Developer Rick Caruso faults officials' protest response and joins business leaders calling for racial justice. Will corporate actions follow words?
, Chick-fil-A Chief Executive Dan Cathy called the killings of George Floyd and many other Black men “horrifying” and outrageous. He said the company — which last fall promised to stop donating to charities with histories of opposing same-sex marriage — had bolstered its financial investments in the redevelopment of the Westside of its home city of Atlanta, and supports nonprofit services serving the Black community including historic Morehouse College.
Caruso’s statements on the protest movement carve out a cautious perspective. He praises the ideas behind it while excoriating unnamed public officials in charge when the Fairfax district was the site of property damage on May 30, including hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage at the Grove, which saw smashed windows, burglarized stores and a police kiosk set on fire.
Caruso said he does not support calls to “defund” the police, which he called “pandering on the part of leadership, and it will only hurt the Black community.” Mayor Eric Garcetti has said he willCaruso, who registered to vote with no party preference, said a little over half of the more than 1,000 employees at his company are not white, and that 41% of managers are not white. About half of his employees are women.
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