Anonymous
Post 06/03/2020 16:29     Subject: Looting DC tonight
Anonymous wrote:The looting is really damaging the cause. You can tell your kids all kinds of enlightened things, but what they see on the nightly news is young African American males violently shattering glass & stealing. The looting needs to end.


For hours of film. During daylight too.
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2020 16:27     Subject: Looting DC tonight
Anonymous wrote:I thought folks were itching for the stay-at-home orders to be lifted and crying for things to open up. Now you saying y'all WANT to be locked down some more?


People want safety in their communities. Sadly in many areas businesses and restaurants just started opening post Covid. They were open several days. They were either
looted with expensive loss (not covered by insurance as insurance does not cover civil unrest) or choose to close to protect workers and the property.

Understand Target is estimating 6 months of repairs to reopen the Target that was first looted in Minneapolis.
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2020 16:26     Subject: Looting DC tonight
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The looting is really damaging the cause. You can tell your kids all kinds of enlightened things, but what they see on the nightly news is young African American males violently shattering glass & stealing. The looting needs to end.

Do you show them the young white males breaking windows and stealing, too? Because I've seen plenty of that on the news and on my FB/Twitter feed, all over the country. When you see that, do you think less of white people?

I suppose racists will find what they are looking for, though.

The curfew doesn't stop looting. Police can still arrest looters. Maybe if they aren't busy harassing peaceful protesters, they'll have more personnel to maintain order in shopping areas.


Ok, so this guy busting up a store looks white. And the guy trying to stop him looks Black. But really it's not because otherwise my racist preconceived notions would be completely wrong.

https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1266132570980454400?s=20

I'm sure there aren't dozens more videos like that.
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2020 16:24     Subject: Looting DC tonight
Anonymous wrote:
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.


Who authorizes looting?

Cynicism is a DC thing.
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2020 16:23     Subject: Looting DC tonight
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

What an angry thread. Did you board your windows, OP? If so, you should be fine.


Um, they are just prying the boards off with tools. Duh. We are in a state of total lawless anarchy.


Is this OP? Are they right now trying to pry off the plywood you installed? Call the police.

If you’re talking in general, and you fear it will happen to you, use twice the amount of fasteners even if you think it won’t look good later when you take it off. Vandalism and theft are mostly crimes of opportunity - make it harder for them!



Looting is a crime of extreme violence.
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2020 16:22     Subject: Looting DC tonight
Anonymous wrote:Move your business out to nova, we're very business friendly and very few "problematic individuals" live out here!


You have plenty of defense industry executives out there who are looting waay more money than a few idiots breaking glass.

I'd prefer we deal with your "problematic individuals".
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2020 16:22     Subject: Looting DC tonight
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.


Who authorizes looting?
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2020 16:20     Subject: Looting DC tonight
Anonymous wrote:The looting is really damaging the cause. You can tell your kids all kinds of enlightened things, but what they see on the nightly news is young African American males violently shattering glass & stealing. The looting needs to end.

Do you show them the young white males breaking windows and stealing, too? Because I've seen plenty of that on the news and on my FB/Twitter feed, all over the country. When you see that, do you think less of white people?

I suppose racists will find what they are looking for, though.

The curfew doesn't stop looting. Police can still arrest looters. Maybe if they aren't busy harassing peaceful protesters, they'll have more personnel to maintain order in shopping areas.
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2020 16:20     Subject: Looting DC tonight
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So we should just continue to have cops murder black men because some people might loot during a protest?


The police kill more whites than blacks every year.... but we never see anyone -- including blacks -- protesting about it.


OMG right! White people are sooo oppressed!

I have NO freedoms anymore. Y'all took away my freedom to own slaves. So RUDE! I am so oppressed!
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2020 16:19     Subject: Looting DC tonight
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

What an angry thread. Did you board your windows, OP? If so, you should be fine.


Um, they are just prying the boards off with tools. Duh. We are in a state of total lawless anarchy.


Is this OP? Are they right now trying to pry off the plywood you installed? Call the police.

If you’re talking in general, and you fear it will happen to you, use twice the amount of fasteners even if you think it won’t look good later when you take it off. Vandalism and theft are mostly crimes of opportunity - make it harder for them!



In NYC they pulled the plywood off and still looted. It looks like 3rd world city.
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2020 16:17     Subject: Looting DC tonight
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.


A friend had her store looted in NYC and front glass totally gone. She is hysterical and lived and worked there for decades. She is pulling out.

Saks has barbed wire fence in front of the store in NYC and men with guard dogs to protect the store.
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2020 16:15     Subject: Looting DC tonight
Like so many other mayors across the country, Bowser has gone against her oath to faithfully execute the laws of her city.

I'm a small business owner in Virginia. If I owned a business or storefront in the District, I'd be gone. The mayor has broken the backbone of her city. It's appalling.

Not that it should matter, but I'm AA.
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2020 16:13     Subject: Looting DC tonight
Anonymous wrote:So we should just continue to have cops murder black men because some people might loot during a protest?


The police kill more whites than blacks every year.... but we never see anyone -- including blacks -- protesting about it.
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2020 16:11     Subject: Looting DC tonight
Move your business out to nova, we're very business friendly and very few "problematic individuals" live out here!
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2020 16:09     Subject: Looting DC tonight
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Over the weekend, I ran into a middle-aged AA man outside a neighborhood store that had been vandalized the night before. He was angry and upset by both the police brutality and the vandalism. And he supported the protestors. But I suppose you would say he couldn’t possibly hold all those opinions at the same time?


Over the weekend, I ran into an older AA man who said you made up your story.


So you believe every AA person believes what you believe and reacts they way you think they should?


Yes of course, PP does. So do many people. This is why we have a problem in America.

I have seen so many people post about how upset they are about the looting. OK. Looting is not good, objectively, but really?
I have seen -- honestly, I think don't think I have seen any -- almost no posts about people who have first hand experience at being at a protest the week, for any duration. I get why you wouldn't go due to COVID, I get that. It is risky, but meaningful to many.

I think DCUM is unfortunately filled with more people who live .25 - 3 miles from the looted areas (which were a lot of places) and got real real nervous the past few nights as a CVS within an 8 minute walk of their house got looted. I think people decided that affected them more than the whole situation with systemic violence against black people. Because it does, actually. Their neighborhood CVS, where they buy a late night pint of Ben and Jerry's and paper towels and that cheap $19.99 anti-aging cream that works really well, being boarded up and closed for a while, and the fear that surrounds that, is more impactful to them than what the protests are all about. So that's what they shout about.

Feeling that is uncomfortable, but not doing anything about it to snap out of that frame and address the empathetic view is more detrimental. And guess what? It will lead to more looting.


Riots destroy cities for decades. We've seen how this movie ends, and it's not with the CVS getting repaired and everything going back to normal. People who are thinking about where to start businesses don't pick the place that got burned down last year. People who have choices about where to live don't pick that area, either. And when the next set of elections come around, fewer people want to vote for the party associated - fairly or not - with burning down police stations. This isn't about the CVS down my street getting looted, although if I were someone without a car who got my prescriptions there I don't think I'd be going "but really?" about it. It's about seeing a massive abdication of responsibility on the part of local leaders to keep their cities intact, with encouragement from a lot of people who should know better.