Posted on 05/29/2020 5:25:06 PM PDT by grundle
A black firefighter who invested his life savings into opening up a sports bar in Minneapolis was reduced to tears after looters destroyed his life’s work.
Korboi Balla originally planned to open his bar in March, but those plans had to be put on hold due to the coronavirus crisis. Balla had been gearing up to finally open his bar after Minnesota gave the go-ahead for restaurants to begin reopening on June 1.
But by Friday morning, Balla’s bar was little more than a pile of bricks after protests of the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died in Minneapolis police custody on Monday, led to widespread rioting and looting in the city.
“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.”
While CBS reporters were interviewing Balla on Thursday morning, looters broke back into his bar to try to break into his safe.
“As we were standing in front of the restaurant, people were in the back trying to steal the safe!” Balla’s wife, Twyana Balla, wrote in a Facebook post on Thursday. “This just happened an hour ago in broad daylight!”
Twyana Balla added in the post that she and her husband do not have insurance for their business.
“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.
Her husband’s restaurant had been reduced to a pile of bricks by Friday morning, Twyana Balla said in a video posted to Facebook.
“There must have been an explosion because the whole front part of the building is gone,” she said.
Balla launched a GoFundMe campaign on Thursday to raise funds to rebuild his bar. The crowdfunding campaign has brought in over $173,000 for the small business owner in its first 24 hours.
More than 170 businesses in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area have been damaged or looted since Floyd’s death on Monday, police told the Twin Cities Pioneer Press.
So much easier to destroy than to build
Especially when it’s not your hard work that built it.
He didn’t build that. ~ Says the left.
Sort of like the woman who survived a plane crash only to get run down by an emergency vehicle.
Any insurance?
Many policies exclude riot and insurrection.
They said they had no insurance.
When we come to Minneapolis to visit our good friends (who live very close to all this) I will go to this Bar and gladly support it (even though we are Packer Owners!)!
Don’t rebuild anywhere near little Mogadishu
His GFM is at $385,000. Had a goal of $100,000.
Make that $365,000.
From what I’ve read George Soros had agitators bussed to start the riots.
Thanks for your support but. ....packers suck. ..KC Rules. ...
Amen.
Not protesters, TERRORISTS!
Sir, may I strongly suggest that you take the money that is raised and reestablish yourr bar in a suburb far far away. You sir owe none of these thugs anything. Come to Chesterfield county, you will not have that bullshit here. Just get the hell out pf that blue state hell. Also, watch who you vote for, PLEASE!
I don’t understand why they burn and pillage their own neighborhoods and businesses. It makes NO sense.
the last thing the ghetto needs is another bar
Oh, look at the large black woman in Minneapolis spray painting a wall. Use rubber bullets. Cause them P.A.I.N!!!!
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