""If anybody is going to get hurt, I would prefer myself getting hurt over any of my customers who are in my store at that time.""
""Unfortunately, this is the second incident that's happened in the past four years involving somebody with a knife. So I automatically had like my mental flashbacks.""
""To have an incident like this happen, you don't want to scare away your customer base because they're going to be petrified to come into your store if they don't feel safe.""
Louis Suljevich, owner of Louie's pizzeria in Queens, intervened when a man with a box cutter threatened customers. Despite having been stabbed previously, he chose to de-escalate the situation, allowing patrons to leave. Suljevich expressed his willingness to take harm himself rather than let any customers be hurt. This incident marked the second knife-related event at his pizzeria in four years, raising concerns about customer safety and the overall security of the city. The suspect was arrested and charged but released without bail after pleading not guilty.
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