‘Experts’ warn against using term ‘looting’ amid alarming outbreaks of looting
November 23, 2021 | Tom Tillison
Amid a growing trend of flash mobs storming retail stores in Democrat-run cities and emptying the shelves, there’s a debate in the media over whether to call the suspects robbers, thieves, or looters.
Not surprisingly, given current circumstances in America, concern about advancing racial stigmas are the driving factor here.
The debate does serve as a convenient distraction to local officials in places like San Francisco all but making shoplifting legal by reducing the penalties for such crimes. Criminal justice reform efforts also eliminate or reduce cash bonds, turning jails into revolving doors that allow criminals to re-offend — the latest and most lethal example of this was just seen in Waukesha, Wisc., where a career criminal and registered sex offender with an active arrest warrant in Nevada was released on $1,000 bond after allegedly running over a woman earlier this month, only to then run over scores of people marching in a Christmas parade, killing five people and injuring 48 others, with small children as young as 3 years old among the victims.
San Francisco-based ABC7 reported that police departments “have called what happened at various retail stores this weekend ‘looting,'” before asking are the crimes “truly considered looting?”
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