Scores of people robbed multiple stores last week, with many participants and observers posting videos of it online.
Seventy-two people have been charged nearly a week after mobs of people went on a looting spree across Philadelphia, the district attorney’s office announced Monday.
“We have been very actively pursuing contact with some of the affected businesses, their owners, and their employees,” District Attorney Larry Krasner said at the press conference. “We are very interested in bringing justice to people who view it as their task to encourage others to join them in breaking the law.”were robbed and closed in the area due to the looting. Many other stores were also targeted, including Foot Locker, Lululemon and Apple.
“The bad apples who decided to ‘so called’ protest with the act of looting were, in fact, stealing,” Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal said at the press conference. “Folk were stealing while peaceful protesters were walking with the families. The thieves weren’t walking with the family in support. Rather, they were too busy stealing.”
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