Posted on 06/02/2020 1:14:51 PM PDT by karpov
The looters tore off the plywood that boarded up Macys flagship store in Herald Square, swarming by the dozens inside to steal whatever they could find before being chased down by the police. Others smashed the windows at a Nike store, grabbing shirts, jeans and zip-up jackets. They crashed into a Coach store,ransacked a Bergdorf Goodman branch and destroyed scores of smaller storefronts along the way.
The eruption of looting in the central business district of Manhattan long an emblem of the New Yorks stature and prowess struck yet another blow to a city reeling from the nations worst coronavirus outbreak.
The mayhem late on Monday night and into the early morning marred otherwise peaceful protests conducted by thousands of people across the city in the wake of the death of George Floyd, and it touched off a new crisis for Mayor Bill de Blasio. On Tuesday his fellow Democrat and frequent rival, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, criticized the citys response, saying, The NYPD and the mayor did not do their job last night.
Beginning Monday afternoon and growing wilder as night fell, small bands of young people dressed mostly in black pillaged chain stores, upscale boutiques and kitschy trinket stores in Midtown Manhattan, as the police at first struggled in vain to impose order.
Within hours, the normally vibrant center of wealth and upscale retail had descended into an almost clichéd vision of disorder: Streets were speckled with broken glass and trash can fires. Bands of looters pillaged stores without regard for nearby police officers. The screech of sirens echoed between skyscrapers.
By the early morning hours, a sense of lawlessness had set in.
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Accountable & responsibility is fully on the democratic governor & mayor.
Stopping a looter is racist.
Shooting a looter is genocide.
Call it the Carlos Slim Times. The richest man in the world (Carlos Slim), owner of the Times, could order the editorial tone of this rag to change today if he so desired. Some of the editors would quit, of course, but last I checked, there are plenty of unemployed journalism majors ready to be hired. Might have to conduct a few thousand interviews, though, to find anyone worthwhile from this year’s crop of Antifa graduates.
Did they hit Neiman Marcus? Or Sotheby’s?
The mayor and other city leaders, and even state leaders (Cuomo and AOC included), want the riots and looting to continue. They may give lip service to how dangerous the situation is, but, deep down they want the riots and looting, because, well... Trump can’t be allowed another term, and fixing the situation would allow Trump to concentrate on bringing back the economy and campaigning.
Plus, they won’t call in the National Guard, because, Trump might get credit for easing the situation, and that would not be good for democrats.
The country needs to realize that democrats are the party of riots and looting and that they support Anntifa and the looters and looters. Chaos and riots and looting, are the weapons that democrats will use in order to weaken Trump going into the election.
Do we need to get the word out that all New York Times employees have a lot of Ca$h in their desks...??
It's also just one train station from Times Square which is filled with all sorts of dreck and has even had shootings in broad daylight. Rare, yes, but they've had them.
“...The police need to do what it takes to restore order....”
Well, IF hey did that, they’d all be fired.
Really, the first order of business ought to be arresting that goof-ball of a mayor for mass murder, and then start doing what they’ve been trained for and do best.
Mayor Wilhelm aka DiBlasio will not defend his city because ideologically and emotionally and politically he is on the side of the insurrectionists. They are doing what the rich kids, like Wilhelm, feel they should be doing. New Yorkers will not defend their city because they have become, over the decades, rude sheep. Pretty much the same can be said for most of the other cities being burned down. If this is to be brought under control then the Federal government i.e. Donald Trump, will have to send in the army and soon. Otherwise little Lenins and Guevaras and Maos will gradually take control of the mobs and impose some discipline and the chaotic insurrection becomes a civil war.
At that instant they will attack Trump Towers with everything they've got. Minutes or hours later the announcement comes out that PDJT is deploying troops.
The MSM turns up their shriek-o-meter even louder (actually is that physically possible?), and screams about the "obvious" Cause ==> Effect for all the world to see: Trump refused to lift a finger until his personal possessions were threatened.
They'll be crowing this line all the way into November.
“Are there any patriots willing to take a stand and protect” [Trump Tower]
No.
This appeared in the NYT? Which has been relentlessly stoking the fires since forever?
The Naked Trump Cowboy is local, maybe he can take watch.
Not a joke.
There is no subway line close to NM in Manhattan to disappear into.
I don’t think this level of thieves have ever heard the word Sotheby’s.
wasn’t joking, I saw him on CNN Dancing behind the reporter and conversing nicely with the cops. Maybe check with some new yorkers in the area?
What? Do you mean to tell me they keep the subways running during smash-and-grab riots? How incompetent is that?
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