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Woke Crime Experts: Using ‘Looting’ to Describe Group Burglary Is Racist
breitbart ^ | 24 Nov 2021 | PENNY STARR

Posted on 11/25/2021 6:17:20 AM PST by MarvinStinson

Two men who teach criminal justice are speaking out about use of the word “looting” to describe the crime spree by groups breaking in o luxury retailers in California to steal merchandize – claiming the term is a racist.

“Looting is a term that we typically use when people of color or urban dwellers are doing something,” Lorenzo Boyd, a professor of criminal justice & community policing at the University of New Haven and a former police office, told ABC 7.

“We tend not to use that term for other people when they do the exact same thing,’ Boyd said.

Martin Reynolds, co-executive director of the Robert C. Maynard Institute of Journalism Education, also lashed out at using the term because it signals “the depiction of the flash mobs running roughshod through the aisles of Louis Vuitton and other retailers.”

“This seems like it’s an organized smash and grab robbery,’ Reynolds said. “This doesn’t seem like looting. We’re thinking of scenarios where first responders are completely overwhelmed. And folks often may be on their own.”

The U.K.’s Daily Mail reported on the semantics debate:

Their comments come after at least seven robberies involving gangs with as many as 50 thieves ransacked California stores, and each individual could avoid heavy criminal charges due to the state’s 2014 law dictating that anyone caught shoplifting items whose value does not exceed $950 would be only charged with misdemeanors.

Julio Rosas, a Marine and Town Hall contributor, quipped on Twitter: “Future CNN chyron: Mostly peaceful shopping in the Bay Area.”

Dinesh D’Souza tweeted, “Experts refuse to call a spade a spade, unless, of course, it’s a spade wielded by a white male.”

Ex-Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker cut to the chase: “It’s looting. Just like there were riots in Kenosha, not just protests.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; california; gavinnewsom; looting; lorenzoboyd; martinreynolds; racist; woke
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To: MarvinStinson

Dealing with reality is racism.

OK then.


41 posted on 11/25/2021 7:19:00 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Elvis is dead and Joe Biden doesn't feel so good himself.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Dealing with reality is racism.

OK then.


42 posted on 11/25/2021 7:19:02 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Elvis is dead and Joe Biden doesn't feel so good himself.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Loony Leftists are offended by something.

Stop the presses!

I wonder: Do they coordinate their list of things to be offended by/about, or does each Loony get to make his/her own list?

Do I care that a Loony Leftis is offended by something? looting, looter, loot. Nah.


43 posted on 11/25/2021 7:19:25 AM PST by TomGuy (!)
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To: MarvinStinson
We're not "looting", this is mass burglary so it's okay.


44 posted on 11/25/2021 7:26:18 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: MarvinStinson
"It's beginning to loot a lot like Christmas

Everywhere you go..."

45 posted on 11/25/2021 7:30:29 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

How about calling THEM ‘targets of opportunity’???

They have abdicated their place in society.


46 posted on 11/25/2021 7:32:45 AM PST by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: MarvinStinson

It’s what commies do: change the meaning of words.

Satan showed the way, telling Eve that God’s description of sin was inaccurate.


47 posted on 11/25/2021 7:34:05 AM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: scottiemom

Those LOOTERS seem to be driving pretty nice vehicles for being on welfare.


48 posted on 11/25/2021 7:36:14 AM PST by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: TomGuy

Along with “DEFUND THE POLICE”


49 posted on 11/25/2021 7:37:32 AM PST by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: MarvinStinson

The blacks want ‘respect’ from the whites and they put out this kind of garbage regarding verbage?

INCREDIBLE !!!!!!!


50 posted on 11/25/2021 7:41:02 AM PST by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: MarvinStinson

What a semi-truck load of malarkey! These two idiots are themselves making something out to be racist by ASSUMING that looting is mostly done by blacks. I would not ordinarily identify blacks as looters automatically. But if these two fools want us to do so, since the majority of these latter-day looters ARE black, so be it. If blacks don’t want to perpetuate “racist” labels, then DON’T COMMIT CRIMES. The vast majority of major and violent crimes ARE committed by blacks, so it is not racist to say it; it is simply stating facts.


51 posted on 11/25/2021 7:42:38 AM PST by EinNYC
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To: MarvinStinson

I’ve been watching this develop.

Permit me to elaborate on my thoughts:

If they can modify the definition of other words to suit current events (e.g., ‘vaccine’), then a modification of criminal code and the word ‘looter’ is in order.

I am not being flippant.

Old definition under California penal code (I will not address the plethora of definitions elsewhere other than to cite the inconsistencies which need to be clarified):

“In Penal Code 463 PC, California law defines the crime of looting as taking advantage of a state of emergency to commit burglary, grand theft or petty theft. Looting can be charged as a misdemeanor or a felony and is punishable by up to 3 years in jail.”

Suggested new state penal code:

“Looting is the act of multiple individuals of either coordination or convenience, the instigation of a lawless condition whereas numbers of thieves and/or vandals target a home or business, resulting in larceny, property damage and/or injury or death. Age, race or gender are not discriminatory under this code. The act of looting by participation creates a grave hazard to public safety. Because of the grave threat to public safety prosecuted by the civil disturbance of multiple individuals under looting, lethal force is justifiable as both a deterrence and response, is punishable as a felony, in combination with accessory charges for acts by others during the event and any additional criminal actions.”

I write this in distinction with other terms which describe acts under war, such as pillaging. The fact that they are highlighting the distinction between acts and the legal definitions mandates that the public apply pressure to see such a definition adopted across the country on a state-level basis, no different than the pressure brought to bear by parents against school boards.

We are at war. The sooner we all acknowledge that fact, the better off we will all be, regardless at which level of escalation which exists at a particular moment in time.

If this is my reaction to an act which hardly threatens me or my family, imagine my reaction to the ‘mandate’ should it be found lawful by a court friendly to the tyrants...


52 posted on 11/25/2021 7:47:07 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: MarvinStinson
“We tend not to use that term for other people when they do the exact same thing,’ Boyd said.

Um, yes we do. We absolutely, 100% do. Idiot.

53 posted on 11/25/2021 7:47:51 AM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: The Duke

Got that right. Funny: I referred to democrats the other day as ‘the walking dead’...


54 posted on 11/25/2021 7:48:24 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: MarvinStinson

So they commit crimes of which they will not be arrested or jailed and we have these numb nuts saying they want the word looting removed because its racist. There needs to be a serious correction in this country


55 posted on 11/25/2021 7:48:47 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: MarvinStinson

“Everything is Ra—cist,
In its own wa—y,
Like a starry summer night,
Or a snow-covered winter’s da—-y”
(Heaven forfend!)


56 posted on 11/25/2021 7:50:24 AM PST by _longranger81
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To: MarvinStinson

Crime experts


57 posted on 11/25/2021 8:11:44 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Precisely how many crimes does a woke person have to commit to be considered an expert?


58 posted on 11/25/2021 8:17:29 AM PST by John Milner (Marching for oPeace is like breathing for food. )
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To: MarvinStinson
There was lot of looting going on after the Johnstown Flood and the San Francisco earthquake. Citizen patrols where organized and looters where hung and left hanging for all to see.
59 posted on 11/25/2021 8:20:58 AM PST by 4yearlurker (Freedom is just an injection away Comrades.)
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To: MarvinStinson

“Looting is a term that we typically use when people of color or urban dwellers are doing something,”


So all people who ‘dwell’ in urban areas are ‘people of color’? Is that what they are saying?


60 posted on 11/25/2021 8:39:03 AM PST by hanamizu
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