Social media ripped woke supposed criminal experts for saying that the public should not refer to the string of thefts across California as ‘looting.’
Those interviewed by a Bay Area news station, including a professor of criminal justice and ex-cop, think the steals should be referred to as ‘organized smash-and-grabs.’
The distinction originates from the California penal code, which defines looting as ‘theft or burglary… during a ‘state of emergency,’ ‘local emergency’ or ‘evacuation order resulting from an earthquake, fire, flood, riot or other natural or manmade disaster.’
