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.
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Flee Califlower while you still can...
Thisis insane!
Dog whistle! Dog whistle!
And I thought Commissar Uncle Joe Stalinbiden was an idiot and brain dead. These folks out in Kaliforniahomostan take the cake.
Why do I get the sense that folks not willing to call crime CRIME ... aren’t going to do a good job policing it?
Even if they arrest people the Soros DAs will have them back on the street the next day and a majority of them will see their criminal charges dropped.
Politicians commit crime and politicians politicize crime.
And it's a crime.
I’ll be my own authority in this matter, thank you. It’s looting.
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Guess I wouldn’t understand
It be a black thang
loot (n.)
“goods taken from an enemy, etc.,” 1802 (in Charles James’s “Military Dictionary,” London, which defines it as “Indian term for plunder or pillage”), Anglo-Indian, from Hindi lut, from Sanskrit loptram, lotram “booty, stolen property,” from PIE *roup-tro-, from root *reup- “to snatch” (see rip (v.)).
LOOTICS, Ind. A term in India to express a body of irregular horsemen, who plunder and lay waste the country, and harrass the enemy in their march. They may be compared to the Hulans of Europe and other free-booters.
LOOTY WALLOW, Ind. A term of the same import as Lootics.
[James, “Military Dictionary”]
loot (v.)
“to plunder; carry off as loot,” 1821, from loot (n.). Related: Looted; looting.
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Basically, EVERYTHING IS RACIST. Just saying someone commits a crime is a criminal is racist.
This is the Hobbes vs. Locke debate enacted on our streets. Hobbes is being proven the more accurate of the two as to human nature.
Undocumented looters?
Isn’t it racist to say that blacks and looting are associated together? Shouldn’t these people cancel themselves?
Tomayto, Tomahto...
CA is changing the name from rioters, to opportunity dreamers.
Well, since you put it that way, the looters should do whatever they want.
Carry on.
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