It's looting in English. I don't care what LA thinks, liberal domain that it is, OTOT.
I've been on plenty of threads.
And I stand by my statement: there is no need to steal TONS of food at once.
What I see are a bunch of people out in chest high water barely able to move who might have a box of milk or something.
The place (New Orleans city) is flooded!
I think you have to mitigate the situation by the fact that, with the water rising at the time, the food, if not removed quickly, may well have spoiled, so the option quickly becomes take it all or leave it to spoil.
Better it be recovered, and put to use, than left to spoil while people starve waiting for evacuation.
I believe Walmart said "take what you need" to the residents, since their inventory was a rightoff anyway.