Black Lives Matters extremists in Rochester, New York, reportedly tried storming a Wegmans’ grocery store Tuesday, forcing store employees to lock the front doors out of fear and thus trapping customers inside the store for a short period of time.
The so-called “protest” occurred on the anniversary of the death of Daniel Prude, a black career criminal who died in police custody last March as officers tried to apprehend him for walking around naked while high on lethal doses of the narcotic PCP.
“As we march, rally and protest — you have to be able to stop commerce. … We want people to be inconvenienced because Daniel Prude’s family has suffered a great loss,” one of the extremists, Anthony Hall, said to the Democrat and Chronicle.
However, the extremists’ behavior suggest that the apparent reasons for the so-called “protest” were racial grievances about alleged mistreatment.
According to Justin Murphy, a reporter with the Democrat & Chronicle, the extremists began congregating in the heart of downtown Rochester around 8:00 am, started marching about an hour later and then shut down a bus station around 9:30 am to demand the city provide free busing for “black and brown people.”
Look:They left the bus station shortly thereafter and slowly made their way to Wegmans, where they then set up camp to complain about the supermarket chain not being located close enough to the city’s predominantly black neighborhoods.
“Wegmans exemplifies what’s wrong in our community. Wegmans started in the inner-city, in some of our most vulnerable communities, then they got their check and left. There is no reason why Danny Wegman is having so much success, but in the city, we have food deserts,” local left-wing activist Justin Morris reportedly said.
According to Murphy, the extremists were also angry at the store for hiring “police for security.”
Michael Schwartz, a reporter with local station WHAM, captured footage from the “protest” outside Wegmans. Watch below, and take note of one of the extremists, Ashley Gantt, vowing to “be here for awhile”:
According to reporting from both Schwartz and Murphy, because of the extremists’ presence and unruly behavior, the staff inside the Wegmans store was forced to lock the front doors and keep customers inside.
Look:
