Black business owners at George Floyd Square pleading for help as crime spikes and revenue plummets

 

by Andrew Mark Miller, Social Media Producer  April 23, 2021

 

Black-owned businesses surrounding the area where George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis last year say they are in desperate need of help from police.  Black merchants operating on the corner of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue, known as George Floyd Square, are struggling to stay open due to rampant crime and say police have blocked off the intersection, creating a dangerous autonomous zone, according to the New York Post.

“The city left me in danger,” the owner of Smoke in the Pit said Thursday, two days after Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder for Floyd’s death. “They locked us up on here and left us behind.”

Several stores on the block are boarded up, and the New York Post reported that many owners and workers were afraid to comment about the dire situation due to fear of reprisal.

“Look around. Things are empty,” said Richard Roberts, who works at a nearby church. “What can we do about it?”.........To Read More.....

 Our Group's Take - No surprise here.  Over and over again we see that the supposed efforts by the left to "help" minorities, in fact very very predictably makes things far worse for them.  But so long as most of them keep voting for Democrats, the left just doesn't care or actually likes it, because poor angry people make for more voter turnout for the left.