‘Please, I Don’t Have Insurance’: Businesses Plead With Protesters. Businesses ranging from national chain stores to neighborhood pizza shops have been damaged in the wake of George Floyd’s death. Stunned store owners were still assessing their losses.

New York Times ^ | May 31, 2020 | Caitlin Dickerson

[Secret Agent Man]

Oh come on

everyone has a soul

Some people have seared their consciences so that they do horrible things without it bothering them one second

Even Hillary had a soul before she sold it to Satan

[reg45]

The events will be declared an insurrection and damage will not be covered by insurance.

[zencycler]

“ The rioters will learn their lesson when those stores never reopen, the storefronts remain burned-out and they have to go miles out of their way to shop”

You are right about consequences, but not on lessons learned - because of course they will then blame their desolate neighborhoods on “institutional racism”.

[reg45]

Alcatraz needs to be reopened as a Federal prison for indigenous terrorists.

[lizma2]

“Caitlin Dickerson out of her NY Times job in 3..2..1”

Lol. That was my first thought!

[diatomite]

5-10 years from now some liberal politician will be whining about food deserts in these areas.

[Poison Pill]

or is it that he doesn’t have “riot insurance”?

There really is no such thing. Business insurance policies exclude riots, wars and pandemics.

[Inyo-Mono]

It reminded me of the LA protests. I recall KOREAN men guarding their store with rifles and guns...fighting those looting, burning a-holes below! The Korean men wore those white headbands. It's still a vivid picture in my mind.

And Spktyr here on FR was one of them.

[Zhang Fei]

[Designate them domestic terrorists and drop their asses in Gitmo and I guarantee they will melt back into the sewers they came from.]

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American citizens arrested on US soil for what amounts to vandalism and looting amped to the max? I doubt that will fly. Even the Boston bombing and the Fort Hood shooting were played out in Federal court. Gitmo’s just a PR disaster. Detention without trial will never fly with the American voter.

[Freee-dame]

Part of President Trump’s awesome speech ( maybe his best ever) at Cape Canaveral after the launch of SpaceX was about George Floyd and the riots. He should just have that part played on prime time TV.

Most Americans probably do not even know that SpaceX launched yesterday.

[Zhang Fei]

[You are right about consequences, but not on lessons learned - because of course they will then blame their desolate neighborhoods on “institutional racism”.]

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The specific people inconvenienced will learn because they can’t avoid the day-to-day problems. They’ll blame racism, but note that the far-away places where they now have to shop were not similarly destroyed during the disturbances.

[21twelve]

I just renewed my business insurance in February. I’m pretty safe, but maybe should have paid the little bit extra to cover loss due to terrorism.

Although I’m sure there would have been fine print that it didn’t cover “peaceful protests that turned violent”.

[Spktyr]

I’m still not Korean, though, and I never wore a stupid headband. :P As I posted elsewhere, there were a lot of us on rooftops that weren’t Korean.

This rather iconic bit of video is more typical of what it looked like to be there, and what the people looked like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzkBGQx3HAc

[joma89]

And as expected, the police and governments have become the enemy. They do not stop or arrest looters or attackers but immediately arrest anyone who tries to defend themself or property.

JoMa

[lizma2]

We at looking at a high percentage of this generation whose parents taught them the world revolved around them. (Easy way to parent.)

I think we are looking at a bunch of indoctrinated narcissist.

I won’t see it but this has a good chance of not ending well.

[wally_bert]

Federal prison and ordnance testing site.

Dual purpose, for a little while.

[Inyo-Mono]

Sorry, I knew you were not Korean from reading your prior posts, but I still am amazed at what you guys did.

[Secret Agent Man]

the parents weren’t around, they didn’t parent at all

everyone in the g-dam house glued to a tube or tsblet all the frigging time

[E. Pluribus Unum]

[Spktyr]

I did a lot less than most, being underage at the time, and I wasn’t even at the worst of it.

As I said elsewhere, it was a lot easier to choose to do what we did, knowing the cops had abandoned the city. I am not certain that I would make the same decision today if the police hadn’t bailed and instead were arresting defenders. So the LAPD bailing was actually good in a number of ways.