BROOKLYN (VINnews/Sandy Eller) – A single mother of five who went into her store on Saturday night to prepare holiday orders found herself slapped with a summons for violating Governor Andrew Cuomo’s red zone restrictions.
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Ilana Cagan, owner of the Pottery and Glass Land paint your own studio which offers both in store glass, pottery, canvas and wood projects as well as ready to ship customizable art boxes, had been in her store for just a short time when she heard knocking on her paper-covered windows shortly before 8 PM. Opening her side door, Cagan found herself facing multiple uniformed members of law enforcement.
“There must have been about ten of them,” Cagan told VIN News. “It literally looked like a drug bust – that’s how many people came.”
A member of the sheriff’s department told Cagan that he heard that she was holding a class in her store, located on Coney Island Avenue at the corner of Avenue N.
“I told them to look around,” said Cagan. “There was no one there but me.”
Surveillance video of the interaction shows Cagan telling an officer that the weeks-long lockdown has left her in dire financial straits.
“I have five children,” said Cagan. “I am a single mother and I have zero income coming in right now and everybody else is open and I’m not allowed to be open.”
So wrong… https://t.co/DygmmlQBxR
— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) November 8, 2020
Cagan acknowledged that she had been hoping to open her studio on Sunday with strict social distancing guidelines in place, but noted that she was the only person on premises and that her store was not open for business at the time her summons was issued. Ironically, law enforcement looked away as just a few miles to the north, thousands crowded Times Square to celebrate the Biden presidential victory, in clear violation of current of mass gathering limitations.
“They were all making parties last night and I had the head lieutenant of whatever precinct waiting for me,” observed Cagan. “It was as if I had pounds and pounds of drugs in my store with the amount of people that showed up. It wasn’t just regular building department inspectors – it was sheriffs with a list of people to target.”
Cagan posted video of her encounter on her Instagram Stories, with a plea for her followers to take advantage of her ready to ship art boxes for the upcoming holidays and it picked up steam on social media after being picked up by City Councilman Chaim Deutsch and Eric Trump who tweeted “So wrong…” She woke up this morning to find herself inundated with messages of support and orders coming from as far away as Oklahoma, Boston, England, Canada and Israel, including a $350 order for art projects to be donated to a charitable organization and another from a Roman Catholic man in the Tucson area who wanted to place a $100 order to benefit struggling Jewish families.
Cagan is hopeful that her story will benefit other small businesses in the lockdown area, most of which are struggling to survive.
“Please support the small business that are out there and suffering,” said Cagan. “We are suffering. We have families to feed, we have mortgages to pay, we have rent to pay.”
“I feel bad for anybody in Flatbush right now,” added Cagan.
Deblasio may be incompetent, but Cuomo takes evil to a new level. I said it already when the Evil one Cuomo made this insane lockdown which has no practical benefit except to get back at the Jewish community for one upping him in the summer or to save face for killing thousands of seniors. However after the election, last week, he blamed Deblasio that almost the entire upstate voted Republican. No mention that he signed the bail bill which puts criminals on the street. I hope everyone remembers when it comes time to vote for govenor.
Shall I repeat this again ?
Folks this is a call to action.
Next year is a mayoral election. Business owners , Mosdos yeshivas , Muslims, aguda , satmar , corporate America , fed up cops etc all need to build a coalition now and nominate a strong candidate for mayor who will fight the dictator governor and clean up nyc. He will protect our interests and our needs . He will be a mayor of the people .
The time for action is now . This is a wake up call. We have the energy and we did it once in 93 when we elected America’s mayor Rudy . Wake up everyone
You voted for the dictator fredo the geroticide cuomo, you reap what you sow. They are hypocritical fascistic Jew haters.
No question our askonim will instruct us to vote for Cuomo and the people will obey.
It’s difficult to feel for them , but I’m trying.
Maybe if she would have displayed a red hammer & sickle flag, along with portraits of Lenin, Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Comrade Warren Wilhelm Jr., she would have been spared. But without such a display, her goose was cooked.
Next time. Don’t open the door. They couldn’t do nothing to you if they don’t have your name and personal info. We’re trying to be too nice to the wrong people. Let them keep knocking and they’ll walk away after 10 minutes. Kish mir Tuches.
The problem greater than Cuomo and DeBlasio is mosserim. Big businesses are allowed to open. The city is just interested in money. Some mosser thinks they are stopping the spread of the virus by calling the government. We are in this galus because of sinas chinam. Calling the government on a Jew just causes more problems by making galus longer. There is no bracha in being a mosser.
all it took was 1 anonymous phone call.
one can call out the hypocrisy of the left until blue in the face nothing will change.
the history teaches us that such evil can only be removed by extreme force.
stupid enforcement police….
what else can be said? Just plain stupid enforcement police. Probably former TSA employees…..
That’s horrible
Pl Post her web page so we can all help her out
I hope she gets it dismissed if not I’ll be the first want to give $100 towards paying the fine.That’s if they put up some type of Fund for her
these blasted officers better look out or else they’ll have the Boooooooogolo boys on their freaking tail !!!!!!
If she was breaking a law, she deserved a summons.
I saw the video. Seems like the officer was responding to a complaint and when he realized it was bogus he left her alone. Stop making a mountain out of nothing. COVID is dangerous – I can tell you that as a doctor. Officer is just tying to do a very hard job. He hardly seemed fascist to me in this video.