Posted on 08/14/2020 9:04:24 AM PDT by lowbridge
A devastated Chicago store owner said he may have to close for good — after looters trashed his business for the second time in months.
Walid Mouhammad told WLS how his convenience store was targeted again just 40 days after a $300,000 restoration because it was trashed at the end of May by thugs claiming to be protesting George Floyd’s death.
The store was hit again Monday while Mouhammad was watching in real-time on security cameras as the robbers ripped out a pricey new steel security door, then trashed the store and even ripped out an ATM, he said.
Mouhammad said he and the building’s owners and staff repeatedly called for police help — but none came as the force was overwhelmed by marauders across the city.
“This is the second time,” Mouhammad told the station. “I’ve been open for just 40 days, so who will be responsible for this?”
Mouhammad said the damage is worse than the May attack, and he fears that after spending so much repairing that damage, just to see it destroyed again will likely force him to close down for good.
That would be particularly alarming for locals during the pandemic, especially the elderly who rely on his store for fresh produce and meat and would now need to travel for vital supplies, residents said.
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DEMOCRATS are responsible, Muhammed.
Maybe they needed to put some armed Koreans on the roof.
What can we say? Destructive radical leftists do not do anything positive. They simply destroy what others have created.
Explain "social justice" to me again...
> the robbers ripped out a pricey new steel security door <
Interesting. Either the robbers were pretty darn clever or that door really wasn’t a security door.
So no guarantee on the new steel door as to efficacy?
Do these thugs riot and loot every time a career criminal like Saint Floyd dies of a drug overdose?
Remember these events for the next time the left whines about food deserts.
Many of the same activists cheering on these “Mostly Peaceful Protests™“ will now be decrying the RACISM of all the FOOD DESERTS, and will not see the basic cause and effect on display.
Destructive radical leftists do not do anything positive. They simply destroy what others have created.
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Correct. And then there’s the larger issue of whether or not we want to live in a relatively safe and civilized society. We will find out in November I guess.
You know what’s ironic?
Blacks don’t even own the businesses in their neighborhoods.
Who owns the convenience stores? Liquor stores? And even restaurants?
Usually Middle Eastern, Indian, Asian or Hispanic owners.
Ann Coulter talked about this and said the Immigration Act of 1965 was responsible.
The President was right. The first signs of this behavior should have been met with overwhelming force. Now the thugs know they can pillage with impunity.
That evil racists wants black people to live in food deserts!
Absolutely right. You nailed it.
They destroy the businesses and then complain about the lack of access to convenient stores. Create the problem and then demand someone else fix it. The height of irrationality.
>>whether or not we want to live in a relatively safe and civilized society.
To even ask such a question has been deemed “white supremacy” by the powers that be.
Listened yesterday to an interview of a guy in Minneapolis who had property was burned to the ground.
The city put a fence around the debris and sent the guy a bill for the fence!!!
> as the robbers ripped out a pricey new steel security door,
A ringing endorsement for that door...
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