SAN ANTONIO -- Just about a block away from the Alamo, PR firm ECHÜ remains intact on Monday morning. But it's neighbors just around the corner weren't so fortunate. 

“It’s really sad that this is what our community looks like now because a couple people decided to be reckless," said Christian Reed-Ogba, co-founder and co-owner of ECHÜ. 

ECHÜ is run by Reed-Ogba and her husband Uchennanaya Ogba and is only of the only businesses on its block that doesn't have plywood covering all of the windows. Some of the surrounding businesses do because looters broke in on Saturday night while others put it up as a preventatory measure. 

“It wasn’t even a question, I don’t think, that we we’re going to be in the middle of a protest and a counter protest, we knew that that was going to happen," Reed-Ogba said.

Instead of plywood, they put handmade Black Lives Matter signs up in their windows on Sunday, in preparation for the potential of continued rioting.

Reed-Ogba said that as the only black-owned PR firm in San Antonio, they wanted to show solidarity with the peaceful protestors while simultaneously asking the police for support.  

“And I feel that it was important for us to say that there are black-owned businesses downtown," Reed-Ogba said. “Of course, we are a black-owned business and we are not for rioting and destruction."

A Detroit native who moved to San Antonio almost a decade ago, Reed-Ogba is all too familiar with the history of race riots in her hometown and fears seeing history repeat itself. 

“I often have said that when I go back home, I find out, I get new ideas that I can bring back here, because I’ve watched how Detroit has grown and attempted to move past those riots," Reed-Ogba said. 

On Saturday night the couple watched a lot of the unfolding events on social media.

“Watching it, we expected the crowd to move around this corner and finish breaking these windows and they didn’t," Reed-Ogba said. 

She is heartbroken seeing her neighbors stores boarded up after looters smashed in their windows. 

“One of my favorite stores to walk by, they took everything," Reed-Ogba said, pointing to a candy store around the corner from ECHÜ.