I'm not saying he's a BAD man. But a little more forethought to the possible outcome of going to oppose rioters may have prevented all this for him. Was the owner of the business there to protect his business himself, or did he just send kids to do it for him? Did he not have insurance? Was he really okay with having others put their lives at risk for HIS business?
I understand it's not a pleasant situation for a business owner to find themselves in, but I don't find the circumstances dissimilar to going into a hurricane to protect a business from high winds and storm surge. Some things are powerful enough, it's better to get out of the way and deal with the aftermath than risk lives in the moment.
But we're all entitled to our own opinions, aren't we.
Opinions, yes, facts, not so much.
1. By all accounts, he didn't go there to
oppose rioters. In fact, he went there, to
help them.
He went there to offer up his medical skills because he knew that some of them would get hurt due to their violent behavior.
He did, in fact, render first aid to several demonstrators/rioters prior to things going bad that night.
Also, prior to the nights rampage, he spent time cleaning up some of the mess from the previous nights unlawfulness.
As far as weather the business owner was present of not, I haven't heard, so I can't say for sure. I do know that it takes time to work your way up to business ownership. Typically, a business owner isn't a young person just starting out, so it may well be that the owner was an older person, and not there, but again, I don't know.
Either way, I'm pretty sure it wasn't his call to
"put their lives at risk for HIS business" as you put it, and there is zero evidence to suggest it ever was.
They were there as volunteers, (by their own accounts) and the danger... was caused by violent criminal rioters. (with support from politicians, and media)
Also, the police force had been ordered to stand down (by local politicians) in order to allow the violence to happen. (creating more danger)
2. I'm not seeing how you can even think to compare a weather event like a hurricane, to a man made, politically driven riot...
However, if your idea of solving problems is to simply get out of the way, and clean up the mess later... you're in for a lifetime of cleaning up messes. (fact)
That is, until the mess gets too big to clean up.... and you're stuck with it forever.