TROUBLE hit Philadelphia hard on Tuesday night.
Many people broke into stores and stole things, and the police arrested 52 of them.
According to reports, some folks were angry because a judge let a police officer off the hook for shooting and killing a driver.
The angry protest turned into people breaking into stores and stealing.
Dayjia ‘Meatball’ Blackwell, a social media influencer livestreamed her own arrest after taking part in it.
Big stores like Foot Locker, Lululemon, and Apple were hit badly.
People with masks and hoodies stole various items, and the police caught some of them.
Other clips showed authorities arresting looters outside stores.
Liquor stores had problems too. The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board closed all 48 stores in Philadelphia and one nearby in Cheltenham.
This happened after 18 state-run liquor stores got broken into. Nobody who worked there got hurt, but the stores will stay closed until it’s safe to open them again.
And that’s not all—some cars got stolen in northeast Philadelphia. The police said seven cars went missing from a parking lot.
They found one of them on Wednesday.
A spokesperson for the Philadelphia district attorney’s office Jane Roh said 30 people got in trouble for breaking and stealing.
Interim Police Commissioner John Stanford, said these people had nothing to do with the protest.
He called them criminals taking advantage of the situation and they attempted to destroy the city.
“What we had tonight was a bunch of criminal opportunists taking advantage of a situation and making an attempt to destroy our city,” John Stanford, Interim Police Commissioner said.
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney thanked the police for their swift response and called the incident as a sickening display of opportunistic criminal activity.
