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Business owners take part in a boycott, shutting down their businesses during a press conference to protest rampant crime in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. The protest took place at Le Cheval, a Vietnamese restaurant that plans to close late this month because customers are too afraid to visit downtown. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)"Oakland has become known as a city that is OK with violence and crime, and we're not," said Nigel Jones, owner of uptown restaurants Calabash and Kingston 11.
Originally published at Shomik Mukherjee