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SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Eighteen businesses were damaged after a downtown May Day protest turned violent, requiring police to call other agencies for help, authorities said.
Police spokesman Zach Friend said about 250 people started marching through Santa Cruz about 10:30 p.m. Saturday. It was peaceful, he said, until some in the crowd started breaking windows and spraying paint on retail shops.
Friend said he wasn’t sure if the damage was caused by people marching in support of immigrants’ rights or if the group had been “infiltrated by anarchists.”
