Do you have a link to that?

philly has had periodic ATM thefts using explosives for years, but never many in a night like this

but you are right, it does have a bad tone to it, 'more serious thieves' is probably more accurate and doesn't have the same baggage. I'll change it

...'cause it really looks way more like that to me.

three guys thought looting a gunshop was a good idea. They were shot by the owner, who, not unsurprisingly, decided his store was a possible target of looters and decided to stay there overnight.

Words matter. We need to stop using the favorite go-to phrases that both doctrinaire racists and our lying corporate media uses. They should be properly described as "protestors" until we have all the facts regarding these individual incidents.

and you would prefer that they be described as "protestors"?

Why are they immediately being connected to the protests? Use of the word "looter" implies (at least as our media has been using that word) that they were part a demonstration and decided to commit an act of burglary. How do we know the crime wasn't premeditated? Who brings bolt cutters to a march?

Never trust our media. There's always more to these stories that they never deign to cover later on because they can't drum up fear and clicks with the truth.

Using explosives to destroy then rob an ATM is not a protest, it is theft and a violent crime.

an armed group breaking into a gun shop is not an act of protest either.

by attempting to get rioters and looters considered to be protestors, you are doing the right's work for them and undermining those peacefully protesting to try and bring about change.

loot
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verb
gerund or present participle: looting
steal goods from (a place), typically during a war or riot.
"police confronted the rioters who were looting shops"

See my post above. If they're burglars, call them that. The word looter is a loaded term being used by our scumbag media and the weak-minded to smear otherwise peaceful protests.

and I will restate that including these violent crimes as part of the overall protest is absolutely undermining the actual protests

Have fun.

because you are doing exactly what you accuse me of

dictionary.

I’m not even going to say I feel bad for them because I don’t.