Can't stop because it's horrible and frightening not being covered enough; from first page of returns of a Google News search for "looting", ALLOVER THE COUNTRY

'They weren't protesters, protesters have a cause': Business owners attacked after storefront looted in South Loop

THEY CAME TO SUPPORT PROTEST AND CHECK BUSINESS LOOTED, ATTACKED, HUSBAND IN HOSPITAL

Bay Area cities order curfews amid fallout from looting and violence, prepare for more protests

Police Monday investigated several shootings and processed a number of suspects in a weekend of looting across the region, as they also prepared for more ...

The Mercury NewsYesterday

Roving Looters Leave San Leandro Walmart Ransacked And Smoldering

SAN LEANDRO (CBS SF) — Looters smashed their way into the San Leandro Walmart store late Sunday night, shattering windows, stripping shelves, toppling ...

CBS San FranciscoYesterday

Protests, looting continue in Southern California as new week begins

OC Register, 4 hrs. ago

Looting, vandalism break out in Chicago suburbs amid protests in wake of George Floyd's death

Gov. Pritzker deploys National Guard to Chicago suburbs as curfews issued

WLS TV, 5 hrs. ago

Atlantic City looting is latest blow to this casino town: How it unfolded, what set it of

June 1, 2020- 5:38 PM

Video captures looting of downtown Spokane’s Nike store

The Spokesman Review - yesterday

Boston Business Owners Are Picking Up the Pieces after Overnight Damage

Independent shop and restaurant owners say property destruction and theft are added hardships for them during the pandemic—and distractions from the protest centered on justice for George Floyd.

Boston Magazine - yesterday

Protesters worry that Tampa looting, police clashes will overshadow message

Police fired beanbags and tear gas. Stores were burned and looted. The explosive weekend left protesters with complicated feelings.

Tampa Bay Times - yesterday

It goes on and on, allover the country,this is not even the complete first page of links

• Looters, Unrest Hit Downtown Naperville
• Some family-owned Philly businesses survived the Center City looting by standing guard
• People grab rifles and board up to protect Kirkland businesses from looters (Washington state)
• Dozens of D.C. businesses damaged, looted following protests
• 'This is not Oakland': Looting suspects came from out of town, city officials say
• North Hills businesses clean up, some remain closed after weekend looting and vandalism (North Carolina)
• ‘This Is Unacceptable’: Daylight Reveals Damage From Looters On Newbury Street (Boston)

• Austin-Area Stores Looted As Protests Continue

• National Guard sent to Reno after looting, City Hall damaged

• Reports of looting at Tropicana & Koval, Las Vegas

• Protests, looting, vandalism at Iowa shopping malls
• BLACK COLUMBUS BUSINESS COMMUNITY DEALS WITH EFFECTS OF LOOTING (Ohio)
• Protests In Birmingham Result In Vandalism, Looting (Alabama)
• 60 businesses reporting damage in downtown following Saturday riots (Pittsburgh)

Cicero:  Looting Suspects Caught Hiding In Liquor Store; Earlier two bystanders shot and killed

NYC: 700 Arrested as ‘Packs’ of Looting Youth Defy Curfew; Curfew Extended through Sunday

Rampant looting was reported in Manhattan and the Bronx overnight. Mayor Bill de Blasio flat-out rejected calls for the National Guard Tuesday, saying "outside armed forces" would exacerbate the situation

By Kiki Intarasuwan, Jennifer Millman, Jonathan Dienst, Tom Winter, Brian Price and Myles Miller • 

WITH VIDEOS @ NBC News, Published June 2, 2020 • Updated 1 hour ago

Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday New York City's curfew will continue for the rest of the week, through Sunday, after police said "packs of youth" took to the streets overnight and violently looted stores across Manhattan and the Bronx, injuring officers in the process.

Shattered glass, mannequins and merchandise were left strewn across damaged store floors in midtown, while ashes and debris spilled from havoc-wrecked sidewalks into the streets along Grand Concourse as the sun rose following a fifth night of protests over the death of George Floyd.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo blasted the city's response as a "disgrace" and accused the mayor and the NYPD of failing to do their jobs Tuesday night.

"I believe the mayor underestimates the scope of the problem. I think he underestimates the duration of the problem," Cuomo said Tuesday, adding he thought more cops should've been deployed on top of the already doubled patrol.

De Blasio spoke ahead of Cuomo's briefing and didn't immediately respond to the governor's barb. The mayor focused on what the city would do going forward.

The initial curfew was imposed Monday to curb late-night violence amid the ongoing demonstrations. It was the first such measure since a white cop's shooting of a black soldier in Harlem prompted a citywide curfew in 1943. The extended curfew will be in effect daily from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. -- and end a day before a COVID-ravaged New York City reopens after its months-long shutdown.

Nearly 2,000 people have been arrested over five days of New York City protests so far. Police cuffed another 700 Monday night into Tuesday, by far the biggest number since the protests started and nearly doubling the total [....]

When the looting starts, the rooting stops

By Christine Marallen, Opinion contributor @ Cincinnati.com, Published 4:13 p.m. ET June 2, 2020

I heard from my sons within the same hour on Sunday.

My oldest, Tim, is 24 and a member of the Ohio National Guard. His unit had just been activated and he was on his way to Cleveland for riot control. Colin is 22 and is, among other things, a photographer who was headed downtown to document and participate in the protests.

