In Akron, Downtown businesses are dealing with the impacts of the Jayland Walker grand jury decision, saying they have seen an extraordinary drop in business since Monday.
"I'm just touching base and getting a sense of how everybody's feeling," said Mylett.
Over the summer, his business was called Karma Cafe, and during those protests following Jayland Walker's death. Protesters busted out windows along with other damages downtown. "You have to believe what you choose to do, whether it's right or wrong, but you have to protect your investment," said Chris."The fear factor is definitely there, like this week, you can tell that not a lot of people come down for the baseball game; we've seen a decline in revenue with people eating for lunch," said Chris."We do not have boards on our windows just because of how many windows we do have.
"We're just, you know, a mom-and-pop restaurant... we don't have big corporate to help back us up," said Aaron.
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