"There was an outbreak of rioting in Chicago on August 10th, 2020, when looters--some of whom had hired vans for the occasion--flooded to rich central districts and smashed into luxury-goods, electronics and other shops.
Attackers prised open cash dispensers, seized cash registers and hauled off carloads of fancy clothes, jewellery, televisions and alcohol, even as hundreds of police chased them and helicopters watched from above. Eager for notoriety, a few looters laden with armfuls of designer goods live-streamed themselves on social media. Some violence erupted; a security guard was shot. Police arrested over 100 people.
Some civil-rights activists fret that the latest events in Chicago will weaken national support for police reform that has grown in the months since Floyd was killed. The Rev Jesse Jackson called the events in Chicago "humiliating, embarrassing" and "morally wrong" on August 10th. Not everyone agreed. A few radical activists, including some associated with Black Lives Matter in Chicago, argued that looting can be legitimate. One woman, protesting at a police station that held arrested looters, called it a form of "reparations" for white oppression." [1]
1. "Smash and grab; Looting in Chicago." The Economist, 15 Aug. 2020, p. 24(US).
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