Posted on 06/05/2020 9:46:39 AM PDT by 11th_VA
Theres a 6-mile long commercial corridor in South Minneapolis called Lake Street, and it has been destroyed.
We no longer have pharmacies in our community, said ZoeAna Martinez, who works for the Lake Street Council, a business association. We no longer have gas stations as well. Our largest grocery stores are also gone, Martinez said. Right now, our community, we live in a food desert, which happened overnight.
In Minneapolis and Saint Paul, hundreds of businesses have been damaged or burned to the ground. The same has happened in cities around the country.
Pretty much half of a city block completely burned down Sunday night, said Bea Rider, interim executive director of the New Kensington Community Development Corp., a neighborhood group in Philadelphia. Pharmacies, bodegas, clothing stores, check-cashing spots all gone. And these losses hurt certain groups more than others.
Low-income families who are underbanked, so they rely on check-cashing businesses, theyre definitely feeling a pinch, Rider said.
Also, people who dont have cars to drive to an intact store in the suburbs. And seniors who may have trouble getting around and who are more likely to need prescriptions filled.
This is all in the background as the pandemic is still very much with us, and some businesses had curtailed certain degrees of operation because of that, said Tabitha Montgomery, executive director of the Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association in Minneapolis.
Community groups and churches are trying to fill the gap with donated supplies, but thats a short-term fix. And Montgomery said she thinks the neighborhood will bear the scars of this moment for decades, even after the stores are rebuilt.
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When the folks start rioting, the people who live in the
community need to take their guns out and eliminate the
problem.
Recidivism would plummet.
Wow. You mean there are consequences to actions?
Oh, poor cupcakes. This is only the beginning of your minneapolis based concerns. Without police, truckers wont bring things to you, neither will UPS or Fedex come. Stores wont restock or rebuild only to watch you loot it again. Without police backups, paramedics wont be coming to your drug overdose. Only the surface is scratched here.
And the worst part, you wont have TP.
Airdrop some pallets of MREs.
Outstanding; blue helmets make’s them easier to target.
Would you want to be the delivery driver?
Not me, even with combat pay!
Not me.
There are a lot of places like that in New Orleans.
Let the sorry bastards starve.
Why would insurance go up if they don’t have to cover acts of civil unrest in the first place? Plus taxpayers end up footing the bill for rebuilding and “insurance” for future damage. We talking the local govts give them major concessions to rebuild in the high risk areas. They sure don’t do it because they’re nice guys. One big secret we never publicly hear about.
Rebuilding doesn’t help much either. Look back to the CVS that was burned in Baltimore. Reopened a year later but no longer stocked controlled substances at that location so they couldn’t be looted again. So people who need such prescriptions filled have travel miles away to another pharmacy.
“they can just order from Amazon and Grubhub”
From my experience, that won’t last for long. The locals will beat and rob the drivers, and the area will become a “no-go” zone. Then they will complain how “The Man” always keeps them down.
You read it here, first.
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