((PKG))  PROTESTS / GRAFFITI CLEANUP   
((Banner:  The Message))  
((Reporter/Producer:  Julia Smith)) 
((Main character:  1 male))   
((Map:  Denver, Colorado)) 
((NATS)) 
((Khyyam Cooper, Owner, Home Theater Company))  
My name is Khyyam Cooper.  I own a company called Home 
Theater Company.  I'm a United States Air Force veteran 
and I've lived in Colorado about 27 years now.  
((NATS)) 
((Khyyam Cooper, Owner, Home Theater Company)) 
What actually brought me out, I saw some people on 
Snapchat.  They were out here cleaning up on Monday.  Girl 
and her boyfriend and a five-year-old kid were out here 
actually scrubbing by hand.  And once I saw them doing that, 
I was like, you know what, I can help out.  What really 
motivated me was seeing them do that.  And then I thought 
to myself, you know what, this will help the message versus 
the destruction.  The destruction was taking away from the 
message that people were seeing.  People were seeing the 
violence and the looting and they're forgetting what actually 
happened.  So, by doing this, this actually gets focus back to 
what the message is. 
((NATS)) 
((Khyyam Cooper, Owner, Home Theater Company)) 
So, the process to remove the graffiti.  When I first started, I 
was just using the power-washer.  Then I figured out today, 
by using the actual thinner, I can get down, scrub it, let it set 
for a minute and then use the power-washer to clean it off.  
And that process seems to be working the best by far.  
((NATS)) 
((Khyyam Cooper, Owner, Home Theater Company)) 
I've got to figure out how to get those up.  I don't know. 
People are perceiving the graffiti as destruction.  People are 
trying to convey the message with the graffiti.  And I 
understand what they're trying to do.  But the average 
person is looking at it as destruction and they're taking the 
message the wrong way.  They're saying, 'Oh my gosh, 
you're destroying everything.'  But they're not understanding 
what's happening.  These people are, they're out crying.  
They say, ‘Hey, listen to me.  Pay attention.  Look, look 
what's on the ground.  Not just a bunch of signs.’  But that's 
not the right way for the average person to see it.  People 
don't want to see the destruction.  The message is: Stop 
police brutality.  That's what the message is.  When 
something bad happens like that, people have to be 
accountable for their actions.  Police, government, anybody. 
No matter who it is.  Stop the violence.  Be accountable for 
what you do. 
((NATS)) 
((Khyyam Cooper, Owner, Home Theater Company))  
This is amazing to see so many different cultures, 
backgrounds and different people coming together, unifying 
across the globe.  So that means, everybody obviously 
knows there's a problem, there's an issue.  So, it means a lot 
to me to see people unifying and standing up for something 
that they all believe in, which is amazing.  So hopefully one 
day, that we won't have this issue anymore.  I hope to God 
we won't have this issue anymore.   
((NATS))