KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City business owner is blaming the city and Mayor Quinton Lucas after his business was broken into overnight.
Matt Shatto, who owns Betty Rae’s Ice Cream, posted on social media on Wednesday.
River Market businesses are the latest target for break ins
In a message to Lucas he said, “your city is the only one on a daily basis where we wonder if our staff is going to be safe and our assets are protected.”
Shatto goes on to claim despite paying taxes for public safety, “we are not safe in public.” Click here to read his entire LinkedIn post .
Betty Rae’s stores shared video of a recent break-in on Wednesday . a thief stole cash, ice cream and peanuts from Betty Raes. But the owner hopes City leaders don’t consider crimes like these to be small peanuts.
“Money can be replaced what I can’t replace is my staff now comes to work and worries about things like that when I hire people I now have to get over that burden no the River Market is a very safe place,” Shatto said.