Later that evening he was watching the CCTV camera feed coming from inside the store when he saw 20-30 people break down the front doors with baseball bats and start smashing everything inside the store and stealing all the products.“I was watching everything happening in front of my eyes. My son, who is 5-years-old, unfortunately watched what happened and saw my frustration, my wife was crying. It was one of the pains I will never forget,” Botros told NBC News.
Botros employs three people at the smoke shop, all African American, who he says are “now without a job.” Botros himself is an immigrant from Egypt and said, “I was with the protesters with my heart, because as an immigrant and minority I feel some profiling and racial bias.” However, he called the looting “unbelievable” and added that the people who are looting stores are “opportunists” who “have nothing to do with the cause, they don’t know anything about it.”
Botros said he reached out to the Los Angeles Police Department to file a formal police report, but has not heard back at this time. He is waiting to clean up his store until the police survey the damage, but believes the loss of property and inventory amounts to around $200,000.to raise money to rebuild the business and has raised just over $4,000 at this point.
“I’m watching peaceful protesters trying to get the government to change what needs to be changed, but it will never be changed by destroying business and taking my livelihood and what I worked hard for,” Botros added.
Most people do not want to see violence, but peaceful demonstrations in the United States will only become the material for the government to promote 'democracy', and will not become a lesson on human rights issues. It will soon be forgotten.
The only way to stop this is to let them know that the penality for this is death!! Shot'em if you catch them looting ! red yellow black or white!!
The looters are like Jews in Germany who helped the Nazis gather up and murder other Jews
As a business owner, this is just devastating to see. My prayers for you and your family. Unfortunately, I can not offer more as our business has been closed since March. We wish you well.
That’s the issue, lumping everybody in the same pot ,looters are looters , it has nothing to do with protesting, that’s what people dont get .these people are taking advantage of the current situation
These are not the protesters. Thieves and instigators. Why are the police attacking reporters and ignoring criminals?
Send in the military to end the destruction of people’s livelihoods by the careless looters.
Yes, the whites who were burning, looting, and spray painting have been exposed.
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