The US needs to stop “stealing” the oil from the Syrian people and state, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday, after meeting with his Iranian and Turkish counterparts in Tehran. The three guarantors of the “Astana process” also agreed that the US should leave the trans-Euphrates, and stop making …
Read More »Smash-and-grab squads: How US looting rings organize online as police are defunded
“It looked like chaos when groups of young people dashed from cars into the Louis Vuitton store in San Francisco’s Union Square and ran off with luxury purses, bags, and designer wear. “A few days later, about 80 people stormed through a Walnut Creek mall, stealing expensive items before fleeing. …
Read More »Looting in Kazakhstan amid protests over fuel prices (VIDEOS)
Shocking footage from ongoing protests across Kazakhstan suggests that riots that began over a spike in liquefied petroleum gas prices won’t end any time soon. The government has sought help from its neighbors as chaos reigns. Protests erupted in major cities across Kazakhstan after the price of Liquid Petroleum Gas …
Read More »Don’t use racist word ‘looting’, experts in US media warn
The lecture on linguistics came after the San Francisco Bay area police departments had described a series of brazen thefts at luxury retail outlets over the weekend as looting. Lorenzo Boyd, a professor of criminal justice and community policing at the University of New Haven, told ABC7 news channel on …
Read More »‘Changes’ for San Francisco after ‘horrible’ night of looting
Numerous stores, including Louis Vuitton and Bloomingdale’s, were hit on Friday night as part of a massive looting spree hitting businesses in the California city’s Union Square. In a Saturday press conference addressing the attack on businesses, Mayor London Breed promised “changes” to the area that will limit car access …
Read More »New York prosecutors dismissed ‘most’ looting & riot cases from George Floyd protests, police data shows
Citing police records, an investigation by a New York NBC affiliate found that a large percentage of charges filed during a wave of demonstrations last summer had since been dropped, many involving looting, vandalism and even rioting. Of 485 arrests made in Manhattan between May and June of last year, …
Read More »Wall Street capitalism is looting just like Minnesota rioters ‒ don’t let the disguise fool you
After another round of property destruction as Black Lives Matter protested over a police officer killing Daunte Wright ‒ and another round of trillion-dollar political giveaways by the Biden administration ‒ many are wondering aloud about the real looters in the US. Many privileged Americans believed they were undergoing a …
Read More »Looting & clashes after protests over police shooting of 20yo black man in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota turn violent (VIDEO)
Several hundred people flocked to the Brooklyn Center PD, protesting the death of Daunte Wright, 20, who was shot by police during what appeared to be a routine traffic stop on Sunday afternoon. Wright’s mother told the media at the scene that her son called her as he was being …
Read More »China demands end to violence and looting of its factories in Myanmar as 39 reported killed in anti-coup protest
The figures provided by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) would make it the bloodiest day of the protests, which have engulfed Myanmar since a military coup on February 1. Demonstrators armed with sticks and knives faced off with police in Hlaingthaya, the industrial area of Yangon. The officers …
Read More »Barricades in Madrid, clashes in Barcelona, looting in Logrono as anti-lockdown protests grip Spain (VIDEOS)
Protesters torched garbage containers and erected makeshift barricades on Gran Vía, and reportedly smashed several store fronts elsewhere in central Madrid on Saturday night. When police moved in to clear the unruly gathering, they were pelted with stones and flares, and reportedly fired blank bullets forcing the protesters to disperse …
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