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‘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

Posted on 05/31/2020 5:00:53 PM PDT by karpov

In downtown Chicago, people crawled through the partially shattered exterior window of a Nike store and ran out carrying brightly colored athletic gear and sneakers.

On Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, they ignited garbage cans and broke locks on luxury stores, sweeping up armfuls of designer handbags and jeans.

And as night fell on Minneapolis, the heart of widening protests set off by the death of an African-American man in police custody there, business owners stood outside their doors and pleaded with agitators to spare the enterprises that many said they had spent their life savings to build.

“I was outside saying, ‘Please, I don’t have insurance!’” said Hussein Aloshani, an immigrant from Iraq, waving his arms in frustration as he recounted the scene Friday night outside the deli his family owns.

Businesses across the country suffered destruction over the weekend as protesters unleashed their anger over the death of George Floyd on commercial enterprises — from the offices of major multinational corporations and banks to family-owned restaurants and bars.

In some places, demonstrators scrawled graffiti on storefronts decrying police brutality against African-Americans, or echoing some of Mr. Floyd’s final words: “I can’t breathe.”

In others, they hurled crowbars and hammers at windows, and used gasoline to burn buildings to the ground.

Public officials said they were investigating whether political agitators posing as protesters may have led some of the looting. In some cities, peaceful protesters marching against police violence were outnumbered by others, such as white anarchists, who seemed more bent on destruction than messaging.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; US: California; US: Illinois; US: Minnesota; US: New York
KEYWORDS: caitlindickerson; california; chicago; civilunrest; husseinaloshani; illinois; iraq; losangeles; minneapolis; minnesota; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; riot; thugs
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To: bramps

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


41 posted on 05/31/2020 5:27:39 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Gene Eric

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


42 posted on 05/31/2020 5:29:01 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Zhang Fei

“ 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”.


43 posted on 05/31/2020 5:31:06 PM PDT by zencycler
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To: Zhang Fei

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


44 posted on 05/31/2020 5:32:36 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: DAC21

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

Lol. That was my first thought!


45 posted on 05/31/2020 5:34:04 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: Zhang Fei

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


46 posted on 05/31/2020 5:35:27 PM PDT by diatomite (Libs, the MSM, journos, actors - all are on the low-end of the Dunning-Kreuger effect)
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To: Amberdawn
or is it that he doesn’t have “riot insurance”?

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

47 posted on 05/31/2020 5:35:53 PM PDT by Poison Pill
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To: cloudmountain; Spktyr
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.

48 posted on 05/31/2020 5:36:13 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: Mastador1

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


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.


49 posted on 05/31/2020 5:36:29 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: butlerweave
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.

50 posted on 05/31/2020 5:38:09 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: zencycler

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


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.


51 posted on 05/31/2020 5:38:56 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Professional

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”.


52 posted on 05/31/2020 5:42:12 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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To: Inyo-Mono

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


53 posted on 05/31/2020 5:43:35 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: karpov

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


54 posted on 05/31/2020 5:47:03 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

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.


55 posted on 05/31/2020 5:49:21 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: reg45

Federal prison and ordnance testing site.

Dual purpose, for a little while.


56 posted on 05/31/2020 5:49:53 PM PDT by wally_bert (Transmission tone, Selma.)
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To: Spktyr

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


57 posted on 05/31/2020 5:50:52 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: lizma2

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


58 posted on 05/31/2020 5:51:08 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: cloudmountain

59 posted on 05/31/2020 5:55:08 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who could have guessed the Communist Revolution would arrive disguised as the common cold?)
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To: Inyo-Mono

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.


60 posted on 05/31/2020 5:55:41 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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