Black Firefighter Spent His Life Savings To Open A Bar. Then Minneapolis Looters Burned It Down
“I don’t know what we’re going to do,” Korboi Balla told CBS News on Thursday morning while holding back tears. “It hurts, man. It’s not fair, it’s not right. We’ve been working so hard for this place. It’s not just for me, it’s for my family.”
“I’m hearing people say F*** the business they have insurance WELL WE DON’T AND THIS IS ALL OUT OF POCKET,” Twyana Balla wrote. “Let someone come run in your home and loot for the cause then let’s see you be ok with it!”
“Justice for George Floyd but not this kind of justice,” she wrote.
“ I put my family first. I’ve put every dollar I got into this house. There’s a lot of stuff I want, but I prioritized for my family. Every dollar… every dollar I got I put into this house. And I take care of my kids. So, this is devastating for me.”
“They came in. They looted the store. They broke the windows with crowbars. And once they stole everything, they set the whole store on fire. It’s my dad’s business. He’s an 81-year-old man who only had this. My mom passed away three years ago. So, he has nothing. This is the only thing he had. His whole life was here. Everything is gone. When my mom passed away, my dad brought her jewelry, her clothes…because he’s spent most of his lifetime here. They stole all the jewelry, they stole all the clothes, they burned everything down. I don’t think this was about anything political… they were just thieves and animals. They did this to this store and many many more stores. We built a life here but they took everything away from us.”
“At least a half a million dollars. Minimum. No insurance. No way to get it back.“
“If someone does something wrong, you don’t need to make it worse. None of these businesses on this street did anything wrong to you guys.”
“This is a big chunk of change to have to spend or take as a loss in a year when we’ve already taken losses.”
@readywatchthisbitch, please spare us with your empty platitudes. Looters are all scumbags. They are criminal miscreants who overshadow any supposed progress found in peaceful protests. There is absolutely no ground to stand on by justifying their shitty barbaric behavior. Also, more people have been killed so far as a result of these protests and subsequent riots than there were total unarmed black people fatally killed by police in all of 2019. So, take your petty excuses and blow them out your ass.
