Looting South Street Seaport post Hurricane Sandy. Photograph by mikey_fresh1.
I live about 25 minutes from that location mentioned in the video by car. This explains all of the sirens, flashing lights, heavy law enforcement presence including the helicopters flying overhead during the blackout last night that lasted for several hours in our area.
Looting Flooded Street Coney Island Brooklyn, New York. Image courtesy of April O’Brien, Huffington Post.
As New York City spent a second night plunged in darkness shameless criminals got to work looting abandoned stores and homes across the metropolis.
At least 13 suspected thieves have been arrested since Hurricane Sandy struck the city around 6.30pm on Monday evening.
Thousands of police and National Guard troops are patrolling the city and keeping guard in the worst-hit areas in a bid to deter any opportunistic crooks.
As hundreds of thousands of the city’s residents were left without power, some wily criminals posed as Con Edison energy workers to dupe their victims, reported the New York Post….
…One cab driver described seeing the thieves in action when he returned to his home in Brooklyn’s Gerritsen Beach.
Eric Martine, 33, told the New York Post: ‘Guys were looting, pretending they were Con Ed and holding people up. It was sick.’
Police have allegedly warned locals that looters were disguising themselves as utility workers.
A police source told the Post that the ‘scumbags looting’ will not be tolerated and will be arrested ‘on sight’.
In the Rockaways, Queens, eight suspects were arrested: three at a petrol station, three at a Radio Shack electronics store and two at a clothing store….
Rockaways, Coney Island, South Street Seaport, Gerritsen Beach are just a few of the communities being looted but they all are in areas ordered evacuated by Michael Bloomberg.
Adding insult to injury, these thugs had the audacity to tweet their intentions.
Threats: The deluge of threatening tweets prompted the New York National Guard to deploy over 1,000 troops to maintain law and order. Image courtesy of DailyMail.co.uk.
These thugs are looting businesses, homes and robbing people in Zone A (mandatory evacuation areas).
Considering that looters and rioters are big about destroying their own communities, you can bet that most of the thugs reside in or very near the communities that they are looting. We now know why these despicable creatures refused to evacuate.
As for the rest of us, I can tell you that most people in surrounding communities struggling to get over Superstorm Sandy are unaware that such looting is going on or that their homes, businesses and/or person maybe at risk.
Sadly enough, the looting is not just in New York City. Rescuers after helping a man from a collapsed building in the north of Philadelphia, arrested him on suspicion of looting (see video below).
Oh yes, New Orleans and Mississippi as well.
Now if in the process of these animals looting, someone shot their arses, Sharpton and Jackson would be up in arms.
I don’t know but I would like to know. Is there a special law that differs from normal laws about theft…i.,e., looters?
There should be. This is devastating to people losing everything they have; and an insult to injury to have some low class, scum a__holes steal what is left.
While the riots are often cited as a major factor in the decline of Newark and its neighboring communities, longer-term racial, economic, and political forces contributed towards generating inner city poverty.
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You are definitely preaching to the wrong choir. I speak of that which I know. I was born into the environment of which you speak. In furtherance, I lived through the riots, racial tension and destruction of my community and the neighborhoods around me yet no one I know or anyone related to me rioted and ripped apart our own neighborhoods.
The blame game, “longer-term racial, economic, and political forces contributed towards generating inner city poverty” to which you refer are used as a cover for many of the thugs out to do wrong. Let us not enable them. It is about choices.
God bless you D, please keep safe!
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Patricia,
Thank you and God bless you and yours as well my friend. I’ve been following you on Facebook and you have some interesting finds there.
I do have a VERY ignorant question…but I do want the answer.
Never mind, the answer just popped in my own mind.
Obviously, those who loot, steal and cause even MORE chaos when everyone is already at their wit’s end has to be taught that at home in some way. They have to be raised to believe it is alright to do that to others.
It doesn’t matter if they are black or white; yellow, etc. Values, and a set of rules for morality IS TAUGHT AT HOME regardless of the color of skin. The LAWS should be even more severe during a time like this when someone is robbing from a neighbor who is already losing everything they value OR do not have the ability to protect themselves because I am sure the police department and fire department are already stretched thin triyng to stop the crime people commit deliberately during a chaotic time.