![]() And I think everyone is about to see a lot more information. So what you're really looking at right now- whose fault is it that Breonna Taylor's dead? Mitch McConnell, Daniel Cameron, Mayor Greg Fisher, those are three major players. And that someone was given orders by someone above them. But ultimately, they were given orders by someone above them. And, yes, you do have officers who were incredibly irresponsible, and did not take their duty seriously, and acted in a terrible manner. It's not time to try and appeal to both sides, to try and placate everyone. As a business owner, I feel like it is time for every business to take a stance, to make their values very well known and heard. Everyone has a responsibility to do the most that they possibly can to change the way things are done fundamentally. I think this issue of systemic and blatant racism is everyone's issue. We all knew as soon as they started putting up barricades what the results were going to be. So they already knew what the results were. Because they barricaded the entire downtown two days before. But there were no actual charges regarding Breonna Taylor being murdered in her house. There was a charge of one of them shooting into a neighbor's home. However, when the results came out last Wednesday, which happened on my birthday- it was, like, the worst day ever- there was no charges in the Breonna situation against the officers. The marches and the protests do not negatively affect my business whatsoever. ![]() And two weeks after the riots, we reopened the bar, no problems. So within a week, my entire patio was piled with all kinds of donations.Ī lot of young people, the live streamers, they are so committed to not letting people forget about what happened, not letting all of this get swept under the rug. ![]() ![]() For that first week right after the riots, it became immediately apparent that if I can't be open, I can, at the very least, support the protesters and be a hub for their supplies. And so that definitely drew a hard line in the sand, I'm sure, in every city where there were riots between the people and the business owners who believe that destruction of property is the worst thing ever and those on the other side of the line that believe people are more important than property.Īnd so you definitely are now seeing businesses take a stance on one side or the other. You know, no one, I think, even got injured that night, to my knowledge. And they occurred mainly downtown, mainly on the corner where my businesses are located. We went to, like, a Thursday night protest, went into Friday night riots.Īnd in my opinion, that was the only night that we have ever experienced riots. When I heard about Breonna Taylor and what happened to her- because I heard about it months after it happened. ![]() And because of COVID, there just has not been any tourism at all.Īnd then two weeks after restaurants were allowed to reopen is when the George Floyd situation occurred, which brought to light the Breonna Taylor incident. Because all the businesses downtown- in any downtown city- really rely on tourism. So everything changed when COVID hit, for everybody, especially here downtown, which is where my businesses are located. And I own a tiki bar called the Limbo and a cafe that's about to open called Riot Cafe. OLIVIA ROSE GRIFFIN: My name's Olivia Rose Griffin. Until Black Lives Matter, no lives matter. It is time for every business to say, Black Lives Matter. And no longer should a business be neutral, or be Switzerland, or have no political affiliation. She feels that every business has to "take a stance" on the issues that matter. But Griffin says that's nothing compared to lives being lost. The coronavirus pandemic and Breonna Taylor protests have brought the local economy to a near standstill. Olivia Rose Griffin, owner of the Limbo, a tiki bar in downtown Louisville, Ky., likened the last several months to slow-motion whiplash. ![]()
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