So it turns at the epicenter of where our country went mad in the summer of 2020 isn’t ground zero for a thriving commercial district…[Businesses near George Floyd Square sue Minneapolis for $30M in damages, CBS News, November 14, 2024]:
Several business owners at the struggling corner where George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020 are suing the city to demand it take over their properties and compensate them.
The owners of the Cup Foods convenience store and other businesses operating near 38th Street and Chicago Avenue argue that the city’s failure to address deterioration and crime in the neighborhood has ruined their businesses and constitutes an unlawful taking of their property without just compensation, the Minnesota Star Tribune reported Thursday. They’re seeking $30 million in damages.
The area, now known as George Floyd Square, has become a place of pilgrimage for social justice supporters from across the country, and the store has renamed itself Unity Foods. But business owners say they haven’t benefitted, while activists and officials remain divided over how to transform the intersection while keeping it as a permanent memorial.
The legal action, filed last week in Hennepin County District Court, argues that the businesses have lost revenue, real estate value, reputation, and tenant and rental income. It argues that the city’s decisions led to higher crime and created a “no go zone†for police in the area. It replaces an earlier lawsuit by the businesses that was dismissed two months ago.
A city spokesperson said in a statement that while it can’t comment on pending litigation, the city “understands the challenges that residents and businesses have confronted in the wake of George Floyd’s murder.“
The pendulum will swing back. So many people across the nation were negatively impacted by what happened in May of 2020 in Minneapolis, not far from where the fabled Mall of America is now a Mecca for Somali refugees/migrants clad in Burkas. It’s a No Go Zone for White Americans. As the insanity of that summer slips further into the rear view mirror of history, we live through the consequences of saying in a loud declarative voice, “no,” to the demands of blacks and their white allies.
That’s fine. There was no other way but to endure through the madness. 38th and Chicago in Minneapolis is where MLK’s Dream died, and where so many White American’s woke up the nightmare our nation had become.