a bakery and ransack the place. they had just finished taking place in a takeover. the bakery owners his losses include $20,000 in weekend losses. and lost her daughter in a crash with a street racer, she founded street racing kills. ladies, i m sorry for your loss in what is a senseless crime. what goes through your mind when you see video like i just played? it is absolutely personal to me. it hits home, it is heart breaking and unacceptable. todd: lilly, it s been over a decade since you lost your dau daughter, is anything being done about these street takeovers?
you. to what do you attribute that crime? i would not be able to answer that. we need better policies for the community to help us and i would say sometimes they don t help. the people that suffer are the hard working people. i had a neighbor on the street takeovers around here lost his work truck so now he can t work. he lost his livelihood because of that. so i hate to say nobody gets punished, right. sandra: nobody gets punished for anything, that s a big statement. ruben ramirez, we are we support small businesses like yourself, and we want you to be able to get those doors open again and we are so sorry for everything you have gone through. thanks for coming on and telling your story. appreciate your time. appreciate you guys. thank you very much. john: another $5,000 in the gofundme page in the last little
because of the community and because of all the outpour of people calling us and wishing us well, praying with us, and it s just been overwhelming the support. at first of course like anybody we were angry, then we were sad, sad the worst is seeing my parents who built something for over 48 years to almost lose it, you know, because of some, you know, the violence that s going on right now. street takeovers in compton have been getting worse and worse, i m not the only one frustrated. john: that was ruben ramirez, jr. from compton, california, his story viral after a mob of looters ransacked the family s bakery, ramming with a door and stuffing their pockets with everything they could find. since the interview last hour the gofundme page has more than doubled, means a lot of people have been watching this and paying attention to it, sandra,
sandra: the viral video out of compton, california has been seen by many. a mob of at least 100 looters viciously attacking a neighborhood bakery during a street takeover. security footage capturing looters to use a car to shove through the front doors of the bakery before they rushed in and stuffed their pockets and stole everything in sight. joining us is ruben ramirez, jr., his parents were immigrants and opened it 40 years ago. i know you and your team are trying to rebuild the store to reopen again, i ll ask you about that in a moment, but first, why did this happen? why did those looters do this to your store? i have no answer for that. this has never happened to us before. never we have seen street takeovers in the area but
the 6th and we barely started making them again. so, yeah, it s going to be a little devastating. we don t know the effects of how long it s going to take us to recover completely. sandra: ruben, small business owners like yourself are what make the communities so special and you are so important to the community. we have the gofundme page, the numbers are climbing, the community is trying to help you rebuild. we know you are partially reopen today, that is amazing in and of itself, ruben and we hope you are able to do so. before you go, when you sit back and look at what happened to your family-owned business and you see this crime happening in american cities coast to coast, to what do you attribute this? why is this happening? one of your neighbors was quoted saying you are used to weekly street takeovers there, car donuts, burnouts. this is happening weekly around