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Why They Did It: Understanding the hundreds of looters after Ferguson
KTVI-TV ^ | February 11, 2015 | Rebecca Roberts

Posted on 02/12/2015 4:45:15 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

FERGUSON, MO (KTVI) – For the past five weeks, FOX 2 has worked with St. Louis County police to show surveillance footage of hundreds of criminals looting businesses in the Ferguson aftermath.

The goal is to identify these looters, but these videos also provide a unique opportunity for law enforcement and criminologists to take a closer look at their behavior.

On August 10th, the day after Michael Brown was shot; several people broke through the security gate outside prime sole shoe store on West Florissant. Throughout the 14-minute surveillance video, people casually walk in, grab Jordans, then other Nikes, and walk out. It’s calm and organized.

Eighty-seven people took advantage of this business that night.

Dr. Remy Cross is a Webster University Criminology professor, who specializes in illegal group behaviors....

(Excerpt) Read more at fox2now.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: blacks; crime; ferguson; gibsmedat; looters; missouri; thegibs
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1 posted on 02/12/2015 4:45:15 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another golden opportunity for Free S**T! That’s why they did it.


2 posted on 02/12/2015 4:49:13 AM PST by petercooper ("How To Destroy The Country In 6 Short Years" by Barack Obama & the Democrats)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Understand them? How hard is that? They’re lazy, low-life filth.


3 posted on 02/12/2015 4:50:59 AM PST by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: petercooper

“Another golden opportunity for Free S**T! That’s why they did it.”

I was just gonna say “free stuff” but I think your phrasing is more on target.


4 posted on 02/12/2015 4:51:02 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: petercooper

Did they steal any workboots?


5 posted on 02/12/2015 4:51:47 AM PST by Boomer One ( ToUse)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Don't try and understand them,
just round them up and brand them.
6 posted on 02/12/2015 4:53:27 AM PST by Buffalo Bob
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Decades of being taught that something is owed to them.


7 posted on 02/12/2015 4:54:13 AM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

” But now, St. Louis County police are trying their best to charge every single looter”

There it is in one sentence;
Proof positive of the Louis County POlice racist attitude towards the poor downtrodden blacks that are forced to live in Ferguson and other plantations in eastern Missouri.
All the Just-Us Dept. needs take over the St Louis County POlice Dept.


8 posted on 02/12/2015 4:54:35 AM PST by Tupelo (I feel more like Philip Nolan by the day)
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To: Buffalo Bob

I think the actual lyrics were “rope, throw, and brand ‘em.”. Seems appropriate in this context too.


9 posted on 02/12/2015 4:55:46 AM PST by IronJack
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Let’s analyze the behavior of the shoe store owner/manager instead. He/she is a person who gets up every morning and goes in and puts in a full day of work. Who cares about the thieves?


10 posted on 02/12/2015 4:56:02 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The majority on intergenerational welfare has been brought up on taking what isn’t theirs. No need for a deep study of the problem; except for yet another rip-off of the public to fund a study of the obvious.


11 posted on 02/12/2015 4:56:15 AM PST by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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Why They Did It..

I know! I know!

Layaway. It was common before credit cards back in the 1960s.

It wasn't looting! (Liberals and MSM employees explained)..

it was layaway.

Back then buying something on layaway was common. Liberals said that white inner-city merchants overcharged blacks and the overcharges can be considered layaway payments.

So the people were simply picking up the merchandise they paid for over the prior weeks and months.

Meantime demands for law and order ("law'n order") were racist, liberals said. So that explains that too.

12 posted on 02/12/2015 4:58:46 AM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Why They Did It: Understanding the hundreds of looters after Ferguson

What a stupid, sappy, headline.

The hundreds of looters were a combination of local criminals doing what criminals do; and out-of-town criminals, bussed in to the area by race-hustling criminals to do what criminals do.

THAT is all any SANE person needs to "understand" about them.

13 posted on 02/12/2015 4:59:58 AM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Opportunity to get free sh##. They know how to work it, this wasnt for brown this was for them


14 posted on 02/12/2015 5:00:33 AM PST by ronnie raygun (Empty head empty suit = arrogant little bastard)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What’s to understand?

Gibsmedats who are fired up by Leftist activists.


15 posted on 02/12/2015 5:01:28 AM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: cripplecreek
“Decades of being taught that something is owed to them.”

Yes. This is true of an alarming number of people now, from all walks of life. This is the basis of ‘healthcare is a right’.

16 posted on 02/12/2015 5:02:19 AM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Why did you lot the store”

“because that’s where the stuff was”


17 posted on 02/12/2015 5:02:50 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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18 posted on 02/12/2015 5:03:16 AM PST by Daffynition ("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
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To: blueunicorn6

Let’s analyze the behavior of the shoe store owner...”

...bravo!


19 posted on 02/12/2015 5:07:00 AM PST by albie
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To: petercooper

They are the children and grandchildren of LBJ.


20 posted on 02/12/2015 5:07:31 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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