Saturday, September 15, 2018

NC: Looters raid Family Dollar, police pull back at management request

Via Rick Horner

 

While thousands of people struggle to overcome the damage left behind by Hurricane Florence, citizens in Wilmington broke into the closed Family Dollar Saturday on Greenfield Street to steal anything they could find.

WECT reporter Chelsea Donovan arrived Friday to find dozens of people carrying items back to the public housing community Houston Moore.

"When we came over the hill on Greenfield Street, you could just see people everywhere," Chelsea Donovan said.

Donovan and another WECT employee walked to the front entrance and back exit of the store at the intersection of Greenfield and South 13th Streets, witnessing people wearing masks and carrying out various items, including paper goods.

What Donovan didn't see was law enforcement and there's a reason.

More with video @ WECT

20 comments:

  1. I think I heard that the South Carolina Governor announce that looters would be shot on sight. --Ron W

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    1. :) We had "Trespassers Will Be Shot On Sight" posted on our farms when I grew up. Mostly as a warning to people from DC who came down during hunting season to shoot deer from their vehicles on the road.

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  2. I know it's a stretch, but if the police have a document that the "management" requested: no police intervention to stop a felony can that management be charged with "aiding and abetting"?

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    1. Crime...the new black entitlement.

      Y'all have a nice day.

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    2. If you would so kind as to spread this around I would be most appreciative.

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  3. I saw that and thought about a "Guess The Race" post.

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  4. Jeffery in Alabama's post above brought a chuckle out of me, I have been in several hurricanes and I never had the urge to go out and loot, I am sure you Brock have never looted and it goes for Jeffery. We are all white, I guess that is our "privilege." We hunkered down with enough beans, bullets, band-aides knowing we would be on our own and for me to run off FEMA and the damn Redcross if they showed up.

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    1. I don't understand such a mindset that would take advantage of my fellow man in a crisis such as this. A few years ago when the tornadoes decimated north Alabama, I did not hear of a single case of stealing in the rural areas. Instead there were neighbors watching over the dead and injured whose possession were scattered all over the countryside. A cousin who lived in Tuscaloosa, which was hit very hard in those storms, told me about taking shelter underneath a concrete stairwell inside the building where he worked. He said the sound was deafening and the air was filled with flying debris. Thirty seconds after the storm passed and the air began to clear, the first thing he saw was two black guys rummaging through what was left of a bank right across the street. He was slightly injured and in shock, but remembered thinking "where did they come from and how did they make it to the bank so quickly".

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    2. I'm not sure it is a generational thing Brock. LOL!

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  5. We hunkered down with enough beans, bullets, band-aides

    But that takes common sense........

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    1. Having bullets (and the guns to shoot'em) would now make you the bad guys, while the looters get a pass. --Ron W

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    2. Not if they can't find them... I had a ten acre pond behind my property with two good sized gators in them, that is where I used to dump my deer offal and hides after processing and the same with any goats I processed...

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    3. That would work! For some reason, reminds me of Fried Green Tomatoes.

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