Black business owners at George Floyd
Square pleading for help as crime spikes
and revenue plummets
Washington Examiner,
by
Andrew Mark Miller
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
4/23/2021 2:45:19 PM
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.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
hershey 4/23/2021 2:54:00 PM (No. 764886)
George Floyd Square??? You've gotta be kidding me...complete with a huge model of a needle and a pile of white stuff???
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
formerNYer 4/23/2021 2:54:08 PM (No. 764887)
maybe blm can donate money to help save these businiess? lol
36 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
BillW. 4/23/2021 2:54:55 PM (No. 764890)
Time to make a choice. No, It will not be easy.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
SALady 4/23/2021 3:03:41 PM (No. 764897)
White people tend to work and have money. We also tend to be pretty color-blind when it comes to shopping and eating -- if it's good, we are going there to spend our money.
But turn a square into a "hate whitey" center, and white people with more than 6 working brain cells are going to tend to avoid that area at all costs. So a bunch of self-hating white lie-beral snowflakes (who don't tend to have any money since they live in mommy's basement and just can't understand why they don't have great jobs after getting a "women's studies" degree from some overpriced private college) will visit there to hate themselves and their race. But all those sane hard-working white people (and their money) are staying very far away.
And this is the logical conclusion of that!!!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jinx 4/23/2021 3:05:32 PM (No. 764899)
...but, but, but I thought you wanted to defund the police! Can't have it both ways. Either the police get to do their jobs or not. You can thank BLM and Antifa and Joe Biden for this.
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Awwww....
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
subman47 4/23/2021 3:15:02 PM (No. 764906)
I think I read this somewhere, Go Woke Go Broke. Maybe BLM will patronizre these poor merchants and you know spend some of their millions they collected over the last two or three years. Is there any left after all those real estate deals went down? Hope so.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Lazyman 4/23/2021 3:17:17 PM (No. 764907)
You don't need a Risk Management degree to understand predictable and preventable.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bpl40 4/23/2021 3:20:36 PM (No. 764910)
You are at cross roads - Be Woke or Be Broke. BTW this choice is not restricted to the George Floyd Autonomous Zone. Applies to a host of other businesses - Coke, Delta, Disney, P & G, Starbucks, Google, Apple you name it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 4/23/2021 3:20:54 PM (No. 764911)
And what did you brainiacs think was going to happen? Without law enforcement life would be a cross between sesame street and the chocolate factory? Instead your turning Minneapolis into a large Spahn Movie Ranch.
If you care to look, ever since the blm/antifa/defend the police movement began more black lives have died as shown by statistics of the increasing murder rates than have been killed by the police. So keep giving to and supporting a organization where in reality your black life or anybody else's does NOT matter. Ask yourselves what are the true desires of the blm hierarchy? Not to hard to figure out unless you are a self loathing little snowflake that can't handle the reality of their life choices.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Quigley 4/23/2021 3:37:48 PM (No. 764928)
Lord of the flies. A group of wokers crash land in Liberaltopia and set up a social organization in their own image.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Jesse Jenkem 4/23/2021 3:48:37 PM (No. 764933)
You've made your bed, now lie in it.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Bazi 4/23/2021 3:59:45 PM (No. 764938)
It’s more than a square. It’s also a holy place. People are getting baptized in a metal tub in the St. George place of holiness. Search: Minneapolis George Floyd baptism. A picture is worth a thousand words.
6 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Highlander 4/23/2021 4:08:14 PM (No. 764944)
To put an end to all this BLM garbage is for the blacks to have a civil war of their own, with the whites standing by. Once the dust is settled, the conservative blacks should be the victors. We had ours, now it’s their turn.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 4/23/2021 4:10:48 PM (No. 764946)
LOL! Be careful what you fools wish for. You might discover that at the end of your fake 'stop white supremecists' rainbow there is a pot of rotting manure.
5 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
bad-hair 4/23/2021 4:14:41 PM (No. 764954)
Maybe the small business owner should have just taken the bogus 20 buck bill that Floyd handed him.
6 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 4/23/2021 4:22:04 PM (No. 764964)
Those poor merchants - - more victims of white supremacy.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Rama41 4/23/2021 4:29:40 PM (No. 764971)
Sounds like something else to add to the infrastructure bill.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 4/23/2021 4:46:06 PM (No. 764981)
You can't blame people for shunning the area. That poor guy's BBQ might be great but not great enough to risk your life to get it. Honest people will avoid dangerous areas. It's just common sense. Nobody wants to swim in a crocodile-infested river.
6 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 4/23/2021 4:51:37 PM (No. 764987)
We have a “black” problem in America
73% illegitimate birth rate
Only 1 out if 4 of them come from a family
The other 3 out of 4 DON’T!
We have a “black” problem in America
......crickets chirping.........
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
AltaD 4/23/2021 6:13:19 PM (No. 765051)
Maybe BLM's co-founder will sell one of her 4 homes and send the proceeds to these business owners.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
rochow 4/23/2021 6:14:51 PM (No. 765058)
Must be all them Amish in Halloween costumes, becuz we ain't committing no crimes, evvva!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
skacmar 4/23/2021 6:32:31 PM (No. 765076)
Well, we are expected to go by the new BLACK cultural norms. Knife fights are apparently now ok. There are special rules for any White folks who might be brave (foolish) enough to venture anywhere near George Floyd Square. I also guess that petty crime is something that is acceptable also per Black activists. Apparently police need to check the ages of anyone before they attempt any kind of intervention, and if they resist, they are to let them go on their way as if nothing happened (even if they have a Warrant for their arrest). You see, all of the new rules and regulation requested / demanded/ suggested by the media, woke celebrities, BLM, ANTIFA, woke politicians. Also, if someone has a knife or gun, police shouldn't take action. They should call a Social Worker to talk to the person before doing anything. I'm sure the shooting/stabbing victims will understand. And business owners....stop your whining about business. Your greedy Capitalist agenda is oppressing people and creating global warming. Global warming is the leading cause of police shootings of Black people. Stop being so selfish!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
HammerDax56 4/23/2021 6:33:31 PM (No. 765078)
Well. Well. Well.
Another teaching moment.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Jerseyden 4/23/2021 6:40:52 PM (No. 765090)
I’ve heard of suicide by cops , but I think this is for white people suicide by G Floyd Square.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 4/23/2021 7:30:13 PM (No. 765114)
My guess is woke whitey liberals will make a quick pilgrimage to St George Square, gets some selfies, then flee the area before patronizing any businesses.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
clayusmcret 4/23/2021 8:08:44 PM (No. 765140)
If I were them I would appeal to Lebron James. He seems to have a supportive opinion and (if you support his Chi-Com friends) huge amounts of undeserved money.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Luandir 4/23/2021 10:06:31 PM (No. 765210)
Right up there with North Korea on my no-go list.
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Someone in my circle sent out that piece of garbage written about "Have you shopped in a black business?" Oh heck no.
You want to be racist and segregated, call up BLM founders. Don't call the po lice. Call a social worker.
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Let’s see. Rules are posted for whites visiting the square. Strict rules. They have not been abandoned. Their wokeness has put them in peril… A few weeks or months ago they were probably all for BLM, Antifa and Defund the Police.