Rahul Dubey opened the doors of his Washington home to over 70 people.
Washington:
An Indo-American businessman, who opened the doors of his Washington home to more than 70 people demonstrating against the murder of George Flyod in detention, became a hero after helping strangers, feeding and feeding them is assured that they were safe in his house. , according to the American media.
The death of 46-year-old African-American Floyd last week in Minneapolis led to one of the greatest civil unrest in American history.
Rahul Dubey, who has lived in Washington DC for 17 years, housed the large number of people in his house with a few adjustments on the sofa, some finding space in the bedrooms, while some were delighted to rest even on the rims of the bathtub.
“There are about 75 people in my house. Some have a sofa. There is a family, a mother and a daughter here, to whom I gave my son’s room so that they could have some peace. Yeah, even the sides of the tub, and no one is bitching, they’re happy-no, they’re not happy, they’re safe.
“They support each other,” Mr. Dubey, 44, told Esquire magazine on Tuesday.
The day after Monday’s protests, Mr. Dubey, the owner of Alvarez Dubey Trading Co., appeared in mainstream media and was hailed as a savior as those who took refuge in his home began to tweet about it. topic.
“Rahul saved lives last night,” wrote a Black Lives Matter activist on Twitter. “He ended that with an inspiring speech about not giving up and continuing the peaceful fighting. What a guy. Thank you Rahul.”
“I am in a house in Washington after being sprayed with pepper and run over by the police. There are about 100 of us in a house surrounded by cops. All the neighbors on this street have opened their doors and are looking after the demonstrators. The cops surrounded us on this street and sprayed us, “tweeted Allison Lane, one of the protesters.
In an interview with the ABC News WJLA affiliate, Dubey said it was around 8:30 p.m. that he was sitting outside and saw the police setting up a brigade on 15 St. and Swann St. which turned into a waiting area.
People started to sit on his porch and asked if they could charge their phones and use their bathroom, he told the news station. Protesters left his home after the curfew ended at 6 a.m. on Tuesday.
“I don’t think there was even a choice in what I did, to be honest. The crowd just came through like a tornado. … We had to keep the door open and just continue to grab people and shoot them. ” It’s the same thing you would do if it was a storm, and you would have let anyone in your house, I know, “he told NBC News.
He said that when the police line finally passed his house, it was then that people stopped running and “I was able to close the door and lock it. People were pouring milk on the face and water was running. I went downstairs to get water for people. People were coughing, “he told Esquire.
