Black woman slams looters for destroying her New York store – Daily Mail

An elderly black woman has slammed looters saying they ‘lied’ when they said Black Lives Matter and telling them to ‘get a job’ after her Brooklyn store was destroyed in this week’s riots over George Floyd’s death. 

Shocking footage posted on social media shows the distraught New Yorker blasting the actions of rioters as she stands in front of her shell of a store with its front now exposed and wires seen dangling down from the ceiling.

‘The problem that bothers me? You said Black Lives Matter,’ the emotional black woman is heard saying while other people cleaning up the destruction look on.  

‘I’ve worked here part time and I’m a part owner of this store.

‘You said Black Lives Matter. Why don’t you choke me? I’m black!’ she says as she makes a choking gesture on her throat.

The distressed woman points out all the damage done to the store, the exact location of which is not clear. 

‘Look what you did to my store. Look!’ she says gesturing at the damage as the camera rolls onto the now exposed storefront following a night of chaos on the Big Apple.  

‘Look at the things you done! We’ve been here all night cleaning up!’ she says. 

The woman, wearing plastic gloves from cleaning up the damage, then walks over and points out a pile of destroyed goods from inside the store now lying on the sidewalk.

‘Tell me Black Lives Matter? You lied – you wanted to loot this store. You needed money – get a job like I do!’ she says.

‘Stop stealing. This is the neighborhood – we trying to build it up and you tearing it down.’

The emotional video comes as protests continued for a fifth night in the Big Apple demanding justice for Floyd, the 46-year-old father of two who was killed last Monday in Minneapolis when a white cop knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes while he begged him to stop and said ‘I can’t breathe’.

In New York City, peaceful daytime protests have descended into rioting come nightfall with looters ransacking stores in mainly wealthy areas such as Soho as well as in some local neighborhoods. 

Around 200 people were arrested in New York City Tuesday night and Donald Trump has threatened to send in National Guard troops to bring an end to protests.   

The city was put on an 8p.m. nighttime curfew from Tuesday through to Sunday but thousands continued to defy the order and held demonstrations as outrage builds over Floyd’s death and protesters demand an end to police brutality and racism toward African-American men.