The shame of it is that not everyone in Seattle voted for this, but they're certainly paying the price for their neighbors' do-goodism anyway
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Olga Sagan will close her Piroshky Piroshky Bakery’s downtown Seattle location because of crime and concern for her employees’ safety, the bakery announced Monday.
Someone was shot near the bakery the week before the announcement, and there were people openly using drugs in front of the entrance Saturday, blocking Sagan from opening the bakery, she told The Seattle Times. Local police did not respond to her calls, and private security was unable to move the drug users, according to the Times.
Sagan said she gets shouted at and witnesses open drug use on her walk to work in downtown Seattle no matter which route she takes. “I really don’t want to wait until my employees get shot, or my customers get shot,” she said, according to the Times. “I feel it’s not far-fetched right now.”
While business at another location has rebounded to pre-pandemic levels, sales at the downtown location are still down 85%, according to the Times.
“How many shootings do we need to have to realize this is an active emergency in downtown Seattle?” she said in an interview, the Times reported. “The streets of downtown have been abandoned by the government.”
Here’s what the street in front of her store looks like:
