My research about some photos are pretty good...I own a photo business in Europe. Word gets out fairly easy. You a firefighter ? Trust me...don't answer the above. wrbtrader
I would pay to watch you shit yourself when some BLM girlscouts walked past your house https://www.girlscoutshop.com/NYPENN-Pathways-Black-Lives-Matter-BLM-Fun-Patch
Let's see how business owners are making out in Minneapolis... Oh they allow your building to deliberately be burnt down and then stick you with the bill. Fine Democratic city you have there! Minneapolis salon owner says rioters burned her building to the ground and then the city stuck her with a $200K bill https://www.theblaze.com/news/minneapolis-salon-owner-government-no-help The owner of a Minneapolis salon set on fire during riots over George Floyd's death in May, said recently that rather than helping her rebuild her business, state and local officials opted to tear down the building and stick her with the bill. POLL: Have you already made up your mind as to whom you are going to vote for? "I haven't gotten anything, not a penny," Flora Westbrooks, the owner of Flora's Hair Designs, told "Fox & Friends" on Thursday after host Peter Doocy asked her how much aid she had received from the government. Instead, the city of Minneapolis tore down the building and charged Westbrooks for it — at a whopping cost of $200,000. "[The] bill is going to be over $200,000 just for tearing things down and putting up a fence there, so it's going to be lots of money that I can't afford that I don't have," she said. In a statement provided to Fox News regarding the project, city media relations manager Casper Hill said that the building was at risk of collapsing and was torn down to "protect the public." Westbrooks found that explanation quite rich as she recalled there was no protection for her building as riots raged on in late May. She said she "didn't see any police at all patrol [her] area" on the night her business was torched. "I just feel like I'm alone and I'm sure other business owners feel the same as I do," Westbrooks added during the interview. According to a GoFundMe page set to help her rebuild, Westbrooks operated the business for more than four decades before it was burned to the ground. The page describes the business as "a pillar on Broadway Avenue where men, women and children came to get beautified and had history lessons from elders in the community. "Flora has exhausted all of her energy and savings in building the community, creating jobs for entrepreneurs and aiding in generational wealth," it continued. At the time of publication, more than $150,000 had been raised on the GoFundMe page. During the interview Thursday. Westbrooks remained steadfast in her plans to rebuild, despite the injury from rioters and then state and local government. "My plan is to rebuild my business," she said. "I built that business myself and I just want my business back. That's all I want, to just get my life back. I want my life back." TheBlaze reached out for comment from Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey's office, but did not receive a reply.
That's disgusting. I'm glad she's getting help from GoFundMe, but I wish some big dog litigator would step up pro-bono and stick it to the city. Threaten to drag it out forever and let them see how much it will really cost. Win or lose.
Amusing -- she doesn't want anyone to "loot" her book. In other news NPR backpedals on supporting "In Defense of Looting" after broad criticism. NPR issues mea culpa, says 'In Defense of Looting' interview 'did not serve NPR's audience' The interview was widely criticized https://www.foxnews.com/media/npr-mea-culpa-defense-looting-interview NPR issued a mea culpa for its publication of a much-criticized interview with the author of a new book entitled, “In Defense of Looting.” NPR Public Editor Kelly McBride said in a newsletter Thursday that the interview “did not serve NPR’s audience” and was “wrong about recent events.” “Publishing false information leaves the audience misinformed. On top of that, news consumers are watching closely to see who is challenged and who isn’t. In this case a book author with a radical point of view far to the left was allowed to spread false information,” McBride wrote. The author of the new book, Vicky Osterweil, made many statements without fact-checking, or push back from journalist Natalie Escobar, who was interviewing her. Osterweil opened the interview with a contradictory explanation of what looting is. “When I use the word looting, I mean the mass expropriation of property, mass shoplifting during a moment of upheaval or riot. That's the thing I'm defending. I'm not defending any situation in which property is stolen by force," Osterweil said. Osterweil later discounted looting as harmless because stores are insured. “Most stores are insured; it's just hurting insurance companies on some level. It's just money. It's just property. It's not actually hurting any people,” she said. The damage to private property has been massive during the summer’s riots, and insurance hasn’t always covered the bill. According to the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, where at least 400 businesses were damaged, most insurance policies limited reimbursements from $25,000 to $50,000, but contractors' bids have been between $200,000 and $300,000. She also claimed that people don’t travel to other cities to riot and loot. “One of the ones that's been very powerful, that's both been used by Donald Trump and Democrats, has been the outside agitator myth, that the people doing the riots are coming from the outside,” Osterweil said. Many readers quickly pointed out that the “mass expropriation of property” requires something being “stolen by force.” The data on this claim isn’t certain, but it has been refuted by some police departments around the country. Metropolitan Police Department Chief Peter Newsham said that most of those arrested in Washington were from out of state. “From Thursday until early this morning, the large majority of arrestees, over 70 percent, are not from the District of Columbia. So they appear to be folks who are coming into our city, our peaceful city, with the intent of destroying property and hurting folks," Newsham said this week. The police department in Kenosha, Wis., where protests swept the city after the shooting of Jacob Blake, said that 102 out of 175 people who were arrested for looting and rioting were from outside the city. Later, Osterweil seemed to glorify looting. “Looting strikes at the heart of property, of whiteness and of the police,” Osterweil said. “And also, it provides people with an imaginative sense of freedom and pleasure, and helps them imagine a world that could be. And I think that's a part of it that doesn't really get talked about -- that riots and looting are experienced as sort of joyous and liberatory.” After outrage erupted over the interview, NPR added a new introduction to the piece and a note that says the "original version of this story, which is an interview with an author who holds strong political views and ideas, did not provide readers enough context for them to fully assess some of the controversial opinions discussed." McBride said the editor of Code Switch, the section of NPR where the interview appeared, told her the interview was fact-checked, but they "should have done more." "Casual observers might conclude that NPR is more interested in fact-checking conservative viewpoints than liberal viewpoints," McBride notes in closing. "Or possibly, that bias on the part of NPR staff interferes with their judgment when spotting suspect information."