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'Looting' deemed racist term, California experiencing 'organized robbery'
Washington Examiner ^
Posted on 11/23/2021 12:19:51 PM PST by TigerClaws
What happened in California this weekend when over $1 million in luxury goods were stolen was not "looting," authorities said.
Calling it "looting" might be racist, they said.
Instead, what happened was "organized robbery," according to a spokesperson for the San Diego Police Department.
San Diego officials are not alone in this sentiment.
"As the Bay Area grapples with a wave of seemingly organized smash and grab robberies this weekend, policing and journalism analysts are cautioning against the use of the term looting," a report said.
In San Francisco , Louis Vuitton and Burberry stores were burglarized and lost a significant amount of their product, the report said.
Similar incidents occurred in San Jose, Santana Row, Hayward, and Walnut Creek, with waves of people storming into stores, causing extreme losses.
However, these events are not considered looting, according to the California Penal Code, which defines looting as "theft or burglary ... during a 'state of emergency,' 'local emergency,' or 'evacuation order' resulting from an earthquake, fire, flood, riot or other natural or manmade disaster."
Calling the events in California looting carries a racist sentiment, said Lorenzo Boyd, a professor of criminal justice and community policing at the University of New Haven and a former police officer.
"Looting is a term that we typically use when people of color or urban dwellers are doing something," he said. "We tend not to use that term for other people when they do the exact same thing."
The public should also be wary of drawing a political connection between this weekend's "smash-and-grabs" and the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict, Boyd said.
"These types of massive, organized smash-and-grabs were happening before the Rittenhouse situation because it happens cyclically," he said. "It's a false equivalency. It's people trying to politicize crime."
Martin Reynolds, co-executive director of the Robert C. Maynard Institute of Journalism Education, echoed Boyd's notion that proper media literacy is essential to address the complicated issues facing society.
"People draw their own conclusions if the terminologies that you use are tethered to people's understanding of how they have been used in the past," he said.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; bidenvoters; california; crime; dystopia
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To: TigerClaws
Definition of loot: "something that is stolen or taken by force." Gravity sucks, so does reality.
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posted on
11/23/2021 12:41:46 PM PST
by
Ahithophel
(Communication is an art form susceptible to sudden technical failure)
Is car jacker a racist term as well?
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posted on
11/23/2021 12:42:14 PM PST
by
dsrtsage
( Complexity is just simple lacking imaginationd)
To: TigerClaws
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posted on
11/23/2021 12:44:50 PM PST
by
EEGator
To: TigerClaws
Looting' deemed a racist term. California experiencing 'organized robbery' reparations!
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posted on
11/23/2021 12:47:20 PM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(Want to make America great again. Stop talking about government reform. Thanks: precisionshootistst)
To: TigerClaws
Silly people.
They should call it charitable reparations for POC and cancel their police departments.
Oh, they already have.
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posted on
11/23/2021 12:48:28 PM PST
by
OpusatFR
To: TigerClaws
Like when Hillarys team wanted investigation change to “Matter “
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posted on
11/23/2021 12:51:12 PM PST
by
al baby
(Hi Mom Hi Dad)
To: EEGator
To: TigerClaws
cause looting isn’t done in highdollar neighborhoods, that’s done in the hoods...
these people be special, so a special name be required
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posted on
11/23/2021 12:56:38 PM PST
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: TigerClaws
"California experiencing 'organized robbery"
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posted on
11/23/2021 1:01:45 PM PST
by
clearcarbon
(Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
To: TigerClaws
Why? Was the word “reparations” already taken or something?
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posted on
11/23/2021 1:04:29 PM PST
by
Pilgrim's Progress
(http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
To: TigerClaws
Community policing gets robbed calling police no answer now what.
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posted on
11/23/2021 1:10:03 PM PST
by
Vaduz
(women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
To: TigerClaws
Maybe business owners could fight back with some “.45 ACP Noisemakers.”
To: TigerClaws
Yeah, I’m going to call it “looting,” because it’s not a racist term just because the newspeak pushers say it is.
I don’t speak that crap.
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posted on
11/23/2021 1:14:19 PM PST
by
Allegra
To: TigerClaws
I immediately expected this would be a Babylon Bee piece.
To: TigerClaws
This can easily be solved. Call in the national Guard with explicit orders to shoot looters on sight.
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posted on
11/23/2021 1:18:16 PM PST
by
SubVet72
To: TigerClaws
De-cluttering the retail establishments
To: TigerClaws
LoL - those academia eggheads only made it look worse with their comments. Looting is a crime of opportunity as laid out in the penal code, while "organized robbery" is an admission that a command & control structure is involved for the premeditation and planning of criminal activity. So now they're saying the precious urban dwelling "people of color" they're so concerned about being verbally slighted have formed a crime cartel, that can now be perceived as a bigger menace to the public than the random opportunists. LoL - way to go.
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posted on
11/23/2021 1:31:29 PM PST
by
lapsus calami
(What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
To: TigerClaws
Organized Robbery Man!
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posted on
11/23/2021 1:33:45 PM PST
by
rx
(Truth will out!)
To: TigerClaws
“Active Black Reparations”....
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posted on
11/23/2021 1:34:22 PM PST
by
Paladin2
(Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
To: TigerClaws
Perhaps there is a rule book somewhere that says you must not point out that all of the San Francisco looters who hit Nordstrom and Louis Vuitton are black.
There are hundreds of media reports talking about the brazen nature of the ongoing mob and rob situations, but no one seems to point out what they all have in common. All of the people doing the robbing are black.
Here’s an example of CBS outlining a massive mob-n-rob of Nordstroms just outside San Francisco. WATCH:
Look at how this media report shared the news:
…”Just before 9 p.m. dozens of cars pulled up to 1200 Broadway Plaza to block off the street and rush into store.” (link)
The cars did it!
Dozens of random cars just pulled up to the store and began robbing the place. It might sound crazy, but that’s exactly how NBC reporter and eye witness Jodi Hernandez, described the incident when she initially tweeted out the alarm as she watched. Look:
“About 25 cars just blocked the street and rushed into the Walnut Creek Nordstrom making off with goods before getting in cars and speeding away,” Hernandez said on Twitter.
25 cars blocked the street, rushed the store, stole stuff and then got into cars?
So the cars were in cahoots with more cars.
#Breaking About 25 cars just blocked the street and rushed into the Walnut Creek Nordstrom making off with goods before getting in cars snd speeding away. At least two people arrested at gunpoint. pic.twitter.com/AG3R94M9L3
— Jodi Hernandez (@JodiHernandezTV) November 21, 2021
All of this effort to twist language is intended to do what…. avoid noticing that all of the robbers are black?
This is silly .
“Walnut Creek Police investigators are in the process of reviewing surveillance footage to attempt to identify other suspects responsible for this brazen act,” the department said in Sunday’s statement. Nordstrom reopened as usual on Sunday. (more)
This must be “economic justice” or something.
The video from the Louis Vuitton mob-n-rob is below:
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posted on
11/23/2021 1:37:49 PM PST
by
Bratch
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