Two months after riots in south Minneapolis following the death of George Floyd, many businesses are still struggling while dealing with rising gun violence in their neighborhoods.
Some small family-owned minority businesses whose shops were vandalized, looted, or burned down say they are still waiting for financial support from state and city-level government officials after Governor Tim Walz’s request for $500 million in federal aid to help in the rebuilding was rejected by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). A spokesperson for FEMA said “it was determined that the impact to public infrastructure is within the capabilities of the local and state governments to recover from,” according to MPR News.
