Philadelphia Still Offering Assistance To Businesses Hit By September Looting

By Wakisha Bailey and Rory Hardenstine, CBS Philadelphia

December 4, 2023

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- It's been more than two months since several independent pharmacies and other local businesses were looted in North Philadelphia.

CBS Philadelphia is dedicated to these communities and we returned to get a look at the recovery of these owners both physically and mentally.

"I went to sleep on Sept. 26 thinking everything was fine," Thera Martin said. "But to wake up at 3:30 in the morning, 4 a.m. the next morning, and to see looting had happened in Center City first of all because that's where the news went first. My thought automatically went to North 22nd Street. Like, 'Oh God, are we hit?' And sure enough, we were."

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