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Regulations and you can't shoot thugs and criminals trying to rob you or kill your patrons.
Try not baking a cake against your beliefs...
Another issue impacting the store is the neighborhood's population of drug users. People strung out on drugs have vomited in the store, thrown screaming tantrums and shot up in the bathroom. Shoplifting is a daily occurrence and employees working the early-morning shift have been assaulted. The store's back door is metal, yet corroding from the amount of human pee on it. On average, he says he deals with about 10 people a day who are on drugs in his store.
"I had a guy who chewed up his arm raw in the store, and I had to call 911," he says. "It took six people to subdue him and they had to zip tie him to the stretcher. This is happening in your business. It distracts you from what you're doing."
Desaulniers isn't the only small business owner struggling in the neighborhood, that's home to museums, several tech-company headquarters and services for people living on the street and addicted to drugs.
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