Why They Did It: Understanding the hundreds of looters after Ferguson

Agreed. They did it because they could. Every protestor nationwide who looted, who disrupted traffic, who organized a protest or march without permits, who threatened others belongs in jail.

They all feel those things are OWED to them, so they took them.

Work Boots? Whadat?

“The opportunity was there, because police were busy. St. Louis County Police Officer Shawn McGuire explains, “They took advantage of the Ferguson situation. They took advantage of police officers responding to very violent calls that night, with shootings, and fires being set.”

More like cowering in fear guarding the police station. In most of
the footage that I saw the cops weren’t doing anything. And like
any pack of animals the criminals sensed that fear. There
was little if any opposition.

Why They Did It?!

Al and Jesse, the JustUs Brothers, have told them that they can and that they are entitled to it. For generations!

Lack of Morals. And, the owner wasn't standing there with a shotgun.

Not much to understand, here.

——More like cowering in fear guarding the police station-—

Actually, the National Guard was guarding the police stations while the police were gathered in areas near the looting but were never ordered to engage

Because they are street savages.
Because they knew they wouldn’t be arrested.
Because they were “oppressed”.
Because they won’t admit their pathologies are self-inflicted.

” these videos also provide a unique opportunity for law enforcement and criminologists to take a closer look at their behavior.”

I’m pretty sure it’s in the ANIMAL BEHAVIOR category..........bit I’m no expert.

Free at last, FREE AT LAST !!

My new flat screen TV is free at last !

End. There is not underlying motive beyond that.

Next up: Dr. Remy Cross will explain why water feels wet.

Compare and contrast the "state of", "health", "number headed by a father" and "economic condition" of the average Black Family before Jesse Jackson began his "Community Organizing" with Operation PUSH in 1971, and what it is today.

Jesse Jackson marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 60's. Following the death of MLK, there was a power struggle between Ralph Abernathy and Jesse Jackson for the succession of leadership from MLK.* Jackson parlayed his notoriety with MLK into personal gain.

Compare and contrast the economic condition of Jesse Jackson with the average Black Family today.

* Jackson became involved in SCLC leadership disputes following the assassination of King on April 4, 1968. When King was shot, Jackson was in the parking lot one floor below. Jackson told reporters he was the last person who speak to King, and that King died in his arms – an account that several King aides disputed.

In the spring of 1971, Abernathy ordered Jackson to move the national office of Operation Breadbasket from Chicago to Atlanta and sought to place another person in charge of local Chicago activities, but Jackson refused to move. He organized the October 1971 Black Expo in Chicago, a trade and business fair to promote black capitalism and grass roots political power. The five-day event was attended by black businessmen from 40 states, as well as politicians such as Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes, and Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley. Daley's presence was seen as a testament to the growing political and economic power of blacks.

In December 1971, Jackson and Abernathy had a complete falling out, with the split described as part of a leadership struggle between Jackson, who had a national profile, and Abernathy, whose prominence in the civil rights movement was beginning to wane. The break began when Abernathy questioned the handling of receipts from the Black Expo, and then suspended Jackson as leader of Operation Breadbasket for not obtaining permission to form non-profit corporations. Al Sharpton, then youth group leader of the SCLC, left the organization to protest Jackson's treatment and formed the National Youth Movement. Jackson, his entire Breadbasket staff, and 30 of the 35 board members resigned from the SCLC and began planning a new organization. Time magazine quoted Jackson as saying at that time that the traditional civil rights movement had lost its "offensive thrust."

Yeah, not hard to understand why people raised in an anti-Western sub-culture would see no problem stealing things that weren’t theirs.

How about...to paraphrase a former US President....”because they could”

Why could they do it ? Pick any of the other responses listed here

Honor among thieves?

Character is what you do when no one is looking.

The study is just another “looting” scam. The government will pay in the six fiures for this study that will, after 600 pages of BS, concluded what has been already stated by so many here.

Because the President and his media stirred them up with a false narrative. Anything to promote the Marxist agenda including riots and deaths.

Pray America is waking

I see from the news this morning that police have been forced to remove the Detroit walkin man (James Robertson) from his home for his own safety. Seems that his neighbors were aggressively demanding their “share” so police were forced to move he and his girlfriend to a better neighborhood.