Alex Seitz-Wald is a senior politics reporter for NBC News.
LEWISTON, Maine — When chef Jeff Bailey and his daughter Gabriel woke up Thursday, the morning after the worst mass shooting in Maine’s history, and realized most businesses would be closed, they wondered how police hunting the killer and the medical staff members treating the wounded would find anything to eat. So they decided to open their Jamaican food truck exclusively for first responders, free of charge, making it one of the only places in town with a hot meal available.
Losing population and businesses, city leaders worked to turn things around in the 1990s, which coincided with a contingent of Somali refugees’ discovering the city and deciding to resettle here. Their presence was met with some opposition, some of it from the city’s mayor and white nationalist groups, but a massive counterdemonstration during which thousands of supporters turned out — including many of the state’s major elected officials — seemed to settle things in the immigrants’ favor.
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