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And then, for no reason, people began to hate…[Cup Foods owners sue Minneapolis over lost business at George Floyd Square: Concrete barriers and lawlessness cut their income and crushed their property values, lawsuit alleges., Star Tribune, November 29, 2023]:
The owners of Cup Foods and several other businesses near George Floyd Square are suing the city of Minneapolis, saying that concrete barricades and the lawlessness that flourished within those barriers cut their income and crushed their property values.
The lawsuit accuses Mayor Jacob Frey and other city officials of essentially abandoning the businesses and offering little more than lip service and weak financial help following the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in front of Cup Foods, now known as Unity Foods.
The lawsuit underscores lingering acrimony over the city’s response to the unrest that followed Floyd’s murder; more than three years later, proposed changes to the area around 38th Street and Chicago Avenue, from infrastructure to some form of permanent memorial, are still years off.
The plaintiffs in the suit are Cup Foods Inc.; Menthol Tobacco LLC, which operates inside the corner store; Southside Electronics Inc., which also operates in the store; NMA Investments Inc., which operates out of the same address; and 3759 Chicago Ave. LLC, which owns businesses near the intersection.
The plaintiffs are the longtime owners of the building and the Cup Foods business; more recently they have been leasing the store to the operators of Unity Foods, their attorney said.
The lawsuit, filed earlier this month in Hennepin County, seeks about $1.5 million in damages from its allegation that the city and Frey were negligent and violated the city’s nuisance ordinance and charter.
Because the city itself erected the barricades, which hampered access to the businesses, and because it knew of rampant crime but failed to police the area accordingly — those losses are on the city, the lawsuit reasons.
Casper Hill, a city spokesman, said Tuesday that the city was aware of the suit “but has no comment at this time.”
Ally Peters, a spokeswoman for Frey, gave the following statement: “We did everything possible to open the street safely amid very tenuous circumstances. When we finally did open the street, the City did so in a planned way where no one was hurt and the area remained safe for residents.”
The city’s approach to the intersection, which organically became a hub for racial justice demonstrations and a much-visited destination, has varied since Floyd’s murder in May 2020. The suit alleges the city allowed a “No Go Zone” for police officers in the area immediately around the intersection, allowing crime to thrive.
The city removed a number of concrete barriers in June 2021, but Michael Healey, an attorney representing the businesses, said the financial losses continued through this year.
ORDER IT NOW“Instead of helping Plaintiffs achieve racial equity and economic prosperity, the City consciously decided to allow concrete barricades to surround Cup Foods for over one year, which economically devastated a minority-owned business in a minority-dominant neighborhood,” the suit says. “The City actively hindered Plaintiffs’ economic success and jeopardized the safety within and surrounding Plaintiffs’ businesses.”
The city offered $50,000 in forgivable loans to businesses in the area. In 2021, Cup Foods took one such loan, “but that amount is not nearly enough to compensate Cup Foods for the economic turmoil,” the suit contends.
The value of the properties plummeted from $2 million before Floyd’s murder to less than $200,000 last year, the suit adds.
Healey said the city was served with the complaint a year ago, a move that typically offers the parties a chance to settle before going to court. No settlement was reached.
Correction: An earlier version of this story mischaracterized the current ownership of the building where Cup Foods operated. The building’s longtime owners, who are among plaintiffs suing the city of Minneapolis, now leases the Cup Foods space to the operators of Unity Foods.
This epoch is ending. We all know it.
Our job wasn’t to vote our way of this mess, but to survive it.
Nature is starting to heal.
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Should that cashier have called the cops over that fake $20?
Unfortunately, little to nothing will come of this, just like accountability for the perps of the scamdemic. Clown world is a sick place indeed and Americans just don’t have the will or wherewithal to take the system down – at least at this point in time. As PK says, we just need to survive. And as for nature healing itself, I’m on the skeptical side…
Worthless assed, no good nig-grows, the gifts that just keep on giving. I hope that city and the low life’s that run it go into a level of default that see’s them never recover.
Defund the cops, we don’t need them. Okay, done! A few months later. Where are the cops, crime is out of control. Karma is a beeotch!
Of course suing the city means suing the entire remaining tax base, because that’s who pays.
Not the Africans in America.
The cost of social justice, letting blacks do whatever they want, is expensive. Yeah, people there with skin in the game like business owners will push back but it won’t change anything. The blacks are in control.
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I just saw the walgreens xmas commercial on jew tube. yikes.
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Mayor Jacob Frey…TRIBE?
2020 was a CIA/Military color revolution of the United States. The CIA and Military, together with certain NGOs and non-profits do this to other targeted countries from time to time as directed from the brass. Even the politicized gangs like Antifa, are something we have helped set up in other nations with other names. Chavez resurrected the political gangs several years ago in Venezuela that were allowed to perform some crimes as long as they kept opponents to the regime from being able to coalesce (meet) politically in certain areas where they needed the votes (like the current regime here needs Oregon and Washington). There is a color revolution expert at the State Department named George Kent who was probably tasked with arranging friendly billionaires to help privately foment the necessary NGOs and oversee the infrastructure of 2020 back in 2017. This was prepared for 3 years.
