Baltimore riots: 'They even took the ATM' – Pakistani shop owner may have lost $100,000 to looters [View all]

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"They even took the ATM," Faizan Shaheed declared as he and his sister, Kanwel, were helping to nail plywood sheets over the shattered windows of their aunt’s small Pakistani grocery on Charles Street in the downtown area of Baltimore, just one of so many properties ransacked by rioters, who went on the rampage following the funeral of a young black man who died in police custory.

The shop, Annapurna Grocery and Gifts, came under attack from a small mob in the middle of the afternoon. They smashed the windows and double doors before stripping nearly everything they could find. All that was left last night were lines of stripped shelves, some onions and a few empty sweet boxes.

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"What is she going to do? This isn’t her fault. Is the city going to help her? She doesn’t even have insurance," said Kanwel, who said she left her children at home crying to come to help with the clean-up. "We wouldn’t even think that something like this could happen in Baltimore." She speculated that the young men may have targeted the shop because they knew it was owned by Pakistanis.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/baltimore-riots-they-even-took-the-atm--pakistani-shop-owner-may-have-lost-100000-to-looters-10208502.html



If they targeted this business because it was owned by Pakistanis they should be charged with hate crimes.