At a little past midnight on Saturday as smoke billowed and flames rose from the tops of a nearby bank and a post office building, Minneapolis grocery store owner Mohammad Abdi knew he had a critical business decision to make.
FILE PHOTO: Owner of Tawakal Halal Grocery store walks outside his store following the protests against the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., May 30, 2020. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
“I didn’t yell, I stayed calm. I told them that I didn’t do anything to them. And they left,” he added. It is a testament, he said, to the tightly knit community of residents from his native east African nation. The death of the man, George Floyd, has sparked outrage and violent protests in other U.S. cities, including New York and Atlanta even after the officer, Derek Chauvin, was fired and on Friday arrested and charged with murder and manslaughter.
“I can do nothing, but everything else is something. I have four kids so I have a lot of excuses. But I can’t, this is my city,” said Lynn Fields, who lived in Minneapolis before moving to St. Paul, a city 10 miles to the east, as she helped board up Tawakal Halal Grocery late on Saturday afternoon.
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