Saturday, May 30, 2020

LOOTERS - IT'S SO BLACK! - He begged looters not to attack his struggling restaurant: ‘I’m just ... trying to survive’

He begged looters not to attack his struggling restaurant: ‘I’m just ... trying to survive’



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A Starbucks is looted along Spring St. in Downtown Los Angeles Friday night. 
(Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)
It was 10:30 p.m. Friday and 19-year-old Alexa Huizar was working inside D-town Burger Bar Los Angeles when she heard windows being smashed.
Huizar stepped outside and saw a crowd breaking into the Starbucks at the corner of 6th and Spring streets.
She immediately texted her boss a video of the demonstrators breaking into the Starbucks.
At home, in South Gate, Pedro Mojarro, 32, got it and rushed over. He would spend the next few hours protecting his struggling business during a night and morning of looting and vandalism.
He pleaded with anyone who came by not to damage his restaurant.

“If you’re not standing outside of your businesses, they’re going to break into it,” he said.
Mojarro said he supported the demonstrators but he didn’t like that they were targeting businesses.
“We’re with you, I’m not against you,” he said. “If you need to protest go do it in front of the police station. Be angry at them.”
The protests were in response to the death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis. His encounter with police began Monday night after Floyd, a black man, was accused of trying to use a counterfeit $20 bill at a grocery store.
Cellphone video of Floyd’s arrest outside the business shows Officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, driving his knee into the 46-year-old’s neck as Floyd pleads that he can’t breathe. After several minutes, Floyd appears to lose consciousness, and a bystander can be heard yelling that Floyd’s nose is bleeding. Even as paramedics arrive to check Floyd’s pulse, Chauvin’s knee remains positioned on the man’s neck in the video.
Mojarro said he was mostly upset that the demonstrators didn’t take into consideration how difficult it has been for businesses like his.
He said he had to shut down his second business in Boyle Heights because of the coronavirus outbreak. A month ago, someone broke the window of his burger shop in downtown L.A., which ended up costing him $7,500. On top of that, sales at his restaurant were down by more than 70%.
“Give us a break,” he said. “We got a lot going on already.”
Along 6th Street, between Spring Street and Broadway, residents watched from their lofts and apartments, sometimes egging on demonstrators as they drank beer and recorded video of the chaos.
In the downtown loft district, jewelry stores were hit. One person offered a reporter a handful of stolen jewelry. A nearby CVS pharmacy was looted, as were other businesses elsewhere in the city.
Some pleaded with demonstrators not to damage their cars parked on the street. Almost every wall on a building was tagged with profanity and anti-police statements
Fireworks were set off on the streets, the sparks hitting buildings. The smoke filled the air and protesters became looters, breaking into stores stealing tennis shoes, clothing and electronic items such as televisions screens and speakers.
Demonstrators broke into jewelry stores, rushing in and smashing display cases and taking anything that may have been left out. Jewelry lay on the sidewalk and street and people stopped to scoop up some of it, others began distributing to other people or telling others where to go loot.
“You need tennis shoes? Just go up the street, you can get whatever you want,” one man told another.
One business on 6th Street had a signed that read “Black owned.” The windows of the salon next to it were broken.
It was 2 a.m. and Mojarro and Huizar were still standing outside of the restaurant, taking video as protesters ran up and down the street, smashing things.
Asked what he wanted demonstrators to know: “I’m just a business owner trying to survive.”





WARNING GRAPHIC: Dallas Protesters Beat Man to Near-Death Outside Store

Dallas Man beaten nearly to death by mob at George Floyd protest. (Photo: Twitter Screenshot/Blaze TV/@Elijah Schaffer)
Photo: Twitter Video Screenshot/Blaze TV/@Elijah Schaffer
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A video of the George Floyd protest in Dallas appears to show a man being beaten nearly to death by the crowd. The victim reportedly tried to defend his shop with a large sword, a report states.
A video posted by Blaze TV’s Elijah Schaffer shows a man being beaten by a mob after he reportedly attempted to “defend a shop with a large sword.” Shaffer reported the rioters turned on the man and beat him with a skateboard and stoned him with rocks.

BREAKING: man critically injured at Dallas riots

It appears he attempted to defend a shop with a large sword

Looters ran at him, then he charged rioters

They then beat him with a skateboard and stoned him with medium sized rocks

I called an Ambulance and it’s on the way



The article claims the man was critically injured. The reporter said he called an ambulance for the victim.
The victim can be seen being assaulted by multiple attackers. Toward the end of the attack, one man appears to kick the victim in the head and then runs away.
The carnage is evident as the crowd disperses and the victim is revealed lying apparently unconscious in an unnatural position face down in the street.
A later post by the reporter shows the “critically injured” man being tended to by emergency medical workers.


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WATCH: Armed Store Owners Protect Businesses from Looters

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AP Photo/Julio Cortez
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Numerous armed business owners in Minneapolis can be seen on video standing guard to shield their businesses from looters.
Protests turned into full-scale riots as crowds gathered night after night in the city following the May 25, 2020, death of George Floyd. Businesses and police stations were set ablaze, windows shattered, police cars vandalized, and department stores looted.
Some business owners have responded by banding together, armed with AR-15s, AK-47s, pistols, and other firearms to protect their property.
WARNING: LANGUAGE


On August 15, 2014, Breitbart News reported armed men protected St. Louis’ businesses from looters in the aftermath of the shooting death of Michael Brown.
Store owners of Riverfront Tattoo used AR-15s to keep their business from being looted and “men with concealed 9mm handguns and revolvers” gathered to defend Mally’s Supermarket.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkinsa weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.