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'We Weren't Goin' to Sit Back and Let It Happen': Italian Bakery Owners Welcome Cleveland Looters with an Impressive Arsenal
PJ Media ^ | 31 May 2020 | Paula Bolyard

Posted on 05/31/2020 6:17:56 PM PDT by Rummyfan

What began as a peaceful protest in Cleveland Saturday turned violent as the day progressed, prompting Mayor Frank Jackson to issue an 8 p.m. curfew and to request National Guard reinforcements to protect the city from rioters. Corbo’s, a tiny family-owned bakery in the city’s historic Playhouse Square district, took matters into their own hands, brandishing their firearms when rioters came calling.

video captured by Rob Rash, rioters and looters can be seen approaching Corbo’s Bakery, taunting the owners and threatening them with iron rods and a large pylon with a heavy metal base. Three men stood in the doorway of the bakery, defending their property and exercising their Second Amendment rights. A minute later the rioters were gone, having moved on to the business next door, where they shattered a massive storefront window....

Rioters later came back and shattered the bakery’s front windows. “We r here all night now because they broke r big windows,” the bakery wrote on Facebook. “Thankful my sons n husband didn’t get hurt! We r just protecting r business..we want no trouble but unfortunately they came at us w bats n weapons. God bless u guys too!” It doesn’t appear the rioters entered the bakery and there was no sign of looting at the Playhouse Square location.

Rioters destroyed and looted storefronts along a one-mile stretch of Euclid Avenue, one of Cleveland’s busiest thoroughfares.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2a; antifa; armedcitizen; banglist; cleveland; looting; ohio; rkba; thugs; wantondestruction
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Sooner or later some of these rioters are going to be shot. Then things are going to get real interesting.

1 posted on 05/31/2020 6:17:56 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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Looters should always get shot. It’s what my parents taught me.


2 posted on 05/31/2020 6:19:43 PM PDT by grimalkin (Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. -Fulton J. Sheen)
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I’d definitely go to that bakery!


3 posted on 05/31/2020 6:19:48 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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Lootin’ needs shootin’


4 posted on 05/31/2020 6:20:43 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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I guess they don’t understand the old Italian saying of leave the gun, take the cannoli.


5 posted on 05/31/2020 6:22:57 PM PDT by LukeL
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Now if only the police could get a clue from these “dough” boys and do their job. You know “To Serve and Protect” Now more like “To run and hide”.


6 posted on 05/31/2020 6:23:33 PM PDT by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
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Those are the guys who put the holes in the dough nuts. Looking good bakery.


7 posted on 05/31/2020 6:24:26 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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I will buy cakes and cookies from that bakery! You GO, dough men!


8 posted on 05/31/2020 6:25:15 PM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON.)
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To: Rummyfan

Reminded of a movie quote... “Don Corleone sends his regards.”

These guys are great.


9 posted on 05/31/2020 6:28:27 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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“We weren’t going to sit back and let it happen”.

That’s how I know these guys aren’t Democrat governors or mayors.

When some looter inevitably gets shot within the next few days (an aspiring rapper about to resume their education at community college no doubt...) there will be a nationwide concerted attempt to use that incident to justify seizing weapons from citizens.

I wish this stuff wasn’t so easy to predict.


10 posted on 05/31/2020 6:28:31 PM PDT by Junk Silver (If we're "all in this together" name one government employee or bureaucrat who has been laid off.)
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Wow.

The video guy says it is ok to loot, because the store owners “have insurance”. Wow.


11 posted on 05/31/2020 6:29:46 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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What a shame that the rioters went back and shattered the storefront window.

But, at least these guys weren’t harmed and the rioters didn’t enter their store.


12 posted on 05/31/2020 6:33:19 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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But But But......Rioters might get shot. Boo hoo hoo.

Tough chit if they do. Hey! I’ve got an idea! How about you not act like a barbarian and instead act like a civilized human being? You’re far less likely to get shot that way.


13 posted on 05/31/2020 6:33:48 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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A few decades ago, the ‘inner city youths’ knew not to go a few blocks over to Little Italy and cause trouble. It looks like one of the Italian bakeries have moved about 4 or so miles down Euclid. But the rules haven’t changed.


14 posted on 05/31/2020 6:37:56 PM PDT by PAR35
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“Now youse can’t leave.”


15 posted on 05/31/2020 6:38:43 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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The looters are being responsible. They are making sure they wear a mask. /sarc.


16 posted on 05/31/2020 6:39:18 PM PDT by jonrick46 (<br>Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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Nice.

Is as it should be.


17 posted on 05/31/2020 6:39:19 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.....)
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Nobody (else) went after a business that had paid protection money to the mafiosi.

You want your store protected from the Antifa fascists, buy some protection insurance from the cosa nostra and you’ll be safe (from the fascists).


18 posted on 05/31/2020 6:45:03 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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Shoot three or four looters and watch this sh*t come to a halt. Looters are cowards.


19 posted on 05/31/2020 6:47:42 PM PDT by szweig (HYHEY!! (Have You Had Enough Yet))
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White blonde antifa girl gets right up in front. Weird.


20 posted on 05/31/2020 6:48:07 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is solving the world's problems only to distract us from Russia.)
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