Posted on 11/25/2014 1:52:12 PM PST by grundle
FERGUSON, Missouri----KMOV-TV reports that the majority of stores that were damaged or completely destroyed during Monday night's violent riots in Ferguson were minority owned. Fire Departments around the St. Louis County Area put out 25 structural fires caused by vandals and looters following the announcement from the grand jury that Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson would not be indicted in the death of Mike Brown.
Most of the damaged businesses were on West Florissant Avenue and included: Walgreens, Little Caesers Pizza, Autozone, Beauty Town, Title Max, Family Dollar Store, and O'Reilly Auto Parts. Small-business owner Natalie Dubose was in tears when she realized her cake store was attacked by vandals.
Dubose, a mother of two, previously told CNN, "If I can't open my doors every morning, I can't feed my kids in the evening. Just don't burn my shop down, don't destroy it."
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Thats what they get for acting white and getting all uppity served them right they dint build that
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Bunch of Oreos and Uncle Toms!
Don’t reopen them - take your insurance check and start up some where else - where your customers appreciate the business - and would never “Burn this bitch down” mentality that comes out of the mouth of Mikey Brown’s step-father, x-convict ...LEAVE THE AREA - and let the animals prey on each other!
While there is a heavy tone of /sarc in your comment, you probably nailed the point.
I’m sure the tax paying public will be asked to supply a few dollars
via the Fed coffers to get them back on their feet.
Most insurance policies do not cover civil unrest. IOW, these hard working people are most likely screwed. Sigh.
Governor Nixon to Obama: “Mission accomplished!”
“Most insurance policies do not cover civil unrest. IOW, these hard working people are most likely screwed. Sigh.”
I would imagine that many of them only had the minimal insurance required for workman’s compensation claims anyway.
They still should, if they can, relocate to less (I am struggling for a polite term) multicultural location.
Well they can’t help their color, but they would be very helpful to lean on their overexcited brethren that even if this thing between Brown and Wilson was as bad as it was cracked up to be, it is not worth smashing one window over, let alone burning down the town. Not if there is a God.
If there are any reasonable people left they should band together with these folks to show the town what a shameful act it just committed.
Did the town really believe, along with the Wrong Rev. Wright, that God had nothing better to do than to damn? Were they voting to have hell annex it?
The properties/businesses must be uninsurable at this point; I wouldn’t be surprised if the city could be sued for having the police stand down. Businesses pay taxes that pay cops, and they can’t just be yanked like that; when they are, any “makers” leave permanently.
Anyone here willing to step up to the plate and organize a fund drive to help the small business people of Ferguson get back on their feet if they don't have riot insurance?
All these stores burned down, all the cars burned, were no accident. This wasn’t random actions by denizens of the Canfield Apartment complex. This was para-military type coordination by militant anarchist/communist/muslim groups.
They attacked the police station first, then held a ‘standoff’ action there to keep as many cops busy protecting the police station as they could.
They were using walkie-talkies to coordinate. They staged protests are various locations to occupy the police.
Then they sent teams out in vehicles to start fires (Molotov Cocktails) and teams to loot.
That depends on whether Natalie was ‘OK’ with things right up until they busted into her shop.
I would offer to donate to help her.
“Most small businesses have what’s known as a businessowners policy (BOP), and BOPs generally cover riot-caused property damage,” according to Insurance Information Institute spokesman Michael Barry.
The National Underwriter’s Commercial Property Coverage Guide defines a riot as “any tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons mutually assisting one another in execution of a common purpose by the unlawful use of force and violence resulting in property damage of any kind.”
(The Los Angeles riots of 1992 caused $775 million in insured losses, according to the Insurance Information Institute.)
Brent Butler, government affairs director for the Missouri Insurance Coalition, also said most commercial policies cover riots. Merchandise stolen — not just property damage — would also typically be covered, he said.
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