Video: In La’s Little Tokyo, protests draw sympathy and frustration

The last three days since Friday, since the demonstrations started, gradually get a little more crazier and a little wilder. “Ice is not welcome here.” Friday and Saturday we noticed that the majority of the crowd was held just north of us, but in the next block. On Monday they actually came straight for us. My store is called fugetsu-do confectionary. Was started in 1903. I am the owner of the third generation. Was started by my grandfather. Because we are Japanese American, we were put in the camps. My father and mother are actually married in a concentration camp in Wyoming. So we are very sensitive to this cause. Japanese Americans have a similar experience with the federal government and are locked up for four years, but it is difficult to support a group when you fall victim to a small minority of them. Ninety -nine percent of the demonstrators are authoritative and they are here to protest. Although not everyone in the protest group understands that to come to Little Tokyo and to harm the windows and the buildings and walls, it is probably the last place that is logical for them. Yes, we will close. I already told them to pack it. It is just like you are getting ready for a hurricane back in Florida – border on the windows. Well, we do that here in LA for this.