{"id":204990,"date":"2020-04-03T07:48:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T07:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=204990"},"modified":"2020-04-06T07:42:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T07:42:31","slug":"big-city-stores-appear-to-be-preparing-for-mass-riots-by-boarding-up-their-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=204990","title":{"rendered":"Big city stores preparing for MASS RIOTS by boarding up their windows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Franz Walker — Natural News April 2, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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As cities all over\u00a0America\u00a0have placed\u00a0stay-at-home\u00a0orders in response to the coronavirus, high-end retailers are worrying\u00a0about\u00a0potential\u00a0civil unrest. Several shops, including those in\u00a0one\u00a0of Hollywood\u2019s\u00a0most\u00a0famous shopping districts, are taking measures to protect themselves against possible looters<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shops on or around Beverly Hills\u2019 Rodeo Drive seem to be preparing for the worse possible scenario during this current outbreak. Photographs have surfaced online of several of these stores having their doors and storefront windows boarded up with giant slabs of plywood. This is in addition to\u00a0said\u00a0stores\u00a0clearing out their shelves of expensive merchandise.<\/span><\/p>\n

When interviewed by TMZ<\/em>, construction workers\u00a0boarding up the Pottery Barn off Beverly Drive and Dayton Way, right near Rodeo, stated that what they were doing was only a temporary measure<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0to protect that specific\u00a0branch\u00a0from bad actors. However, other photographs have now come in showing other stores in other major cities also doing the same.<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0defensive measures by retailers\u00a0come after\u00a0police departments have been hit hard by the ongoing pandemic. In some cities, hundreds of police officers have tested positive for the disease, while thousands have called in sick or are in isolation.<\/span><\/p>\n

High-end stores anticipating looting and civic unrest all over<\/h2>\n

Rodeo Drive isn\u2019t the only high-end shopping district that\u2019s seeing it stores board up due to fears of possible looting and civil unrest. Numerous photographs have popped up over Twitter, showing shopping districts in cities around the country such as Chicago, San Francisco and\u00a0more boarding up their windows.<\/span><\/p>\n

Closures of high-end retailers such as Dolce & Gabbana and Hermes at Chicago\u2019s Magnificent Mile have prompted Luigi Zingales, professor of finance at the\u00a0University of Chicago\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0Booth School of Business<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>, to compare the situation to the 2019-20 Chilean protests\u00a0where rioters looted shops and even churches<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in the capital of Santiago and other cities<\/span><\/p>\n

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The \u201cMagnificent Mile\u201d in Chicago today. It looks like Chile in November. All fancy stores boarded up. Are they afraid of #Covid19<\/a> or of something else? @DMatamala<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/Ag2SU2iJ2a<\/a><\/p>\n

— Zingales (@zingales) March 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n