[Buffettfan]

[[The other businesses (largely Jewish owned, btw) along Springfield Avenue were cleaned out within minutes in some cases.]]

You mean like all of the Walmarts in New Orleans during Hurrican Katrina?

[Clemenza]

Yep. All of these stores that were nice enough to let these poor folk buy appliances and clothing on credit were wiped in a flash. My uncle told me that as soon as they got a call that there was looting, they knew the place would be cleaned out as soon as they got there.

Unlike Wal Mart, these guys were small businessmen, and these stores were all that they had. After the riots, they took whatever savings or insurance they had and opened businesses elsewhere, leading to the hood rats whining about "disinvestment in their communities."