Looting DC tonight

[Anonymous]

It's a protest with all the variables that a protest entails. You can't schedule it to your liking or make it fit on your timeline and if you are pissed off because your insurance won't cover it then realize you have two problems not one.

[Anonymous]

Time for DC to end both the curfews & the lockdowns. Give people back their freedom. Neither are doing any good anyways.

Let's open up these businesses and get law-abiding residents walking the streets and eating at restaurants and getting drinks. That should help reduce the looting. Also time to take advantage of all the different types of police and military at DC's disposal and spread them out to patrol across the District till things calm down.

[Anonymous]

The military is not at DC’s disposal.

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Anonymous wrote:So if police have the resources to deploy hundreds of officers in riot gear to push protesters out of Lafayette Square or kettle them on downtown streets, why can't they deploy those officers to line up in front of all the businesses that are prone to looting?

Both actions were wrong. Burning down that police department was stupid and criminal. This is why some people stop listening to protesters. They think burning a city down is ok. I’m white and I care very deeply about what happened to George Floyd and the many other black victims, but the scene that night was just a reason for some whites and blacks to commit criminal acts. It’s wrong. George Floyd’s family said it many times. I donate to gofundme accounts, like George’s to be helpful. But it sickens me to see cities destroyed when that just causes more division. Trump is to blame for the Lafayette shit show.

Are you being intentionally obtuse or are you this dense in real life? Protesters aren't the ones looting. Protesting and looting are not the same thing.

You cannot say, with certainty, that no protesters were looting. Grow up.

Would it make you feel better if we found that one protester was looting? Would that help justify your desire to stop listening to protesters altogether or wanting them to stop protesting altogether? If one politician is found to be corrupt should we dismantle our government altogether? If one doctor's bad behavior kills a patient should we close the entire hospital system down? Are you listening to yourself and your reasoning?

Lots of protestors were looting.

If you were to ask an arrested looter, they would say that they went downtown to protest.

There is only a very small subset of looters who came in to loot. Just look at MPD's published arrest records.

Then such people are looters, not protestors. Because there's nothing about protesting that includes looting. They are opportunists who are using the protests as a cover to loot.

Normally protests are much better planned and organized but because of the coronavirus and the shutdown, it's hard to do. Would these people have shown up to protest under normal circumstances? No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Business owner here also. I'm pissed. The "but just use insurance" is not an answer. Your business is shut down for days or weeks doing repairs and replacing what was looted, and then your insurance premiums go up. How is this fair?

I'm all for protesting, as long as it's peaceful. Why is looting OK?

Looting is not ok.

I hope your business is ok.

[Anonymous]

Anyone who supports looting deserves to be in jail for aiding and abetting. This is insanity. Trump will be re-elected on this, if on nothing else. If the looting and lawlessness doesn’t stop NOW, our cities will be ruined for decades!!! And, we may not even have a country anymore. Violence is NEVER acceptable, and looting is violence. Do you teach your children that stealing is ok?? Shame on you!!

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Anonymous wrote:So if police have the resources to deploy hundreds of officers in riot gear to push protesters out of Lafayette Square or kettle them on downtown streets, why can't they deploy those officers to line up in front of all the businesses that are prone to looting?

Both actions were wrong. Burning down that police department was stupid and criminal. This is why some people stop listening to protesters. They think burning a city down is ok. I’m white and I care very deeply about what happened to George Floyd and the many other black victims, but the scene that night was just a reason for some whites and blacks to commit criminal acts. It’s wrong. George Floyd’s family said it many times. I donate to gofundme accounts, like George’s to be helpful. But it sickens me to see cities destroyed when that just causes more division. Trump is to blame for the Lafayette shit show.

Are you being intentionally obtuse or are you this dense in real life? Protesters aren't the ones looting. Protesting and looting are not the same thing.

You cannot say, with certainty, that no protesters were looting. Grow up.

Would it make you feel better if we found that one protester was looting? Would that help justify your desire to stop listening to protesters altogether or wanting them to stop protesting altogether? If one politician is found to be corrupt should we dismantle our government altogether? If one doctor's bad behavior kills a patient should we close the entire hospital system down? Are you listening to yourself and your reasoning?

I support the protesters.
I donated to George’s gofundme and others.
I was expressing my opinion of looting.....the title of the thread.

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Anonymous wrote:Business owner here also. I'm pissed. The "but just use insurance" is not an answer. Your business is shut down for days or weeks doing repairs and replacing what was looted, and then your insurance premiums go up. How is this fair?

I'm all for protesting, as long as it's peaceful. Why is looting OK?

Exactly No One anywhere has said that "looting" is okay. But you know that already, right?

Um, have you read the other comments just in this thread? PLENTY of people have flat-out said that the looting is justified. We’re living in a crazy world.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand this thread. It hurts my head.

Go lay down then.

Lie down, dear.

FO my dear.

[Anonymous]

Grubbs Pharmacies and Morgan Pharmacy were looted numerous times by African Americans. It was very sad to see the owner Dr. Kim talking about the looting. He said they serve an underserved community and most of their customers are African American. They serve the HIV community. A lot of very expensive HIV drugs were stolen. The whole thing is sad.

Gofundme for cleanup
https://www.gofundme.com/f/jys3yx-support-dc-small-business-owners?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=m_pd+share-sheet

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Looks like all the head cases who used to post that "Bowser won't OPEN UP because she wants the city to COLLAPSE!!" have found a new storyline. I'm glad they've found another home.

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Anonymous wrote:Looters are on the move. Headed to Georgetown for ransacking #2. So shameful that our mayor is ok with this. Many of the stores up Wisconsin are independent and barely squeak by.

Oh my god, you pathetic piece of trash. I already busted you lying about this on another thread that got deleted 5 minutes ago. Are you a bot or a Trumper? You’re lying to incite fear.

For everyone’s information this poster already tried scaring people by telling them that the Georgetown BID sent out an email telling businesses that looters were on the way to Georgetown. Except this vile THUG didn’t expect that someone else would also be a BID member and bust their fake news. Here is what the BID email actually says word for word:

Dear Georgetown BID Members,

MPD just informed us that a large group of protestors, accompanied by police, is headed into Georgetown. They are peacefully protesting and we hope it remains this way, but please be aware.

Why would a large group of protesters head to Georgetown? It’s a hike from the White House and mostly known for retail, not government. I would certainly be upset if I had a business there.

You would be upset if peaceful protesters came to your neighborhood accompanied by police? Are you brain dead?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The looting of any remaining businesses was authorized tonight. 11pm curfew like the disastrous Sunday night. As a business owner, I’m expecting to lose my storefront. Seems like the district should pay for it. Totally not ok.

So what happened last night?
I thought the authorization was given.

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Anonymous wrote:The looting of any remaining businesses was authorized tonight. 11pm curfew like the disastrous Sunday night. As a business owner, I’m expecting to lose my storefront. Seems like the district should pay for it. Totally not ok.

So what happened last night?
I thought the authorization was given.

+million! DS came home before 7pm, all was peaceful he said prior. OP has more to fear from white supremacists, tbh!

[Anonymous]

I drove down from NW DC to my office on 14th street today and went right by Lafayette Park on H street. There is some plywood up downtown on lots (but not all) building windows and a little bit of graffitti (most of that on the plywood) but otherwise things look fine. It is of course awful for the businesses that suffered significant damage, but the idea that this is similar to what happened in 1968 is simply wrong. Nothing that has happened so far would take a year to recover from, much less decades. I do not support looting, but at the same time, I am not losing sleep over the fate of Citibank because some of its windows were broken (and similar things have happened multiple other times during my time in DC without it causing a major disruption of the city).