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Looting: How It Got to This, and What It Means

After weeks of violent persecution of African-Americans in the United States, the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till served as a catalyst for the civil rights movement to expose the inequalities of race within America. In a similar fashion, 65 years later in 2020, events involving the killing of Breonna Tyler, Ahmaud Arbery, and George Floyd, have propelled the fight against racism just as strongly. All these events, mixed with COVID-19 revealing how racial inequality impacts health and earning, sparked outrage, and led to riots breaking out across the United States. By the second day of the protests, May 27th, protestors looted a Target store in Floyd’s home city of Minneapolis. The video of the event went viral, and had mixed reactions: some applauded it as being a sign of anti-capitalist sentiment, while others said it was aimless, and only hurt the movement, and society. While many grieved the conditions of African-Americans, others grieved their favourite retailers, and shoppin