They were both headed into areas where the tensions were inflamed and, therefore, unpredictable. Outside of being proud of them both for enlisting in the struggle, being the change they want to see in the world, I was agitated that my children were going to be in harm’s way because other people had created a situation full of muck and uncertainty.

“White allies to the front,” Colin was told at the protest. He and his young friends stood between the police and the people of color while they walked. A barrier both emblematic and real.

I’ve been in prisons since 2002, as a chaplain, as a college instructor and now as a reentry facilitator. I’ve put in the hours, unraveled under resourced lives; I’ve taught and been taught about the struggles and the view from the places and perspectives I can only hear about, not experience viscerally. I’ve asked the questions and examined the choices that emerge when people feel suffocated on one side of the spectrum, entitled on the other.

I don’t know what it’s like to feel a lifetime of cultural tinnitus; I have, however, done much time in the foxhole and that is what informs my conclusions in the war room. And my impatience with the "bums."

“They’re just bums,” Curtis Crump said to me. “Everyone knows violence begets violence and stealing is stealing. It’s ignorant.”

Curtis Crump is among my favorite people. When he brings his 6-foot-9, 300-pound self into the room, he brings a similarly sized vat of enthusiasm with him. He’s spent most of his 40 years in South Linden, an area of Columbus that parallels Over-the-Rhine in Cincinnati. The last four of those 40 he spent in prison where purpose, Damascus and God took root somewhere inside him. He recently joined Damascus, a reentry and staffing solution for individuals with felony records headquartered in Cincinnati, as an intern in the Columbus office. He, like me, has little patience for the people who chant for justice while paying the pain forward.

“Many people just want to be involved in the drama,” Curtis said. “There’s a lot of perping going on out there. ‘Look at me on social media.’ It’s opportunistic and it’s fake.”

Let’s review:

Police officer makes a ridiculous decision – likely not remotely close to his first of that kind – that leads to a black man’s death. It is tragic and unacceptable, we all agree. People gather and protest to mark their unwillingness to live silently in a society that would believe for one second that that a person’s skin color should determine their treatment and safety in the larger society. We all agree. People smash windows and set buildings on fire as an outlet for the anger and hopelessness they feel as the "other," the voiceless, and the oppressed. OK, I’m still with you a smidge because when you feel that those in authority are part of the problem, the "solutions" narrow. Living on the margins is taxing and tiresome and sometimes people reach a breaking point that not everyone understands. Some of us are still in agreement.

Break into a Target, fill a shopping cart with bed linens, electronics and Jordans for the little ones?

Nah, we’re done.

“It’s an excuse,” Curtis said. “Everybody is out there acting thirsty and it makes everyone trying to do something different look bad. And the worst part is everybody already knew they were going to do that.”

“That” is looting. Stealing. Tearing stuff up, setting things on fire, breaking into places, and taking what isn’t theirs to take. In the name of justice.

As a citizen, as a taxpayer, as a prison reentry facilitator, as a mother whose two sons are now responding to the situation that is lined with harrowing truth that something could go way wrong on a dime, I refuse to grind the narratives together as if George 

Floyd’s death is a Fastpass for entitlement and destruction.

Be angry. Demand justice. Exercise the right to protest. Vote people in or out. Create a coalition, committee, neighborhood circle or social media frenzy. Get up early, stay up late, make signs, educate the privileged. But tear up the neighborhood and bring a new 75-inch television home to the fam?

You’re part of the problem.

As the full-page photos and homemade videos expose the ignorance, our ability to convince employers and society to hire, trust and believe in marginalized populations grows harder than it already was. As my own children place and get placed inside the battleground where those who seek true justice are intertwined with those who use their peer’s death as an excuse to tear up and terrorize a community, my support for an important fight wavers. When the looting starts, the rooting stops.

I’ll see you in prison, friends. We can start the conversation there that someone should have had with you a long time ago.

Christine Marallen is the chief strategy officer and reentry facilitator for Damascus Reentry. She is a member of the Cincinnati Enquirer Editorial Board.

Retired police captain shot to death by looters at St. Louis pawn shop in slaying caught on Facebook Live

David Dorn, in a 2008 photo when Dorn became police chief of Moline Acres. Photo by Scott Bandle, Suburban Journals, via STLtoday.com. MORE PHOTOS @ link

By Kim Bell @ St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1 hr.ago

ST. LOUIS — A retired police captain was shot to death by looters at a St. Louis pawn shop early Tuesday and his killing apparently was broadcast on Facebook Live.

David Dorn, 77, was shot in the torso about 2:30 a.m. He died on the sidewalk in front of the shop, Lee's Pawn & Jewelry, at 4123 Martin Luther King Drive.

Police have made no arrests and said they have no suspects.

The Ethical Society of Police, which represents black officers in St. Louis, mourned Dorn as "the type of brother that would've given his life to save them if he had to."

Flowers and a teddy bear sat outside the shop next to a handwritten sign that read, "Y'all killed a black man because 'they' killed a black man??? Rest in peace."

Diane Davis knew Dorn and brought the flowers Tuesday. She said he was like a father to many.

"He was a kind man, he was a great man, he is a missed man," she said.

The killing happened on a night of violence and destruction in St. Louis.

Dorn's wife, Ann Marie Dorn, said her husband was a friend of the pawn shop's owner and worked for him. He would show up at the shop when burglar alarms sounded to check on the building, she said. She was too distraught to talk more about her husband [....]