MELISSA, BACK TO YOU.
STEVE HARRIGAN, THAN YOU.
CONNELL?
CONNELL: WE SHIP FM ATLANTA
WHERE MANY BINESSES ARE
PICKING UP THE PIECES AFTER
BEING HIT OVER THE WEEKEND WITH
LOOTING, THAT INCLUDES A PLACE
CALLED ADAM IN BUCKHEAD.
A STORE HAPPENS T A
BLACK-OWNE BESS.
WEE JOINED BY CHR SHELBY.
TELL US WHAT HAPPENED IN YOUR
STORE OVER THEKEND.
>> HOW ARE YOU DOING?
FIRSF A, THANK YOU GUYS FOR
BRINGING US ON.
I’M HERE WITH ONE OF MY BEST
FRIENDS HER
HI, GUYS.
WE’RE BOTH HERE.
>> HELLO.
>> THE NIGHT THIS HAPPENED, LIKE
I SAID WE WERREADY IN A
SERIOUS STATE OF MIND WHAT IS
ALREADY GOING ON ALACK MEN IN
THE STREETS SO YOU KNOW, WE ARE
ALREADY MAD.
THE BLOOD ISNG.
WE’RE PISSED, WE’RENGRY.
YOU KNOW, AND WE’RE SING
EVERYTHING THAT IS GOING ON
OUTSIDE WITROTESTING, SO YOU
CAN ALREADY, IMAGINEOW WE FEEL
ABOUT THAT.
BU LATER ON THAT NIGHT, YOU
KNOW, I’M SITTING UP AT HOME, I
LOOK OUT MY WINDOW, AND I SEE,
YOU KNOW, PEOPLE SCATTERING
AROUND, WHERE YOU KNOW, WE HAVE
OURUSINESSES AT.
I’M HEARING GLASS BAKING.
SO THE BACK OF MYEAD, I’M
LIKE THIS, IS MAYBE THEY’RE
BREAKING UP FEW STORES AROUND
THERE, MAYBEO ONE WILL TOUCH
OUR STORE.
PEOPLE KNOW, I HAVE THOUGHT
OPLE KNOW WE’RE BLACK-OWNED
SINESS AND YOU KNOW, WE
SUPPORTED OUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND,
YOU KNOW, IN ATLANTA FOREARS
NOW.
YOU KNOW, ABOUT 1:30, 2:00, I
WOUND UP GETTING VIDEO, CHRIS,
U ND T CALL HIM BECAUSE
EY’R IN Y’ALL’S STORE.
I SAW VIDEO, I SEE 30, 40 PEOPLE
INND OUT OF OUR STORE, I
CANNOT BELIEVE THIS.
IT IS JUST HEARTBREAKING T WAS
HEART BREAKING HT WITH
YOU.
CONNELL: OF COURSE.
IT WAS HEARTBREAKING, TO SEE
WE BUILT HERE, Y KNOW,
ADAM’S SHOP, OTHER STORES, HAVE
THERE SINCE 2007 BUT OUR
ATLANTATORE HAS BEEN HERE
NCE JUNE 1st,016.
TO SEE ALL THAT WE BUILT HERE,
JUST PY MUCH TAKEN FRO US.
THE IS NOTHING WE COULD REALLY
ABOUT IT.
KNOW?
CONNL: WHAAREOU GOING TO
DO
YOU WERE PROBABLY REOPENING OR
ABOUT TO REOPEN AFTER BEING SHUT
DOWN BECAUSE OF THE VIRUS
RI
>> EXACTLY
WE’VE BEEN CLOSE FORHREE
MONTHS NOW.
THE PURPOSE F US NOW, YOU
THE COVID-19.
SO WE START [INAUDIBLE]
IS IS ONLY WAY WE H TO
REOPEN THE STO.
THIS IS THENLY WAY BECSE THE
DAMAGE WAS SO HUGE, SO FOR US IT
IS GOING TO BE VERY HARD TO BACK
BEFORE.
>> T, JUNE 1st WAS THE
DAY WE WERE GETTING READY TO
REOPEN.
WE CLOSED THE STORE, MARCH 13.
AND KNOW, ALREADY THREE
MONTHS OF NO INCE AND THINGS
OF THAT NATURE.
TODAYAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE
FIRST DAY TO OPEN.
IT IS JUSTIKE, EVERYTHING WE
S PUSNG, WE WEREOOKING
FORWARD TOWARDS, WAS TAKEN FROM
US, YOU KNOW?
SO I’M NOT EVEN SURE --
CONNELL: WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT
THE PROTEST MOVEMEN I’M SORRY
TO INTERRUPT.
