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Reminder: BLM protests had wide-scale looting. Looters breaking into luxury stores and hauling off with anything not bolted down. Not the same scope. Not the sa

• stonogo 6y ago
  They looted the capitol building today. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2021/01/06/signs-podiums-tv-equipment-trump-supporters-loot-and-destroy-during-capitol-hill-takeover/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2021/01/06/signs-p...
  • jonkho 6y ago
    *wide-spread looting lasting for days and days on private businesses. Tally the dollar amounts and do the math. I stand by my point 100%.
• vkou 6y ago
  Reminder - in Seattle, looting and property damage only started hours after the police started throwing tear gas and firing less-lethal bullets into protestors, and the entire downtown area turned into chaos. In Bellevue, the police did neither, and instead, talked with the protesters, and there was no looting anywhere near the protest areas. If you actually cared about minimizing looting, you should probably not attack peaceful protestors on public streets. The chaos that starts is what gives looters cover to operate.
  • jonkho 6y ago
    Yet another reminder: looting perhaps already started elsewhere in other parts of the country. Also the Rodney king riots had a precedent of looting. Learning from past lessons would be wise. Also as you imply, why would being treated poorly by a public servant (the police) justify the looting of an unrelated private party? It doesn’t. One is not a justified cause for the other.
  • j8hn 6y ago
    This is false and you are spreading misinformation about what happened in Seattle and Bellevue.