(many pictures in the link)
Shocking pictures have emerged of an armed vigilante attempting to stop a bank robbery in Santa Monica during widespread violence and chaos this weekend.
It came as protesters in California, New York and Washington DC have confronted and stopped looters from ransacking stores during protests demanding justice for the killing of black man George Floyd.
As protests emerge in hundreds of cities across the country, many have been marred with looting and violence. But on Sunday, some protesters confronted looters in a bid to stop the store raids and focus on police brutality instead.
Images show one man pulling a gun on another person in the middle of the street outside a bank in Santa Monica, as tension escalated.
On Sunday at noon several hundred people peacefully marched down Ocean Boulevard in Santa Monica but after a couple hours some people were seen looting the popular beachside shopping center.
Shocking video footage and photographs emerged of people leaving stores with their faces covered and arms filled with goods like shoes and clothes, and loading boxes into cars.
Yesterday as some people broke into stores including an REI shop on Third Street Promenade, two demonstrators intervened to stop them while holding signs saying end the violence and stop the looting.
A woman wearing a face mask and carrying a protest poster stepped in front of the glass entrance to the store as a man was smashing the glass with a hammer.
Even after he pushed her away she returned to stand her ground in front of the store. Her peer, a man in a purple sweater, then talked to the man trying to break into the store, and successfully convinced him to leave the shop alone.
'We're here for the protests but when we see people looting, it defeats the cause. So we decided we would come here and when we see anything happen – any violence or anything that shouldn't happen – we'll try our best to stop it. REI doesn't need to be broken into,' the female protester said according to Fox11.
The male protester said that one of the looters threatened to pull a gun on him. But the protester said he carried and pressed the looter to back off raiding the store. When he saw that the protester was filming their conversation, he left.
In Washington DC a rioter who was damaging a public sidewalk was stopped by protesters who carried him over to the hands of police.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.da...nte-tries-stop-bank-robbery-Santa-Monica.html
Shocking pictures have emerged of an armed vigilante attempting to stop a bank robbery in Santa Monica during widespread violence and chaos this weekend.
It came as protesters in California, New York and Washington DC have confronted and stopped looters from ransacking stores during protests demanding justice for the killing of black man George Floyd.
As protests emerge in hundreds of cities across the country, many have been marred with looting and violence. But on Sunday, some protesters confronted looters in a bid to stop the store raids and focus on police brutality instead.
Images show one man pulling a gun on another person in the middle of the street outside a bank in Santa Monica, as tension escalated.
On Sunday at noon several hundred people peacefully marched down Ocean Boulevard in Santa Monica but after a couple hours some people were seen looting the popular beachside shopping center.
Shocking video footage and photographs emerged of people leaving stores with their faces covered and arms filled with goods like shoes and clothes, and loading boxes into cars.
Yesterday as some people broke into stores including an REI shop on Third Street Promenade, two demonstrators intervened to stop them while holding signs saying end the violence and stop the looting.
A woman wearing a face mask and carrying a protest poster stepped in front of the glass entrance to the store as a man was smashing the glass with a hammer.
Even after he pushed her away she returned to stand her ground in front of the store. Her peer, a man in a purple sweater, then talked to the man trying to break into the store, and successfully convinced him to leave the shop alone.
'We're here for the protests but when we see people looting, it defeats the cause. So we decided we would come here and when we see anything happen – any violence or anything that shouldn't happen – we'll try our best to stop it. REI doesn't need to be broken into,' the female protester said according to Fox11.
The male protester said that one of the looters threatened to pull a gun on him. But the protester said he carried and pressed the looter to back off raiding the store. When he saw that the protester was filming their conversation, he left.
In Washington DC a rioter who was damaging a public sidewalk was stopped by protesters who carried him over to the hands of police.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.da...nte-tries-stop-bank-robbery-Santa-Monica.html
