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Looting in Philadelphia following the police shooting of a Black man armed with a knife continued throughout Monday night and into Tuesday morning. Video from a local ABC affiliate shows looters emptying a Foot Locker.

Rioters in Philadelphia sent 30 police officers to the hospital during the chaos that ensued following the officer-involved shooting of an armed Black man. One female police sergeant remains hospitalized with a broken leg sustained after being run down by a pickup truck.

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) issued a statement on Monday saying the violence that broke out in the city following the LA Lakers winning the NBA championship on Sunday resulted in 76 arrests.

The march from Milwaukee to Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, descended from peaceful protest to vandalism to looting on Wednesday night. Under the cover of darkness, dozens of protesters began smashing windows of homes and businesses and moved on to loot a convenience store.

Oregon homeowners have issued warnings for those who seek to loot and damage property amid wildfire evacuations, posting signs that state they will shoot and kill those who do so.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told Breitbart News exclusively on Thursday that the leftist mob that surrounded him on his way out of the White House after President Donald Trump’s Republican National Convention (RNC) speech last week, along with other leftist violence in Democrat-controlled cities, could be a game-changer in this election.

Never has the standard copyright text at the beginning of a book done as much work as in Vicki Osterweil’s In Defense of Looting.

A leftwing author defends looting to NPR as a means to provide rioters with “an imaginative sense of freedom and pleasure.”

President Donald Trump will travel to Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, according to the White House. The president plans to meet with law enforcement and survey damage from the recent riots after the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that Democrats “seem to be hesitant, in some ways…to condemn the looting.” Maher said President Donald Trump seems to be running for re-election as “the law and order candidate.

Dozens of downtown Minneapolis businesses have been looted and destroyed by several rioters after a rumor surfaced that the police killed a man on Nicollet Mall.

“[Protest] will ultimately burn itself out,” Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler told the local public radio station.

Looters took to the streets of Minneapolis late Wednesday following the suicide of a homicide suspect, looting several stores including Saks 5th Avenue and a liquor store, as several videos show.

Protests erupted in Madison, Wisconsin, for the third night Tuesday over the police-involved shooting of Jacob Blake, as protesters smashed buildings, set fires, and marched throughout the streets. It prompted one man who was standing in a smashed storefront to ask, “Are they trying to get Trump reelected?” 

Lightning strikes have sparked hundreds of wildfires in California, with more than 1M acres scorched and at least seven deaths reported.

Looters reportedly stole from a firefighter over the weekend in Santa Cruz, California, as he helped battle fires raging in the area.

An activist accused people upset over the recent looting in downtown Chicago of being upset about the wrong thing during a recent press conference and said they should, “Get over it!”

Five suspected looters were arrested Friday for targeting homes in Santa Cruz County, California, whose owners had evacuated due to the wildfires.

Two men were caught on camera allegedly yanking an ATM out of a New York City deli, a crime convenience store owners say is on the rise in the city.

A Chicago convenience store owner who has been looted twice since May plans to sue the city after the police failed to respond each time his store was destroyed.

Forty-two suspects were charged following the looting and unrest in Chicago on Sunday, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx announced Thursday.

Friday on MSNBC, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said while it was not a justification for the violence in her city, she believed the looters are exploiting the anger and frustration caused by President Donald Trump’s coronavirus response.

The Ronald McDonald House in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago was targeted by looters early Monday morning.

A Chicago alderman is calling Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot “unprepared” to handle the rioting and in the city and thinks federal intervention to quell the violence is necessary.

Black Lives Matter activists in Chicago held a rally Monday evening to stand in solidarity with the dozens of individuals who were arrested after a night of mass looting and criminal activity, with one organizer brazenly defending looting as a form of reparations.

The looting in Chicago’s shopping district on Sunday evening was sparked by false social media posts of a police-involved shooting.

Riots and looting broke out in Seattle on Sunday evening ahead of an expected city council vote to defund the police.

For those wondering what Chicago’s Democrat  Mayor Lori Lightfoot focused on over the weekend as these terrorists were organizing, she was shaming young people for going to the beach.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Detroit Police Chief James Craig discussed how his city kept the peace during recent protests and rioting across the country. Craig said that he made a tactical decision that

A near majority of voters believe that cities have been “too soft” in responding to “riots and looting” that occurred after ex-officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd, according to a Harvard-Harris poll released this week.

Between four and five hundred “youths” swarmed the streets of Stuttgart, Germany, attacking police officers and looting businesses in riots the AfD linked to Antifa and mass migration.

A 21-year-old man accused of looting a gas station and restaurant in San Bernardino, California, during the George Floyd protests this month — an incident which has been livestreamed on Facebook — has been arrested.

A recent report from Politico states that local law enforcement and federal agencies have begun using Facebook and other social media sites to track alleged looters and rioters.

Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) — who claimed “we are living in a police state” — berated Chicago police for “lounging” in his campaign office instead of stopping looters.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher expressed his frustration that Democrats won’t “rebel against the bullies who are on Twitter,” who “do not represent nearly the mainstream of the party.” He specifically cited the looting issue

Roughly 200 looters stole over $100,000 worth of products from a Tampa, Florida, Walmart on the evening of May 30, according to local law enforcement.