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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: Inyo-Mono

Oh, and I took no offense - I was more replying to the guy classifying everyone there as Korean. :)


61 posted on 05/31/2020 5:56:22 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr

: )


62 posted on 05/31/2020 5:57:46 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: diatomite

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


Indeed.


63 posted on 05/31/2020 6:02:23 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: E. Pluribus Unum

I think it might be time to retire the brave Korean memes now. It’s 2020 and they would be killed by police snipers instantly in the world we now inhabit.


64 posted on 05/31/2020 6:07:34 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: Zhang Fei; PAR35
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...I read somewhere that after the LA riots, half of the businesses failed to reopen, and locals had to travel much further to shop for the basics.

There are plenty of cities that never recovered from the riots in the 1960s, especially in the Northeast.

It would be interesting to start a website like Deadmall.com that highlights the property lots in these cities which have had no taxes paid on them since then. The ongoing dollar value in wasted tax opportunities (in addition to the lost employment and GDP opportunities) needs to be attached to these Democrat politicians forever.

No Bailouts for Democrat States!

65 posted on 05/31/2020 6:08:18 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: karpov

Ig sign..

Yes, you won’t breathe here...


66 posted on 05/31/2020 6:22:46 PM PDT by Daniel Ramsey (Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best)
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To: karpov

It would be a shame if they burned down the New York Slimes.....not!


67 posted on 05/31/2020 6:36:26 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Wipe ANTIFA off the face of the Earth. Indict Soros, too...their sugar daddy.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Last year on Father’s Day I was at the mall with friends and we decided to go to the food court.

Many families there. ALL glued to their cell phone!!

Growing up in the 60’s and 70’s, you came home from school, did your homework, ate a family dinner (And if was liver, you flicked it off your plate when your parents weren’t watching and the dog would eat it) and spent the evening sitting with your parents watching TV shows like “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and “F Troop” .

Summers you spent all day playing with the kids in the neighborhood. (climbing tree’s, riding bikes, snake hunting, playing “Man From U.N.C.L.E,” were considered cool back then)

We have replaced social interaction with social media. Social interaction is where you learn compassion, empathy and kindness.

This will not end well.


68 posted on 05/31/2020 6:38:11 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: karpov

It should be.....

*You loot, we shoot* and aim at them.


69 posted on 05/31/2020 6:50:42 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.....)
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To: lizma2

good summary

yup


70 posted on 05/31/2020 6:53:10 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: The Toll

“I think it might be time to retire the brave Korean memes now. It’s 2020 and they would be killed by police snipers instantly in the world we now inhabit.”

Not yet.

https://mobile.twitter.com/FrankHassleYT/status/1267156524453048320


71 posted on 05/31/2020 7:03:41 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: karpov

Blue American being murdered by Blue Americans!


72 posted on 05/31/2020 7:05:17 PM PDT by Chgogal (Wuhan Virus, Chinese Virus, Kung Fu Virus - Wuhan Chinese Kung Fu Virus aka CCP virus.)
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To: karpov

The business owners will reach the end of their rope. President Trump was right when he said, “When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”


73 posted on 05/31/2020 7:07:05 PM PDT by jonrick46 (<br>Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: Poison Pill

I was being a bit facetious there, but I do wonder if any business must have insurance in order to open.


74 posted on 05/31/2020 7:39:58 PM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: bakkentom; All

The media knows this they’re sitting on it.


75 posted on 05/31/2020 11:35:55 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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To: karpov

Yes, a business owner should say, “I don’t have any(more) insurance but I have this - show gun/rifle/shotgun and say “I know how to use it. I have before. My way or the highway.”


76 posted on 05/31/2020 11:39:45 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: mosesdapoet
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77 posted on 05/31/2020 11:44:05 PM PDT by timestax
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To: timestax
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78 posted on 05/31/2020 11:45:48 PM PDT by timestax
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