“It is literally the definition of kicking someone when they are down,” Andres Giraldo Florez, owner of the Snail Bar in Oakland, California, told City Council candidate Chris Moore after Oakland police gave Florez an invoice for responding to a call that his store had been robbed.
“They came one hour after we got robbed,” Florez explained. “And after one hour that we got robbed, they walked through and they put a piece of wood up with duct tape.”
“This thing cost me thousands of dollars to fix already,” Florez continued. “And them thinking that we have enough money on top of that to give them some more for coming through and checking out what happened. Seems so irrational.”
Moore explains in the video that the Snail Bar has been hit three times in recent months, and Florez adds that 10 other businesses have also been hit just in the Temescal neighborhood alone.
“It is getting really old,” Florez added. “And on top of that, you know, for the city to not only fail to protect us, the small businesses, but on top of that, give us an invoice for doing the work that they did seems fully irrational.”
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In an X post accompanying his interview with Florez, Moore writes, “Oakland Council President Nikki Bas, after you declared that public safety for Oakland should be defunded by 50%, you can’t start billing small businesses every time they are broken into. It’s insulting and is killing off jobs. The community demands you STOP the practice of destroying small businesses.”
One hopes that Oakland residents will get fed up with Democratic politicians who keep prioritizing social justice over law and order, but it seems there is no end in sight.