That'll happen when the cops have been ordered to stand down
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“That’s not looting, that’s reparations”
Philadelphia businesses put up signs begging for looters to leave them alone as thieves ran rampant for the third night amid unrest over the police shooting death of a 27-year-old black man.
“We work here and live here,” a large sign read on a boarded-up storefront in a devastated area of the City of Brotherly Love, photos show.
“It’s been looted already,” another store said on its boards, explaining that the Cambridge Beauty Supply store was family-run and had been in the area for 30 years.
It’s not entirely accurate to say that the police have been ordered to disperse, rather than arrest looters, though rank and file and police commanders say they have, but if the police chief claims there have been 91 arrests so far, out of thousands of rioting looters, that’s not much of a deterrence.
The tragic irony of this is that it’s local, black store owners who are being wiped out. Some black lives matter, but not all of them, apparently, and certainly not shopkeepers. “If you’re not rioting, you ain’t black”, to quote a famous politician.
