BLACK LIVES MATTER RIOTERS RANSACK ROCHESTER, NY:
Rochester, NY is the latest hub of antia/ BLM rioting as obnoxious swarms of antifa and BLM activists disturbed the peace, climbed on people’s homes, vandalized businesses, assaulted people, including police officers, committed arson, and generally engaged in free-form lawlessness.
Back in March, a black man, Daniel Prude, was reportedly on PCP and running around naked in the streets, and as police attempted to control him with a “spit mask” and hold, he stopped breathing. He was revived but died seven days later after be taken off of life support.
The rioting hordes learned of the tragic incident on Wednesday when the video was released, and although Rochester mayor Lovely Warren (D) announced the suspension of the officers involved, the mobs took to the streets to assault, harass, annoy, and frighten innocent people, apparently intending to win them over.
Video and more details at link. On Twitter, Declan Ganley of the Rivada Networks telecommunications company writes, “The contempt for those that took risks to set up these small businesses. These small restaurants, these are not big corporations. The contempt for those having a Friday evening meal. The contempt for those working in these establishments for an honest living. The indecency.”
Of course, as far left In Defense of Looting author Vicky Osterweil told NPR during her puff-piece interview, “It’s actually a Republican myth that has, over the last 20 years, really crawled into even leftist discourse: that the small-business owner must be respected, that the small-business owner creates jobs and is part of the community. But that’s actually a right-wing myth.”
This is a similar reaction to fellow leftist Michael Moore when asked why he wasn’t speaking in small, independently owned bookstores:
When asked by a reporter from the Arcata Eye in 2002 why he wasn’t speaking at independent bookstores rather than at corporate chains, he exploded in a tirade that revealed his willingness to have his principles—in this case, his distrust of corporate power—take a backseat to his personal vengefulness. “You know in my town the small businesses that everyone wanted to protect? They were the people that supported all the right-wing groups,” he ranted. “They were the Republicans in town, they were in Kiwanis, the Chamber of Commerce—people that kept the town all white. The small hardware salesman, the small clothing store sales persons, Jesse the Barber who signed his name three different times on three different petitions to recall me from the school board. Fuck all these small businesses—fuck ’em all. Bring in the chains.”
Of course, sufficient destruction and anarchy in cities is what will drive out both small and large businesses: Those ‘Food Deserts’ May Become Food Wastelands.