Posted on 05/31/2020 5:00:53 PM PDT by karpov
In downtown Chicago, people crawled through the partially shattered exterior window of a Nike store and ran out carrying brightly colored athletic gear and sneakers.
On Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, they ignited garbage cans and broke locks on luxury stores, sweeping up armfuls of designer handbags and jeans.
And as night fell on Minneapolis, the heart of widening protests set off by the death of an African-American man in police custody there, business owners stood outside their doors and pleaded with agitators to spare the enterprises that many said they had spent their life savings to build.
“I was outside saying, ‘Please, I don’t have insurance!’” said Hussein Aloshani, an immigrant from Iraq, waving his arms in frustration as he recounted the scene Friday night outside the deli his family owns.
Businesses across the country suffered destruction over the weekend as protesters unleashed their anger over the death of George Floyd on commercial enterprises — from the offices of major multinational corporations and banks to family-owned restaurants and bars.
In some places, demonstrators scrawled graffiti on storefronts decrying police brutality against African-Americans, or echoing some of Mr. Floyd’s final words: “I can’t breathe.”
In others, they hurled crowbars and hammers at windows, and used gasoline to burn buildings to the ground.
Public officials said they were investigating whether political agitators posing as protesters may have led some of the looting. In some cities, peaceful protesters marching against police violence were outnumbered by others, such as white anarchists, who seemed more bent on destruction than messaging.
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Oh come on
everyone has a soul
Some people have seared their consciences so that they do horrible things without it bothering them one second
Even Hillary had a soul before she sold it to Satan
The events will be declared an insurrection and damage will not be covered by insurance.
“ The rioters will learn their lesson when those stores never reopen, the storefronts remain burned-out and they have to go miles out of their way to shop”
You are right about consequences, but not on lessons learned - because of course they will then blame their desolate neighborhoods on “institutional racism”.
Alcatraz needs to be reopened as a Federal prison for indigenous terrorists.
“Caitlin Dickerson out of her NY Times job in 3..2..1”
Lol. That was my first thought!
5-10 years from now some liberal politician will be whining about food deserts in these areas.
There really is no such thing. Business insurance policies exclude riots, wars and pandemics.
And Spktyr here on FR was one of them.
[Designate them domestic terrorists and drop their asses in Gitmo and I guarantee they will melt back into the sewers they came from.]
Most Americans probably do not even know that SpaceX launched yesterday.
[You are right about consequences, but not on lessons learned - because of course they will then blame their desolate neighborhoods on “institutional racism”.]
I just renewed my business insurance in February. I’m pretty safe, but maybe should have paid the little bit extra to cover loss due to terrorism.
Although I’m sure there would have been fine print that it didn’t cover “peaceful protests that turned violent”.
I’m still not Korean, though, and I never wore a stupid headband. :P As I posted elsewhere, there were a lot of us on rooftops that weren’t Korean.
This rather iconic bit of video is more typical of what it looked like to be there, and what the people looked like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzkBGQx3HAc
And as expected, the police and governments have become the enemy. They do not stop or arrest looters or attackers but immediately arrest anyone who tries to defend themself or property.
JoMa
We at looking at a high percentage of this generation whose parents taught them the world revolved around them. (Easy way to parent.)
I think we are looking at a bunch of indoctrinated narcissist.
I won’t see it but this has a good chance of not ending well.
Federal prison and ordnance testing site.
Dual purpose, for a little while.
Sorry, I knew you were not Korean from reading your prior posts, but I still am amazed at what you guys did.
the parents weren’t around, they didn’t parent at all
everyone in the g-dam house glued to a tube or tsblet all the frigging time
I did a lot less than most, being underage at the time, and I wasn’t even at the worst of it.
As I said elsewhere, it was a lot easier to choose to do what we did, knowing the cops had abandoned the city. I am not certain that I would make the same decision today if the police hadn’t bailed and instead were arresting defenders. So the LAPD bailing was actually good in a number of ways.
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