A well-liked Jamaican restaurant in Philadelphia was trashed, inflicting tens of 1000’s of {dollars} in injury yesterday, Media Take Out has confirmed. And members of the Caribbean neighborhood are outraged by the motion of a bunch of rowdy youngsters.
A video leaked yesterday, exhibiting the chaotic second when a big group of youngsters power themselves right into a Philadelphia restaurant, and ransacked the place.
The incident occurred on Saturday evening on the Zion Delicacies restaurant, one of the well-liked Jamaican spots within the metropolis.
The Philadelphia Police Division is investigating the incident and launched the video in hopes the general public will acknowledge a number of the youths. However the restaurant’s proprietor is afraid of going again to work in a neighborhood that she mentioned is changing into increasingly harmful.
“We’ve got completed nothing to no person besides open a restaurant attempting to make a dwelling, in addition to attempting to offer a service. No one’s anticipating that they’re going into enterprise to get their place trashed,” she instructed the native media.
As seen within the video, the group flipped over tables and tossed chairs by means of the plexiglass safety barrier. At one level, somebody even threw a bicycle into the restaurant. Fortunately nobody was injured.
The incident occurred even regardless of Philadelphia imposing a modified summer season curfew final month particularly geared toward maintaining minors secure and away from crime.