Cleveland business owner who hid in bathroom as rioters looted her store ‘sent threats for cooperating with police’
THE OWNER of a cupcake store in Cleveland has reportedly received threats for cooperating with police after the business was looted.
Colossal Cupcakes, owned by Kelly Kandah, was ransacked during protests on May 30 following the death of George Floyd.
Kandah told “Fox & Friends” on Monday that she has received threats for cooperating with investigators and the FBI, some even saying that they will hit her store again.
She said it is upsetting people think her cooperation is “against the cause” because she is “actually absolutely for the cause”.
During the looting, Kandah, who has owned the store for a decade, and four of her employees hid in a locked bathroom.
Kandah says the police saved her life that day.
“I was showing some of the damage and I was leaving, a friend and myself, and someone walking by approached us and said, ‘When the store rebuilds, when you rebuild this, I’m going to come back and destroy it again and you.’ He kept walking and was gone,” Kandah said.
She told hosts that she is scared to reopen the store.
Host Ainsley Earhardt asked Kandah what she says to critics that call her a racist and that she doesn’t support black lives for calling and thanking the police.
“It’s just really sad,” she responded. “Unfortunately my store is not open right now and I’m so involved with the community and I’m so involved with our inner-city schools and I’m so for the cause that I do a lot of community service. Right now, I can’t. I do’t have anything being brought in to donate as much as I usually do.”