After raising bail for the rioters who destroyed minority businesses, Kampallawalla urges a federal bailout for minority businesses
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AFTERMATH
Twitter users were quick to compare Harris’ post to one she made in June, a tweet in which she threw her support behind protesters “on the ground in Minnesota.”
“If you’re able to, chip in now to the @MNFreedomFund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota,” Harris tweeted on June 1.
Kampalla might have, but didn’t, read this article in USA Today about who her rioter friends were harming.
MINNEAPOLIS – Brandy Moore likened the charred remains of her south Minneapolis clothing store and recording studio to the pangs for equality that minorities here feel.
Smoke continued to waft in the air 24 hours after people protesting the death of George Floyd burned Moore's storefront and several others along Lake Street.
"My business burned down two days ago. You see the flames? It's still going," Moore, 41, said Sunday. "That flame down in people's soul? It's still going. They want justice."
She is among dozens of Minneapolis and St. Paul business owners, small and large, trying to rebuild after fiery riots and demonstrations in the Twin Cities on Thursday and Friday. Her company, Levels, which she owns with business partner Daniel Johnson, also has a St. Paul location that remains undamaged. The venture is Moore's "baby."
Moore, a black woman, said she started the business from the trunk of her car once she left a job with Minneapolis Public Schools in 2011 to pursue her passion for fashion and music.
It had been opened for five years before people broke in Friday and started a fire that destroyed the business and several adjacent stores. When she was alerted to the break-in, Moore went to Lake Street and watched nearly a decade of work collapse into the concrete.
