2020-06-04 00:00:00, , Fox News
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/Arts & Entertainment
Word Count:
1256
Words/Sentence:
31
Reading Time:
6.28 min
Reading Quality:
Intermediate
Readability:
9th or 10th
But in the riots that reached Santa Monica on Sunday, almost everything inside was damaged or pilfered as the distraught owners looked on, and those who tried to defend the building had guns and other weapons pulled on them with no law enforcement to be found."
Then groups of 10 – most with backpacks on skateboards and machetes and hammers in their hands started coming toward the center."A few minutes later, when Negrete dared look again, from every direction, there were hundreds of people barreling toward them in a scene she depicted as "pandemonium."
She said 80 percent of their business has been obliterated, and right now, it's a fight between the landlord and the insurance over who is responsible for paying for what."I'm struggling, and I have a family to feed too, and we don't qualify for any help from the government," she added, her voice breaking into tears.
Parents there stealing with their children."'IT WAS A WAR ZONE': SMALL-BUSINESS OWNERS WHO LOST EVERYTHING IN RIOTS SPEAK OUTCalling 911 proved to be futile.
SANTA MONICA POLICE CHIEF FACES CALLS TO RESIGN AFTER OFFICERS WATCH BUSINESSES BEING LOOTED, DO NOTHINGAs of Wednesday, Negrete said, the police still had not come to take a report."
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