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On a side note, as one of the comments in the article touches upon, there seems to be a pattern with these types of stores in inner cities and low income areas. If you are non-Black and own these stores, there's a pretty good chance you will be blamed for many of the ills in that area. Whether it's the Korean immigrants in South L.A. or Arabs in the midwest, there may come a point you will be demonized as being insensitive to the 'needs' of the community and activists will complain that Blacks need to support only other Black owned businesses. Certainly some of these immigrants are not always blameless in their attitudes and demeanor towards the local community, but that doesn't mean they all are. I realize the financial startup costs may be lower, but there comes a point when you have to ask yourself is it worth the headache when you will be hated for only doing what is needed to protect the safety of your workers and the business itself?
True. There are many videos on YouTube with a simple google of Koreans (especially)/Asians, but also of Middle Easterners in inner city stores who do not back down at all to blacks trying to steal. There are videos of them fighting and even shooting blacks for stealing $1 items (and in the process damaging hundreds of dollars worth of items in their store). The black suspects are thrown off guard and in most cases are beaten up pretty badly. I think the store owners do this out of principle, and to show others that they aren’t pushovers. Your typical white American store owner would not engage at all, and would just call the cops. Many Hispanics tend to just call the cops too. But Asians/Arab store owners do not back down to blacks.
Disgusting that the morons blamed the store for this criminal's actions! But given the mentality and mental maturity of those involved-hardly surprising. No better than George "Gangsta" Floyd.
This.
This is reason 8962342 why you don't open stores in the hood.
Yes, its theft...but you do NOT call 911 to report theft, 911 is for emergencies only.
In both Chicago and the town in which I live - we're to call 9-1-1 for those cases, particularly if the person is in the front of the store arguing with the store clerk.
I don't know why you're repeating this when the rest of us, including a cop, are telling you otherwise.
The kid did not call the police because a black person passed a counterfeit bill and refused to return the merchandise. He called the police because a counterfeiter came in the store, passed a counterfeit bill, refused to make the bill good, was hostile and possibly drunk.
It is really sad that the national trend looks at the outside of a person and not the inside.
Floyd passed a phony bill. Whether he knew it or not is a different story but the store saw it as stealing. He was asked to return the merchandise he became angry, the store called the cops. That should be where the stores responsibility ends but not according to the Liberal minds that were cited in the article.
Floyd is responsible for his own death. If you have seen the video featuring the time leading up to his death the Police were actually being very kind to him, asking him politely to get into the back of the cruiser. It wasn't until that impatient bad cop came along and took charge in a sadistic way that the threat to Floyd's life was made real.
The store has ZERO responsibility in Floyd's death yet they had to close and suffer the abuse of misguided protesters that have vandalized it and tried to burn it down.
Floyd shouldn't have been drunk or high and out on the streets. Floyd shouldn't have resisted being detained. The other cops should have intervened to save him. The store is not responsible.
Black people are mad at the wrong people. They should be mad at the bad blacks who are ruining it for the good blacks.
Well, that is your opinion...many do not see it this way.
Plus, if you notice in the article, the store owners say this kid would not have called police, had he known of the 'tension' between these two groups, why do you think they would say that?
The owner of the store said they usually tell the person they can’t come back for a few months. This was a teen who panicked and called 911.
A counterfeit $20 isn’t an emergency.
This is our store policy as well dealing with shoplifting/stealing, we do not call police anymore, managers are actually not permitted to.
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