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An estimated 450 Big Apple businesses were looted or damaged during recent protests over the police custody death of George Floyd, city officials estimate. Those merchants saw looting and other “storefront damage” from May 29 to June 9 as mostly peaceful but sometimes violent demonstrations swept the five boroughs, according to the Department of Small …
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It might be safer to rob a bank. Retailers across the country are boosting their defenses to protect against looting, including by hiring armed guards, planting scouts to keep watch out front and securing storefronts with barbed wire, The Post has learned. As The Post reported on June 2, iconic department store Saks Fifth Avenue …
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YouTube star Jake Paul has been charged for being part of a “riot” in which looters stormed an Arizona mall, cops announced Thursday. Paul, 23, had insisted he was only documenting the looting when he was caught on video at the Fashion Square Mall in Scottsdale on Saturday. But Scottsdale police said Thursday he was …
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Jake Paul welcomes any legal snafus coming his way. After Scottsdale police slapped the YouTube star, 23, with criminal trespass and unlawful assembly charges on Thursday, the prankster urged people to focus on the bigger issues at hand. “gimme my charges and let’s put the focus back on George Floyd and Black Lives Matter,” he …
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Liberals twice as likely as conservatives to say protests are justified. A majority of young, college-educated Americans justify the rioting and looting destroying major urban areas across the country, according to a new poll. Monmouth University researchers found that 62 percent of those aged 18 to 34 believe the actions of protesters were defensible, with …
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Looters smashed up and raided the Los Angeles Marc Jacobs store — but the designer seemed unfazed by the damage. Video posted to Twitter shows one glass door of the Melrose Place designer store completely smashed and another partly damaged, with the spray-painted message, “F–k capitalism.” The inside of the store appears near-empty. The large …
An estimated 450 Big Apple businesses were looted or damaged during recent protests over the police custody death of George Floyd, city officials estimate. Those merchants saw looting and other “storefront damage” from May 29 to June 9 as mostly peaceful but sometimes violent demonstrations swept the five boroughs, according to the Department of Small …
