Quote Originally Posted by dmc View Post
...What about the store owners who have been looted? Maybe they could go after some of robs buddies who he thinks are going to get a windfall from all this.... .
This article

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/m...8f2e50051.html

talks about a store owners who now nightly is, with his family, setting up with guns to protect his own store, the police can't protect him.

Yesterday I heard a radio interview with the attorney hired by the market where Gentle Giant Mike Brown performed his robbery. The lawyer was acting as spokesperson and wanted to get the message out to the world that this store owner has done business in Ferguson for 5 years and they are part of the community. The did not call the cops on Mike Brown, a customer called. Nor did they voluntarily turn over store video footage to police. I'm reading between the lines this message and think it means "don't kill us! don't harm us! we didn't turn him in, we aren't snitches!"

What happens in places like this is that business owner move on, places like Ferguson go downhill and residents in the community are left without commercial services. And then there is moaning and complaints about food desserts and etc.