Molina has photographed the life and death of Pope John Paul II, the tragedy of AIDS in Africa, the impact of Hurricane Katrina, and Cuba after Castro. His work has appeared in nine books and his photographs have been exhibited extensively including at the Smithsonian Institute and the Annenberg Space for Photography.
