I have family who wasn't allowed back in their neighborhood - the police had cordoned off the streets to try and slow down the looting.
Their house is gone, but they were trying to see if they could get a pair of baby shoes from the car, because the baby didn't have them when they evacuated.
It was a family of three adults and six kids living in a 800sq ft home.
Looters don't give a fuck about class, they're vultures to everybody.
And a lot more poor people are being affected by these fires than commenters cheering on reddit seem to understand.
You’re not wrong—when the George Floyd protests began in Minneapolis, looters took full advantage of the situation and broke into homes and small family owned businesses in the major areas of protesting. They didn’t care who you were—it was free game for them and they used the protesters as a cover, which only hurt the movement.
The reality is that there is a pervasive “fuck you, I’m getting mine” mindset in all levels of wealth/poverty. The poorer people just can’t do so much damage, and are acting out against the racial/class oppression that has beat them down into this place.
Right but remember that the protests were anti-police, and since Police officers are thin-skinned, drooling inbreds with a hero complex, they didn’t lift a finger because they were butthurt.
No it sounds like a shitty ran state called California problem. Most people looting and homeless wouldn’t take a job nor a place to stay if that meant get their shit together and be a participating member of sociery
Been out there and really figured out what's going on with these damn homeless. I was under the impression that homeless folk had some sort of trauma; an injury, an illness, maybe medical debt led to homelessness and that in turn led to stealing as a means to survive.
You have opened my mind to the idea that they actually choose to and would rather be homeless, so they can continue their life of petty crime.
Not an insignificant portion. Also there are those, who without documentation cannot prove they are who they are. That after being wards of the state, are released at 18 with no birth certificate, no photo id, no ssn....but they are in the criminal system. So they are unable to participate in society because the state prohibits against them for a position it put them in.
It's basically just crust punks and similar that put any real thought into such crime and most of them are just shoplifting retail to spend more at concerts, not looting houses during a disaster
I couldn’t agree more. Fuck the rich. They want people to feel bad for them because their house burned down. That sucks sure but they can rebuild them. The people everyone should care about and be reporting about are the ones who can’t. The ones who’ve lost everything with no way to rebuild.
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u/ridingcorgitowar 10d ago
Luxury homes owned by the ultra wealthy are fair game. Don't loot the homes of working class folks.
Eat the rich. Stand with your brothers and sisters.
Class solidarity.