So the exodus begins. Rioters maybe thinking, “Good! Stick it to the man!” What they don’t think about is that might have been a friend or their neighbor’s job. Somebody they might have loved or looked up to. Something they may have enjoyed doing and it kept a roof over their heads and food in their bellies. They might have had kids. How many rioters were local to the area? How many were bussed in so they didn’t have to worry about their destruction?
It seems rioters are welcomed in Dem controlled areas
At least that’s how the owner saw it. If rioters are welcomed, he doesn’t want to be a part of it.
“They don’t care about my business,” Kris Wyrobek, owner of 7-Sigma Inc., told the local paper. “They didn’t protect our people. We were all on our own.”
Wyrobek watched a business burn to the ground. “The fire engine was just sitting there, but they wouldn’t do anything.”
The damage estimates are obscene
It’s a dubious honor to be the second worst riot in American history. “The city’s first survey of property damage shows that nearly 1,000 commercial properties in Minneapolis were damaged during the riots, including 52 businesses that were completely destroyed and 30 other locations that sustained severe damage,” according to The Star Tribune. “Owners and insurance experts estimate the costs of the damage could exceed $500 million. That would make the Twin Cities riots the second-costliest civil disturbance in U.S. history, trailing only those in Los Angeles in 1992, which were also sparked by racial tensions with police and had $1.4 billion in damages in today’s dollars.”
Insurance companies aren’t going to continue to insure that. The risk is too great. So no, just because a business has insurance doesn’t mean the owner can just collect and rebuild. Wyrobek never considered moving out – til now.
Some of those rioters can drive. How many of them have had accidents? Has their vehicle insurance gone up as a result? Well, the same lesson has been lost. If a rioter has too many problems operating a motor vehicle, it becomes harder to insure them. The same thing happens with a business. If it’s operating in a high risk area, the insurance may become unaffordable.
Dems are embracing the rioters
The focus is all on appeasing the rioters. Democrats don’t understand that this temper tantrum should not continue. We’re supposed to understand them, why they do what they do. That’s all well and good that we understand them, but the behavior cannot continue. You can’t keep destroying things because you feel justified, you feel it’s deserved.
The vote to disband the police department is veto proof. Wyrobek will have zero protection against those who would tear his business down again.
A small section of your tax base is leaving, Minneapolis
That might sink in when your paycheck shrinks, Lisa Bender.
“We’re here because we hear you. We are here today because George Floyd was killed by the Minneapolis Police. We are here because here in Minneapolis and in cities across the United States it is clear that our existing system of policing and public safety is not keeping our communities safe,” Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender noted, “Our efforts at incremental reform have failed. Period. Our commitment is to do what is necessary to keep every single member of our community safe and to tell the truth that the Minneapolis Police are not doing that. Our commitment is to end our city’s toxic relationship with the Minneapolis Police Department, to end policing as we know it, and to recreate systems of public safety that actually keep us safe.”
Ms. Bender doesn’t even want homeowners there
She thought people who have homes were coming from a “place of privilege” and deserved to be broken into, robbed and burned.
That’s another section of taxes that may literally go up in smoke. People who want to leave can’t. The house won’t sell with property values plummeting.
Rebuilding doesn’t make sense if this is going to happen again
Mayor Frey has announced a Minneapolis Forward: Community Now Coalition to get input on what the community needs. But Frey said it would be “premature” to talk about how the city will help. So it’s all up to the local businesses that can afford to stay.
If I had business there and was robbed and burned I would be leaving State and going to one the POS Demorats do not run
I hope they do…
I would NEVER own anything in a Democrat held state…we’ve seen time and time again at how they run their cities into the ground, and then like the governor of MN wants the federal government to come in and ‘bail them out’ of the mess they created by allowing riots to take place.
The Minneapolis police should go on strike until the *citizens* ask them to come back. While on strike, they can moonlight by getting private security jobs.
Democrat Mayors, and Governors, unfortunately have ZERO common sense ! They are ruining their cities ,and you will see a LOT of businesses moving out, because they know that the Leaders DON’T have their back. What sense does it make to stay in an area, where you have zero protection, and many of these cities plan on defunding their Police Department. Of course that is ANOTHER stupid move by the Democrats, and makes the problems even WORSE !
Democrats are Communists.
Democrats & Soros are paying these domestic terrorists to destroy America.
NEVER VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT!
