Jewelers Looted in Minneapolis Protests

By John Jeffay / June 03, 2020 / www.idexonline.com / Article Link

(IDEX Online) - Workers in Minneapolis fled in terror when looters threw a rock through their jewelry store window.

A dozen staff were stashing valuables in a safe at R.F. Moeller Jewelers, in St. Paul, when company president Bob Moeller received a text warning from police that a mob was approaching.

They escaped through a back door as looters smashed their way in with sledgehammers.

The company's other store, in Edina, was also looted and vandalized.

In a separate attack, a security guard was reportedly shot at Thurston Jewelers, in Minneapolis.

And MSP Jewelers, in Uptown, Minneapolis, says it has lost up to $80,000 of inventory in a series of nightly raids.

Many other stores in Minneapolis and across the USA have been attacked, just as they were re-opening after COVID-19 lockdowns.

Protests over the death of Mr Floyd, a black man who died after a police officer kept his knee on his neck for almost nine minutes, show no signs slowing.

Pic shows protests in Minneapolis

 

 

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