Posted on 12/30/2022 5:55:02 AM PST by robowombat
Looters Ransack Stores As Deadly Blizzard Buries Buffalo
Holly Matkin December 27, 2022 Buffalo, NY – Throngs of looters ransacked stores and destroyed businesses as they tore through the Buffalo area in the midst of a massive winter storm over the weekend (videos below).
“People who are out looting when people are losing their lives in this harsh winter storm are absolutely reprehensible,” Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said during a joint news conference with New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz on Monday afternoon, according to The Buffalo News.
“I don’t know how these people can even live with themselves, how they can look at themselves in the mirror,” Brown added. “They are the lowest of the low.”
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Footage of ransacked stores and demolished businesses have been shared widely on social media.
“They’re not looting food and medicines – they’re just looting items that they want,” the mayor said, according to WGRZ. “These aren’t even people in distress. These are people that are taking advantage of a natural disaster.”
Officials have described the deadly blizzard as a “once in a generation” winter storm that brought much of the area to a grinding halt over the Christmas holiday weekend, WIVB reported.
In addition to impassible roads snarled with hundreds of abandoned vehicles, the blizzard knocked out power for a huge portion of residents, according to CNN.
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More than 25 people in western New York lost their lives in the winter weather, Poloncarz said.
“We do expect there will be more,” he added.
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Police have been going car-to-car and house-to-house, checking to make sure people aren’t in need of help, CNN reported.
“In some of these circumstances, some of these people might not have survived if it weren’t for the efforts of first responders to rescue them from vehicles,” Brown noted.
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“I’m heartbroken about the deaths,” Poloncarz told The Buffalo News. “Just absolutely devastated to see that many deaths and then to find out that there’s looting going on in our community at the same time we’re still recovering bodies is just horrible.”
More than 43 inches of snow and ice fell on the Buffalo area over the weekend, accompanied by high winds and frigid temperatures, Newsweek reported.
Another foot of snow was forecasted to fall by mid-week.
Travel bans were implemented in some areas and crews were working to clear snow from various routes to make roads passable for first responders, WIVB reported.
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Hochul warned that the National Guard would be stopping drivers who attempt to travel through areas where the travel bans were in effect and that violators would be cited.
Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said police have been investigating the reports of looting at locations throughout the city and that they were still unsure how may businesses had been targeted as of Monday, according to WGRZ.
“We have made a few arrests,” Commissioner Gramaglia confirmed.
He said officers also helped to board up at least one store after looters busted out the windows and ransacked the building, WGRZ reported.
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More than a dozen gas stations were rendered inoperable by looters, Erie County Homeland Security and Emergency Services Commissioner Daniel Neaverth told The Buffalo News.
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“This is a drastic implication for us that we now have to deal with to find alternate fuel sources,” Neaverth explained. “So that ambulance that is maybe just going to go a block to refuel now has to go to a facility sometimes outside of the city of Buffalo to be refueled.”
Other looted businesses include Rick’s Sports Apparel near Elmwood Avenue and Allen Street, a Family Dollar on Genesee Street, the Broadway Market, and Rent to Own, among others, WGRZ reported.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11579753/Buffalo-descends-chaos-blizzard-century-rampant-lootings.html
Good for them. They know calling the police is not going to do anything. Not sure about New York, in California those store owners would have been arrested and jailed - it's perfectly legal to take $950 worth of merchandise and law enforcement won't do a thing.
There’s an area in Pitt. where they constantly complain there’s no grocery - but the businesses that use to be there left because of thieft. When someone does try to open there just repeats itself.
Yep. They’ll be driving to the Finger Lakes for milk - while lefties and pols like Michelle Obama will loudly proclaim the areas a “food desert” and accuse Kroger’s, etc. of blatant racism for refusing to operate stores in the area.
This happened in Los Angeles after the Rodney King Riots. The Riot areas are still food deserts to this day, although as the areas turn brown, Mexican supermarkets are opening.
Rittenhouse wrote the manual on self defense during a riot. Fortunately he had video evidence.
I move we table his suggestion until a fair trial has been had
“ “I don’t know how these people can even live with themselves, how they can look at themselves in the mirror,” Brown added. “They are the lowest of the low.””
Says the lying, corrupt, Marxist politician most likely looking forward to being in the DC big league some day.
I never met a slacker that didn’t have an excuse no matter how lame it is.
The Floyd riots, looting and burning were totally unjustified. N H-J had to come up with some absurd excuse to rationalize the behavior of blacks. The whole point of BLM’s demand to end mass incarceration was to give blacks a get out of jail free card. It’s not at all surprising that shop lifting and looting is rampant.
Agree BLM played the Floyd deal for big money and suckered big business for cash gives money or we riot they got the money and they ended up doing both.
On the lighter brighter side it looks like the usual liberal clap trap excuses aren't working anymore. NO, THESE BLACK THUGS ARE NOT LOOTING TO EAT. OR TO KEEP GRANDMA ALIVE.
They're common criminals TAKING ADVANTAGE OF A NATURAL DISASTER - and YOU'RE NOT RACISTS FOR NOTICING THEY'RE BLACK. '
Not a SINGLE ONE of them gave it a second thought. If there were ANY thoughts at all, it was wondering in the PoPo gots pictures of them on some CCTV or something. What they did is called "Gettin Paid" in their vernacular.
The concept of “Shame” went out the window years ago.
Indeed. Even BYSTANDERS who one would think would condemn these actions, even some chick throwing a hissy fit at a Walmart, Waffle House or Mickey D’s, are out there with their iPhones ‘cording it and yelling come ons. It’s because LE and the Judicial system don’t punish them AND the fact that the DEMOCRAT controlled governments in those places won’t let LE do their jobs to start with.
They see it as “reparations”....”Dey owes us!”
“Really? What is the law in Texas to defend property?”
You can use deadly force in Texas to prevent theft of your property. Example below.
1. Bad guy is outside probably in the process of stealing your car and he has not broken into it yet. You cannot use deadly force. You can hold him at gun point. If he tries to attack you, he then became a deadly threat. You can shoot him.
2. Bad guy is in your car and is about to flee with it. You can use deadly force.
Link to Texas Penal Code on Deadly Force
https://texas.public.law/statutes/tex._penal_code_section_9.32
Blacks. That’s who is doing this. It’s time the criminal culture of this race were called out.
How you doing Kearny? Hows life in the old town?
LOL! I see what you did there.
My older brother managed the Shop Rite for forty years in Kearny and such was the case that long ago.
‘I mirror your thoughts but we should table this until we see evidence.’
agreed; a little context may cushion our deep seated reactions somewhat...
“The real Ronald McDonald without her makeup. This bimbo obviously has some serious issues with what remains of her gray matter.”
I’m a bit more worried about the white liberals who eat up all of her crap and then try to place it in school curriculums across the US.
But yeah, I agree with you on her physical appearance.
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