Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WJLA ABC 7 News is reporting that Tenleytown and Friendship Heights residents are being told by MPD that while they were present at the looting of the CVS and Target last night, they were told not to interfere. Who would give this order and has the Mayor fired them yet today?

So Police no longer investigate property theft, they no longer investigate auto theft and now they do not interfere with looting?

This is incredibly racist. Property is insured and can be replaced. Black lives are worth more than an insurance deductible. We must support the protestors opportunity to express their message of hundreds of years of oppression.

Should they loot every store while protesting?
Totally justified?
Defund DC police.
Let people by guns and hire the police as private security force.
Anyone who support the looters should open their doors.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Me and my wife have three doctors we need to see in Chevy Chase, Md. we are seniors and these doctors ave very important to us, when we drove north bound on Wisconson ave. Chevy Chase looked like a third world country with all the windows broken out along the way. My advice to the mayor of Chevy Chase Md. is the tax revenue that you will loose from all the businesses that were destroyed pays you and your police Departments salary's so you need to get a clue and try to preserve the reputation of your once beautiful city.

Signed Anomyous

ALL of downtown DC is boarded up. 2*4s thick with plywood. May as well leave them there, no one is working in the restaurants nor offices. Just come ASD your spray paint layer to what’s already there.

Just wait for the rent rolls. dC might take a big hit like NYC is- people are not coming back to work in the city and may even relocate entirely.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Me and my wife have three doctors we need to see in Chevy Chase, Md. we are seniors and these doctors ave very important to us, when we drove north bound on Wisconson ave. Chevy Chase looked like a third world country with all the windows broken out along the way. My advice to the mayor of Chevy Chase Md. is the tax revenue that you will loose from all the businesses that were destroyed pays you and your police Departments salary's so you need to get a clue and try to preserve the reputation of your once beautiful city.

Signed Anomyous

ALL of downtown DC is boarded up. 2*4s thick with plywood. May as well leave them there, no one is working in the restaurants nor offices. Just come ASD your spray paint layer to what’s already there.

Just wait for the rent rolls. dC might take a big hit like NYC is- people are not coming back to work in the city and may even relocate entirely.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WJLA ABC 7 News is reporting that Tenleytown and Friendship Heights residents are being told by MPD that while they were present at the looting of the CVS and Target last night, they were told not to interfere. Who would give this order and has the Mayor fired them yet today?

So Police no longer investigate property theft, they no longer investigate auto theft and now they do not interfere with looting?

This is incredibly racist. Property is insured and can be replaced. Black lives are worth more than an insurance deductible. We must support the protestors opportunity to express their message of hundreds of years of oppression.

Anonymous wrote:WJLA ABC 7 News is reporting that Tenleytown and Friendship Heights residents are being told by MPD that while they were present at the looting of the CVS and Target last night, they were told not to interfere. Who would give this order and has the Mayor fired them yet today?

So Police no longer investigate property theft, they no longer investigate auto theft and now they do not interfere with looting?

Anonymous wrote:Since there was no further looting in Friendship Heights or Tenleytown after that night, and since no people were injured in any confrontations between police and vandals, it sort of seems like this decision that everyone has spent five pages criticizing may have been the right one?

The risk of a police intervention in a situation like this is that something bad -- people breaking into shops after hours when there's no one else in the store and stealing stuff -- becomes something worse -- a full-on street fight between cops and looters. The District should certainly be willing to help compensate businesses that lost money as a result of the break-ins or pay them back for the plywood many put up, but as a resident of the neighborhood, I'm glad the police didn't run the risk of increased violence in the name of protecting property.

Anonymous wrote:Since there was no further looting in Friendship Heights or Tenleytown after that night, and since no people were injured in any confrontations between police and vandals, it sort of seems like this decision that everyone has spent five pages criticizing may have been the right one?

The risk of a police intervention in a situation like this is that something bad -- people breaking into shops after hours when there's no one else in the store and stealing stuff -- becomes something worse -- a full-on street fight between cops and looters. The District should certainly be willing to help compensate businesses that lost money as a result of the break-ins or pay them back for the plywood many put up, but as a resident of the neighborhood, I'm glad the police didn't run the risk of increased violence in the name of protecting property.

Anonymous wrote:Since there was no further looting in Friendship Heights or Tenleytown after that night, and since no people were injured in any confrontations between police and vandals, it sort of seems like this decision that everyone has spent five pages criticizing may have been the right one?

The risk of a police intervention in a situation like this is that something bad -- people breaking into shops after hours when there's no one else in the store and stealing stuff -- becomes something worse -- a full-on street fight between cops and looters. The District should certainly be willing to help compensate businesses that lost money as a result of the break-ins or pay them back for the plywood many put up, but as a resident of the neighborhood, I'm glad the police didn't run the risk of increased violence in the name of protecting property.[/quote

Agreed. Had there been violent confrontation, it might also have encouraged others to be violent and destructive. Instead, the looting ended quickly, and the peaceful protests became the dominant narrative.

Also, the fact that things were not burned down means that the recovery will be much quicker.