(The Hill) — High-end retailers including Yves Saint Laurent and Louis Vuitton were among the stores looted and vandalized Friday night in the San Francisco area, prompting outrage from the city’s mayor and police chief. A spokesperson for the San Francisco Police Department said that officers responded just after 8 p.m. “to possible looting and…
The recent rise of “smash-and-grab” robberies in California appears to be spreading across the country. Upscale department stores in and around Los Angeles and San Francisco during the past week were victims of incidents in which mobs of looters broke windows, beat and pepper-sprayed employees, and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in goods. Now,…
Many police departments hoping for the best, planning for the worst around Election Day. The backdrop of a summer of civil unrest in America’s largest cities and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic looms large as motivated voters prepare to submit their ballots for president in less than two weeks. Police departments – many of which saw days, weeks, and even monthslong…
We have to rename everything now, in deference to the violent mob. If they don’t get what they want they’ll, “Burn down the system.” After the fires they’ve set, the looting they’ve done, we’re supposed to believe that’s just a metaphor, open to interpretation. It’s a “symbolic taking.” No one dares talk back, let alone…