The Melrose residents say that although looters were of every race and ethnicity, their actions will only reinforce negative stereotypes, making it harder for black people like them.
“It’s going to be like the Watts riots,” one witness said. “I wasn’t really alive for it, but I was alive for this one. I’ll tell my kids and family members what happened.”
Entirely new people — young men and women — who he said were not at the demonstrations were spilling out of cars along Fairfax,A procession of cars, SUVs and pickups pulled up in front of the MelroseMac store at 6614 Melrose Ave. and disgorged drivers and passengers around midnight. With no police in sight, looters scrambled empty-handed into the store through shattered windows and emerged moments later with what appeared to be boxes of computers.“It was like a McDonald’s drive-through outside the Mac store, where cars were pulling up and others were throwing in looted goods and driving off,” Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Koretz told KTLA-TV Channel 5 Sunday morning.“They were in a line, one by one,” he said. “It was something the likes of which I’ve never seen anywhere.
Harrison said that the looters were of every race and ethnicity, but in the end, their actions were only going to reinforce negative stereotypes.
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