HE O ATOM IN ATLANTA ALONG
WITHRIS WHO I THE STORE
MANAGER THERE
I’M SORRY TO INTERRUPT YOU GUYS.
AT DO YOU SAY, YOU SRTED TO
TALK ABOUT THI AT THEINNING
OF OUR INTERVIEW TO
PROTESTERS THAT ARE IN THE
STREETS, BECAU BOTH OF YOU AS
YOU SAID YELF, YOU INTIFY
WITH THE REASON FOR THE MOVEMENT
IT SEEMED, THE KILLING OF GEORGE
FLOYD, REACTION TO THAT, BUT AS
IT HAS MORPHED WHAT IT HAS LAST
FEW DAYS, WHAT DO YOUAYO THE
PEOPLE PROTESTING?
IS.
>> I’M HERE FOR THE ONES THAT
ARE PROTESTING.
GO OUT THERE,ROTEST, PEACEFUL
PROTT,TEST FOR THE RIGHT
REASONING.
WE’RE SUPPOSED TO BE PROTESTING
FOR NOT JUS GEORGE FLOYD BUT
FOR ALL T AICAN-AMERICAN MEN
THAT LIVES HAVE BEEN LOST DUE TO
YOU KNOW, CRIMES LIKE THIS.
WE DO HAVE A VCE THAT NEEDS TO
BE HEARD BUT GOING OUT AND
PEOPLE LOOTING AND TEARING DOW
BUNESSES, ALL KINDS OF
BUSINESSES THAT IS JUST NOT THE
WAY.
THAT IS NOTOING TO SOLVE
ANYTHI.
ALL THA IS GOING TO DO IS MAKE
THINGS EVEN WORSE IN THESE
SITUATIONS.
AND NOW,S A BLACK-OWNED
BUSINESS,E GOT CAUGHT U IN
AS AFRICAN-AMERICAN MEN, IT IS
ND OF LIKE WHAT IS GOINGN,
WHAT IS HAPPENING IS, THERE IS
A, N GUIDANCE.
I THINK THERE IS, A LOT OF
PEOPLE NOT KNOWING THAT, NOT
KNOWING THE REAL REASONING
BEHIND WHAT YOU NEEDO BE OUT
HERE FIGHTING FOR BECAUSE IF
PEOPLE WERE OUT HERE REALLY
KNING WHAT THEY WERIGHTING
FOR, NONE OF THIS LOOTING WOULD
BE GOING ON.
CONNELL: I’M SE YOUR RIGHT
ABOUT THAT.
OF COURSE IT I DIFFERENT AT
NIGHT, RIGHT, THA DING THE
DA
CURFEWSAYBE HELPED OUT.
THAT IS A GOOD IDEA, MAYBE THAT
HELPS OUT FROM HERE ON OUT, THE
WORST OF TS IS BEH US?
>> TO BE HONEST WITHOU, I
DON’TNOW WHAT T CURFEWS
DONE, OR MAKING PEOPLE M.
MAKING PEOPLE FURIO.
YOU KNOW, W WERE JUST GETTING
BACK IN THE LOO OF GOING
OUTSIDE, O THERE BACK INSIDE.
PEOPLE ARE READY T BE OUT AND
ABOUT.
THEY BEING FORCED BACK IN.
LIKE A NEVER ENDING STORY.
YES WEEOPLE AREURIOUS.
PEOPLE MAD.
TO BE HEST WITH YOU, I DON’T
KNOW WHEN IS GETTING READYO
HAPPEN IN THEEXTOUPLE WEEKS
OR COUONTHS BUT I DO SAY,
YBE HAVING THIS CURFEW WIL
SETTLE DOWN A LOT OF RIOTS
THINGS LIKE THAT.
WE’VE BEEN SEEING A LOT OF
TIONAL GUARDS AROUND THE SHOPS
IN ATLANTA AND AROUND T
BOROUGH AND HOPEFULLY THAT
BRIN PCE AND START TO CALM
THINGS DOWN.
I HOPE PEOPLE, WHAT IS THE
REING BEHIND EVERYONE GOING
OUT THERE TO PROTEST
WE NEED TO PROTE THE RIGHT
WAY.
CONNELL: RIGHT.
PE THATESSAGE GETS OUT. CERTAINL WE THANK YOU BOTH,
CERTAINL WE THANK YOU BOTH,
CHRIS AND ZOLA FOR TAY
ATTOM IS THE KNOWN IN TT AREA.
JUST READY TO REOPEN AND NOW HIT