Now I touched on this a little bit in my last post about my friend Dam who was shot during a robbery at his Navy Blu store a couple of Friday's ago. Well the events and circumstances have continued! Just this past Sunday a good friend of ours was duct taped at gunpoint and robbed in the store she worked at sometime around 5 pm on Sunday. The following morning P Valentine was robbed again for the second time in one week. RIDICULOUS!!!!!!!! This brings the number to I believe 18 shops, all robbed for their denim selection........GONE.......... In a few cases like this past Sunday, women have been taped or tied up at gunpoint during the day and robbed. The problem we have here is that nothing outside of the shops is being done! The cops really seem like they don't want to be involved, no media has even touched on the subject until last night, which by the way was cut and edited so much compared to the online version it seemed like the matter wasn't even an issue. To my knowledge no radio dj's have even touched on the subject, even though they shop in most of the boutiques. Now, I know their is many other serious matters that occur in Atlanta everyday, crazy and serious crimes all the time, but this matter has just gotten to the point where it has got to be some sort of entertainment to these assholes. Running up in a store during the day and tieing people up for jeans is just the sign of the times I guess! I hate saying this but its true. Have we become a society so materialistic that this kind of thing has become a day to day occurance? I know robbing and stealing has always been apart of society but to use guns and physical contact for denim is just insane. What can we do about this? I don't know anymore. I mean why should they stop? They are batting a 1,000 here, no one has been caught. I know alot of the shop owners are getting together and getting security extra tight, but I'm upset that the city and voices of our town aren't talking about this more. Maybe they will or have and I've just missed it. With all this being said, I wish everyone safety and awareness. Lets all work together and find a solution to all this nonsense.
Ryan
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Hey love.. its insanity.. I actually got our publicist involved at the store, we had the owner go on The Ryan Cameron show... and speak on it.. and im sure you know the first time it happened Big BoI put out a reward...but for some reason no one is stepping forward...
Quite frankly.. its sad and disgusting.. NavyBly chick was not the first one that got ties up.. my homegirl at Frenchkiss got tied up at 3pm in the middle of the day... insane..
On our end, we set up a meeting with our district police station, our publicist is working on getting the media involved, and I have been talking to bloggers like Sandra Rose to put the word out there...... and the second time around (@pval).. they didnt just take the denim.. they took 80% of the store.. yes.. as in damn near all of it....
sad day.. I think its going to take someone gettin hurt for real to really make a fuss over it ( i guess they assume getting tied and shot is not enough)
love
fadia
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