Or they heard from those who were in the Rodney King riots that TP was extremely hard to come by once the looting started.
On the plus side, large screen TVs are a whole lot lighter than they used to be, so less trips to the hospital on the public dime for bad backs and hernias.
“Back in my day when we rioted, TV’s were really heavy and only 22 inches and black and white, and we used aluminum foil for rabbit ears!”