They will keep their Antifa creation. I guarantee you they have either undercover military or CIA or just plain feds embedded in Antifa as much as they do phony right-wing groups like Patriot Front.
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Interesting that the Star Tribune is still pushing the ridiculous narrative that George Floyd was murdered when it’s been made abundantly clear that he overdosed on drugs. I wonder if they pander to the mob by saying he was murdered in order to avoid hordes of screeching idiots protesting outside their offices or whether they’re woke leftist idiots who believe the lie? In either case, they don’t qualify as a news source- more like a propaganda outlet.
A biz named “Menthol Tobacco” – too funny.
This isn’t even the black part of town. That would be North Minneapolis, which saw little rioting– nothing to loot! South is the poster child for actual diversity– just about every corner of the world is represented.
Never mind the blacks. The white leadership has to pay, and dearly. Let’s hope this lawsuit is a start. And Antifa– just as later in Kenosha, many, perhaps most, of the rioters were lefty infiltrators, all ready to go in every city.
The New American argued 50 years ago that riots are never spontaneous. Just as true now.
Should that multiple time felon, amatuer porn star, absentee father deadbeat junkie have ingested 4 times the lethal amount of fentynal? The answer to your question and mine is yes.
We wazzzz kangs keep exposing these repugnant morally defective lowlife’s. They are diabolical…
God bless the great European race 🙏
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No, let it go. And don’t bother enforcing shoplifting under $1000 or expired tags or expired licenses or traffic laws or parking regulations, etc., etc.
That’s what we get with blacks.
2 Girls One Cup Foods
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Friends and family members are reeling from the loss of a musician and New Jersey native killed in Philadelphia over Thanksgiving weekend.
Carl Mueller III, 29, died of a stab wound to the chest on Nov. 24, according to the Philadelphia Tribune. There have been no arrests, and his death remains under investigation.
Paki cashier
They have agents planted in Antifa, who do you think runs the organization! That’s the difference between the agents in “Right Wing” organizations and agents in Antifa. In the Proud Boys they were there to document and provide evidence against them like a mob informant. In Antifa they’re the shot callers, they set the directive and the clueless civilian foot soldiers follow their orders. When an incident goes sideways they do their best to minimize the fallout for their side; many times quietly behind closed doors of judge’s offices.
Yes,the weeping willow is all Jew.
WHICH minority owns the business?? I need to know if I should laugh (at the tiny hats), or laugh HARDER (at the NAPAs).
Sue the pants off that be Jew mayor Frey and the rest of the corrupt Minneapolis officials. The Jews have destroyed Minneapolis-St.Paul. Hopefully this lawsuit starts a nation-wide trend. Enough cucking to the violent negro man-child. Make it costly.
At first glance, I was sympathetic to this business-owner’s plight…
But then I read the above-quoted paragraph and now I can say I officially don’t give a damn.
Let them wallow in their wretched”food desert.”
They will be out of business soon if FJB has his way.
-Agitprop from corporate media? Check!
-NGOs dumping money$ on activists? Check!
-Militant protesters taking it to the streets? Check!
-Support from major Regime figures? Check!
-Law enforcement subverted? Check!
-Color Revolution? Check & check!
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adolph sez
As Trump said,they’re not sending their best.
They’re sending armies. The few mommas and kiddies seem to be a diversion. A whole busload of “refugees” debarked in a city nearby and all I saw were guys. Roughly the age men are when they get drafted or enlist. The Biden regime is trying to tell us something
and the jew who gave us archie bunker and abortion as a joke dead…
LEAR DEAD IN LOS ANGELES
SITCOM GENIUS; CITIZEN ACTIVIST
CHANGED CULTURE / via drudge which is a leftist site nowadays
Completely agree. Below is a photo from the home page of Cup Foods website. They market to the customer base that is causing all the problems. I suspect the “minority owned” Cup Foods is a bunch of pakis/patels looking for a payday. They deserve no sympathy.
https://menufyproduction.imgix.net/637394952795658670+300209.png?auto=compress,format&fit=max&w=1024&h=1024
Letfy infiltrators who have some hidden skeletons in their closets like Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum.
They are having to reconsider getting rid of flavored tobaccos because it so-called disproportionately impacts blacks who overwhelmingly choose menthol cigarettes. If it was whites who smoked menthols, they would have been outlawed already.
do you know about Chobani yogurt?
yup
They did call the cops. And the cops came.
The blacks and the Somalians are the ones destroying Minneapolis. Visit there sometime.
Obviously not. In the future, get one of those counterfeit markers and don’t hand over a product without checking the currency.
This is why non-Whites don’t belong in White countries. All of the non-Whites involved are a cancer.
Did the mayor control the rioters?