“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.”

A Minneapolis school asked for groceries to help the families in looted communities. They received thousands.

By Christopher Dawson, CNN

Updated 5:53 PM ET, Mon June 1, 2020



Donated groceries fill the parking lot of Sanford Middle School in Minneapolis.

(CNN) -- A food drive at a middle school in Minneapolis was overwhelmed by the amount of donated groceries and supplies.

"Donations covered every inch of ground of our parking lot, the grass, everywhere," Sanford Middle School Principal Amy Nelson told CNN of Sunday's drive. "We had to also use a neighboring park because we didn't have enough space here at the school to stack it up."

Parents and faculty wanted to help the families who lived in the areas impacted by the protests following last week's death of George Floyd while in police custody.

Hundreds of businesses in Minneapolis and St. Paul have been damaged and are closed, including grocery stores.

"The food locations and the pharmacies near the third precinct were damaged, creating a food desert for some of the families in our student body," Nelson said. "There are no places within walking distance for them to go and buy food."

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Volunteers sort donated groceries and supplies for families who live in the areas damaged by looting and protests.

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