This law-abiding man, Edwin Reed, owns a business in GEORGE FLOYD SQUARE in South Minneapolis - the neighborhood that I grew up in and the state that I left before it destroyed me.
HIS BUSINESS IS DESTROYED thanks to the Democrats running the city of Minneapolis and the state of Minnesota - the same Islamo-Communists who allowed arsonists and looters and gangsters to take over my once beautiful city in the name of "social justice."
Reed said at his peak his business was averaging more than $390,000 a year in revenue. In 2024, his business made $9,700. Mr. Reed is one of the people that the Democrat leaders in Minnesota claim to protect. Right. They lie! They only people that Democrat politicians protect are themselves!
REED: “I’ve had to get rid of employees, I couldn’t afford them. I’m a very hardworking individual. I grew up in this area. I’ve been here since 1984. And I’m a graduate at Washburn High School, class of ‘98. And I’ve saved all my money to start this business. And I have lost everything. My house is in foreclosure.
We are barricaded on every side of every corner and we can't receive commerce. They allowed gangs to rob our community, and the Minneapolis police, they never came to our aid. There are business owners being extorted. I was extorted. Some of the business owners have been shot because they failed to make payment to these people who were claiming to protect our area from getting burned down. The city knew about all of this.”
REED: “I’ve seen six people get killed, two died in my arms. One morning, at 8:30AM, I was checking on my client’s car and we heard gunshots in the alley. And I heard the shots and I was like, lay down, because I didn’t know where the gunfire was coming from. We saw a guy run right past us, shot in the arm, the bullet had lodged in his chest. He died a block down the street in the alley.
No one heard our cries. They totally turned their backs on us. There’s eight businesses that lost everything and they’re grandfathered in, businesses that have been there more than 15 years. They’ve lost everything.
I stayed because I have a lot invested in that area. I have a lot invested in that building. It was a thriving location for all businesses. We were doing very well for ourselves until this happened."
I wish my old liberal friends in Minnesota would wake up and understand that the leaders in charge of the Democrat party there don't want successful voters - they want voters WHO ARE FORCED TO SUBMIT AND DEPEND ON THE PARTY FOR EVERYTHING.
The Communist party of the USA was literally BORN IN MINNESOTA.
George Floyd Square is in Ilhan Omar’s district for a reason and her family worked for the Communist party in Somalia before they fled to Kenya and America. Their goal is to ERASE and destroy America! I wrote about this in-depth years ago:
Ilhan the Trojan Horse
Recently, Ilhan Omar gave two speeches in Minneapolis and another in Somalia which went viral. In them, she says publicly that she is Somalia First, not America First, that Somalia is ONLY for those of pure Somali-Muslim heritage (no diversity allowed) - that the President of Somalia is HER President and that the Obama-Biden regime will do whatever she …
They destroyed Edwin Reed just like they DESTROY EVERYTHING THEY TOUCH. EVIL.
Meanwhile, Derek Chauvin sits in prison for life for a murder he didn’t commit! Where’s the REAL justice, Minnesota?
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