At least 15 arrested in connection to Philadelphia looting and store break-ins
A crowd of young people is accused of breaking into Philadelphia stores and looting them. The police commissioner said around 100 people were in the crowd at one point.
Stores in Philadelphia’s Center City area and in other parts of the city were looted Tuesday after a crowd of young people broke into stores, police said.
At one point the crowd making its way through Center City was around 100 people, interim Police Commissioner John Stanford said.
The looting happened on a day of protests over a judge’s dismissal of charges against a police officer in the shooting death of Eddie Irizarry, but Stanford said that the thefts were not connected to the protest and that the looters were not protesters.
“What we had tonight was a bunch of criminal opportunists take advantage of a situation and make an attempt to destroy our city,” Stanford said at a news conference. "It's not going to be tolerated."
Shattered glass and merchandise on the floor at a Foot Locker Philadelphia that was looted Tuesday.NBC PhiladelphiaVideo recorded at the scene and shown by NBC Philadelphia showed people in hooded sweatshirts running in and out of an Apple store with what appeared to be merchandise. A nearby Foot Locker was also ransacked, the station reported.
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