Posted on 10/28/2020 8:44:03 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Looters in the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia ransacked a Walmart during the second night of protesting the shooting of an armed Black man on the city’s west side. Rioters broke pipes in the ceiling, flooding the store.
Fox29 reporter Steve Keeley tweeted video from inside the pillaged Walmart early Wednesday morning. The footage shows the devastation left behind by looters who stole everything from big-screen televisions to small appliances. Water is seen spraying from pipes in the ceiling.
The unrest began after two officers shot and killed an armed Black man, Walter Wallace, Jr. Video captured by a witness shows Wallace advancing on two police officers around a car and into the street. Officers ordered Wallace repeatedly to drop the knife.
Wallace continued approaching the retreating officers with the knife extended toward the police. Multiple shots rang out and Wallace fell to the ground. A responding police officer loaded Wallace into a vehicle and drove him to the hospital. He later died from his wounds.
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There are now some areas of the country businesses may be thinking twice about having a presence there.
The irony method of creating food deserts
Sounds like an insurance scam
Flood the store to collect more in insurance payments
Walmart donated to these thugs so they can come back and destroy their stores for the insurance cash
This is a giant scam
Beat me to it.
“Walter wanted me to steal this tv.”
Nothing screams out for racial justice like loading a Walmart does it?
And walmart will what? Donate a couple more million to #bm and redo the store for easier access for looters next time? Because if they don’t———————racis’!
Did they even bother to wear masks and social distance? /sarc
Unrest of Opportunity.
They’ve figured out how to play us. Just find some trigger event, then ghetto Christmas sale begins!
I notice the looted Walmart as the Amish were running in and out had Woke posters on the doors.
Now, if Walmart would just donate more money to BLM and urban utes, all this would go away. Oh, wait, they already did that? Perhaps they need to be more generous this time?
Sounds like an insurance scam
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More likely the sprinter system was tripped by the detection of smoke.
I think a major lawsuit is coming: Why weren’t “protesters” for “civil rights” and “social justice” issued hip boots? The taxpayers should have given them boots./s
Seriously, if these scenes and ones of fires in riots are not on GOP TV ads right away then something is wrong. Let the Dems, undecideds and anti-Trump, anti-tweet women see what the Left does when unrestrained.
The Dems had the nerve to repeat “This is Donald Trump’s America” when THEY are doing the carnage and enabling it!
Trouble is, when the dust settles and these stores do NOT reopen, then cries of RACISM will be heard about corporations red lining these looter districts...oops I mean urban districts.
In the meantime, the suburb stores will see an influx of new business. And graffiti, vandalism, theft, car break ins, shoplifting....
How sick is it. People were stealing artificial Christmas Trees from Wal-Mart. Nothing says Christmas like stealing a Christmas tree.
Walmart has more stores and most companies have employees. They had a store in Canada that threatened to unionize so their solution was simple. They close the store permanently. They’ll close this one. This is why we have food deserts and now, apparently, Walmart deserts.
So are these peaceful protest being carried out by people outside the community?
I wouldn’t count on that. For the life of me, I can not understand why anyone would put a department store or any other business for that matter smack in the urban center of a city run by democrats. Yet they still do. Maybe it’s the insurance, maybe it’s the political pressure, maybe it’s because the corporations are run by the peanut-brained children of a formerly great founder (Walton family?) and they just can’t outrun their own stupidity.
On video about the looting, I saw several cars running around in the parking lot in all directions...4-5 cars hitting each other...Total chaos...
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