'Not Protected Against Looters': New York Store Owner Sues Authorities

The owner of the store on Madison Avenue sued the state governor and the mayor of New York due to the fact that his business suffered from looting. The entrepreneur is convinced: the authorities are guilty of this, having ordered the police to "retreat." This publication reports Fox News.

The owner of a New York interior store sued state governor Andrew Cuomo, mayor Bill de Blasio and New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea for failing to stop the robberies, which resulted in his store being severely damaged.

In particular, the businessman accuses the authorities of not providing police officers in response to the riots that occurred during recent protests. “When the protesters looted, where are they (policemen. - Ed.) were? " He says.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Domus Design Center, an interior design company located on Madison Avenue in Manhattan. In it, Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York Police Commissioner Dermot Shea are mentioned as accomplices of the defendants.

“The city and state government have a responsibility to protect individual store windows,” attorney Sal Strazzullo said July 10. "My law firm believes that through testimony, through research, we can discover that a city or state had intelligence about the criminals who looted the shops and did nothing about it."

He added that, in his opinion, even more enterprises would join them as plaintiffs to turn this into a class action lawsuit demanding compensation for damages worth more than $ 100 million.

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In addition, the Lieutenants Benevolent Association, New York City Police Charity Association, expressed dissatisfaction on Tuesday with a statement by the state governor and other leaders who called the department "incompetent." They also sided with “peaceful demonstrators,” despite a video showing how demonstrators hit a lieutenant in the back of the head with a brick in the midst of the riots and looting caused by George Floyd’s death.

In a letter sent to New York City police lieutenants, association president Lou Turco said politicians accused law enforcement of "all the social vices created by their wrong and empty civil policies," while officers were attacked.

In a letter sent to Cuomo, Turco writes: “How dare you call New York City police members incompetent, when it was your erroneous policy that created an environment in which the police cannot act, and you provide additional incentives for those who want to destroy society and commit crimes against people, law enforcement and property. "

The NYPD Police Benevolent Association later released a video. It records how the lieutenant gets hit, allegedly when the officer pointed a gun at the crowd.

Strazzullo said he had heard of other businesses that would like to participate in the lawsuit. He noted that over the past three or four days after the lawsuit was filed, such a desire was revealed by many lawyers whose names he refused to divulge.

“Of course, the city and the state owe us, which is why we pay property taxes, which go to the NYPD and the state police. Where were the government officials? " - asked Strazzullo. He added that while walking around the city, you can find many police officers issuing fines for harmless violations: “They are everywhere. When the looting took place, where were they? "