Owners of Indian restaurant that was burnt down in Minneapolis want justice for George Floyd

Gandhi Mahal, a restaurant run by Bangladesh immigrants serving Indian cuisine in the US city of Minneapolis, faced the brunt of an angry mob who protested violently against the racially motivated killing of an African-American man by a white policeman.

The restaurant was burned down during protests on Friday, just days after George Floyd died as a white policeman knelt on his neck for over five minutes. "I can't breathe," George Floyd kept saying even as the policeman kept asking him to "get up" before he passed out and had to be taken to a hospital. He died soon after.

Even though Gandhi Mahal burned, the owners were not angry. In a now-viral Facebook post, the owner's daughter Hafsa wrote, "Gandhi Mahal may have felt the flames last night, but our firey drive to help protect and stand with our community will never die!" She followed it with #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd and #BLM which stands for Black Lives Matter - a movement that campaigns against violence and systematic racism towards black people.