Cash Pours In to Fix Bakery Damaged in Ferguson Riots
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ABC NEWS(FERGUSON, Mo.) — A Missouri woman whose business was vandalized in Ferguson riots is busy pushing out pies and cakes at her bakery on Thanksgiving, despite broken windows and damage to the store.
Supporters raised more than $200,000 in two days to help Natalie DuBose, the owner of Natalie’s Cakes & More. DuBose said her bakery, which she opened this summer, was damaged when protesters rioted following news that police officer Darren Wilson had not been indicted in the shooting death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown.
“My main windows were smashed and bakery damaged,” she wrote on a GoFundMe page launched on Tuesday. “I’m beside myself, but with the holidays, can’t stop working.
“I’m truly mixing batter right now.”
Rioters smashed windows, burned down businesses and set police cars on fire late Monday in Ferguson after the grand jury’s decision to not indict Wilson was announced.
DuBose was in tears Tuesday after learning the violence had reached her shop.
An employee who answered the phone at the bakery Thursday told ABC News the staff is busy delivering orders, despite the damage.
Kristine Froeba, a supporter who’s helping run the bakery’s social media pages, said DuBose is hard at work.
“She’s backed up with her Thanksgiving orders, she’s baking around the clock, the phone is ringing off the hook,” Froeba said. “She’s so busy.”
DuBose says she’s grateful for the financial support.
“I am truly and humbly blessed,” she wrote on the GoFundMe page early Thursday.
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