[NYPOST] Two men were caught on video as they yanked an ATM out of an East Village deli — a crime the bodega industry says is on the rise in the city."We get robbed, we get killed, we are assaulted, but this is a new thing," said Jose Dario Collado, the owner of Yankee Deli & Grocery on Avenue C near East 11th Street that got raided in the early hours Friday.
| Reemergence of an old thing, actually, but all the old pathologies are reappearing that result when the police are hobbled. |
"Looting is in style and there is nothing we can do about it," he said, saying the pair caught on camera "assaulted" his bodega and "left damages totaling thousands of dollars."
| Hire night guards armed with shotguns — that’s the only way to prevent such things when the police stay in their stations. |
"Who will pay me? The City? The Mayor? The Small Business Administration?" Collado asked. "I want answers."
Video shows a man in black sweats — his face obscured by his hood — attaching a chain to the ATM as another man, in red pants a dark T-shirt, waits by a white van with its rear doors open. It was not clear how much cash was in it at the time.
The NYPD did not immediately release data on how many such robberies have happened.
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