I wish that the news would use more appropriate description in the use of words. Decimate means destroy 10% of an item. That leaves 90% in tact. Wipe out, obliterate, destroy, etc. are a better description.
Perhaps if the Democrat controlled cities cripple or dismantle police forces, the people will decide to do the policing themselves.
Sadly, that will mean vigilante law. What will these cities do if the people literally start hanging criminals for non-capital crimes? Will the cities take the side of criminals and declare war on law abiding citizens who decide that if government can’t or won’t protect them then it’s up to them to do it themselves?
What then? Will the law abiding citizens decide it are the city leaders who are the real threat and hang them?
It is something to consider…
I don’t blame the business owner at all for moving after those rioters burned his business. I’d take my insurance proceeds and go elsewhere… Especially after the stupid city council wants to abandon/do away with the police department. Why would a bunch of monkey democrats want to bring that upon their citizens. Unbelievable!
And I will bet the insurance companies are going to raise the rates for these businesses who were burned out and destroyed.. WHY would anyone want to rebuild in the same place where the Mayor doesn’t care about these business owners and their businesses…
Demoncrats do as their told. No thought process to it.
We had term after term of democrats voted into our near by city and the streets are empty and not because of riots. The people simply left their houses that were in what became bad neighborhoods and moved into our suburbs run by republicans. The houses and business buildings became abandoned and the city tried to sell them and most ended up brought by people in other states who never upgraded or sold the property. Thy city has street after street of boarded up houses and buildings used by the druggies and empty land where the city had to swallow the demolishing of what was left. Guess what, this last election the city had a chance to have a republican mayor but still voted in a democrat by the welfare residents (we call the city the welfare city). So still nothing is happening except I have learned thanks to the virus I don’t need to really shop in the city any more. I found out the taxpaying residents and those providing jobs had moved out here, we even have concerts in our huge amphitheater on our water front. Amazing, too, that the so called peace makers showed up in the city demanding the city that is broke do as they say. I have no idea why they didn’t show up on our streets demanding we give them everything. It might have something to do with the nasty sheriff we have, his men show up within minutes at a problem and stop the problem. I can testify to that. He keeps getting voted in too and the women’s organizations in town raised money to buy the unit vests and special phones and cameras and a brand new police car to make the number of police cars twelve now.
Good Job!
I hope some people are doing some research on Ms. Bender to see where she lives, what kind of protection she’s afforded at home and at work, and whether she’s ever called for help (911).
I can’t fathom why any business would establish itself in a Democrat controlled city or state in the first place. Taxes will invariably be higher in Democrat strongholds. And, history has shown that every problem that arises becomes more severe in Democrat controlled areas. If all of the businesses packed up and left, they would probably save the cost of relocation within a year or two just through the lower taxes and the reduction in regulations. The only kind of businesses which make sense to stay in a Democrat location are those that involve mineral recovery-oil, gas, coal, minerals, etc., businesses where the product is only available in that location. Democrats believe they and their government are important and the only useful function of citizens and businesses is to supply the government with income. It should be the other way around-the citizens and businesses are important and the only useful function of government is to facilitate the needs of the people and businesses.
ALL businesses who were destroyed, looted and burned out in these democRAT run cities, should ALL move out of the… relocate… YOU know that the insurance to cover these businesses are going to go up now because of these looters and rioters… go where it is safer to be.. let the cities run by democRAT lunatics collapse… Leave them without…
If I had a business that was destroyed because the mayor or governor who allowed these looters and rioters to destroy these businesses, I’d be gone …They should have been stopping the insanity and not allowed these lunatics to take over the city and destroy it… they cared NOTHING about the business owners at all.. so WHY would you want to rebuild in the same place…
Democrat Politicians Are The Scum in this Country ,They all should be voted out of Office And some should be Jailed
100% agree!
Start with Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler, Mad Maxine, Schumer, Cuomo, NYC Mayor De BlahBlah & the Democrat governors & mayors who are supporting this violence across America.
The DemonRatts had 4 Days to CONDEMN the Rioting, Violence and Looting in these DemonRatt Controlled Cities , Not one of them Acknowledged or said one Word ! SO anyone who supports Chaos and Anarchy, just wait until they arrive to BURN Down your Homes and Property !
Move to a city that is run by Republicans that believe in LAW 7 ORDER !!!!! Need to prosecute the Demorat scumbags for allowing the lawless actions to happen in their areas !! They always like to destroy OTHER peoples propertys !