Posted on 04/13/2021 6:43:44 AM PDT by Red Badger
Footlocker stores in Minnesota were looted and trashed once again despite the company having donated $200 million dollars to Black Lives Matter causes in the past year.
Minnesota has been hit with yet more violent unrest over the last two nights in response to the police killing of Daunte Wright, who was shot by a female officer who mistook a gun for a taser.
Footage from Sunday night showed looters breaking into a shoe store and stealing Nike trainers, because apparently justice for Daunte Wright looks an awful lot like getting your hands on a brand new pair of Air Max.
Looters also targeted Footlocker, with footage from the scene showing the store completely cleaned out.
By the end of the night, around 20 Brooklyn Center businesses had been looted as well as sporadic looting in surrounding areas, and the chaos was repeated last night.
Apparently, the opportunistic thugs who looted both stores didn’t care too much for Nike and Footlocker’s commitment to helping Black Lives Matter causes.
Back in June, Nike pledged $40 million over four years to “black community organizations” in a bid to help tackled “systemic racism and police brutality.”
“”Systemic racism and the events that have unfolded across America over the past few weeks serve as an urgent reminder of the continued change needed in our society. We know Black Lives Matter. We must educate ourselves more deeply on the issues faced by Black communities and understand the enormous suffering and senseless tragedy racial bigotry creates,” John Donahoe, President and CEO of Nike said in the statement.
However, Nike’s financial commitment was dwarfed by Footlocker, which pledged a whopping $200 million after the George Floyd riots which went to BLM causes, “investing in youth-centric Black-owned businesses” and served as a means of “enhancing the lives of our team members and our customers in the Black Community through Economic Development and Education.”
Apparently, that education didn’t include educating young black males that “justice” has nothing to do with stealing the latest pair of high-end sneakers.
Yeah but look at all of the OTHER Foot Locker stores from coast to coast that they DIDN’T trash last night.
fools
In effect, they funded this themselves.
And those that will take the brunt is the local store owner and their employees.
I am a scorpion, it’s my nature.
“Footlocker stores in Minnesota were looted and trashed once again despite the company having donated $200 million dollars to Black Lives Matter causes in the past year....”
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Well, that was then. They simply need to donate yet another $200 million this year. And next year and..... /s
The only solution would be for those specific stores to carry only work-boots, but that might not be in the Footlocker line. Now store closings and rebuilding is just a cost of doing business at that location. When the lease comes up, the company has to decide to stay and budget repairs or shut the store down.
Seems like it’s not about the politics of the store/company but more about whether their merchandise is attractive to the looters.
For $200 million the mafia would have provided 24 hour “protection” for Footlocker. BLM? Not so much.
They’d have been better off hiring a bunch of Koreans with rifles, to guard the stores, with orders to shoot to kill all rioters and looters.
I hope one day BLM and Antifa repay their woke donors in the NBA,NFL and MLB by “attending” en masse games, kicking ticket holders out of their seats and demand the game to be plated and refreshments delivered to them.
Bingo!
Footlocker’s new motto: ‘Providing free, fashionable foot wear for rioters since 2020’.
Footlocker’s problem is that these are also their customer base. It is a 21st century version of the retail conundrum of the 20th century: Today’s young shoplifter is tomorrow’s lifetime customer. So they would go easy on them. That changed, though.
This will too.
The kicks the looters looted last time were starting to show wear.
I see civilized society as “domesticated dogs” and these people as the Coyotes that walk among us. You should not treat them as dogs and you should not expect the same behavior. You just might get a brick to the back of your head, etc.
“...despite the company having donated $200 million dollars to Black Lives Matter...”
Do they actually believe donations like this will cause all these hoodlum/thugs to bypass their stores??? ROFL....
These ferals don’t give a crap about what you donated, don’t give a crap about BLM, many don’t even care or know who was shot, stabbed, arrested or what ever happened...It is just an excuse (as if they even need one) to go plunder, vandalize, burn, destroy, steal.....
The lesson here is obvious. $200 million is not enough of a bribe. So I say it’s all Footlocker‘s fault for being cheapskates.
If they can’t figure out they’re financially supporting the very people disrespecting them... that’s a stupidity tax.
What better way to protest 402 years of racism tham a nice new pair of Air Jordans?
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