Looters, she joked, could help themselves to anything they wanted.
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His militia were widely feared as drunks, looters and murderers.
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The looters took food including pasta, rice and tomato sauce.
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Looters can hit a couple of tombs in a night.
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Eventually, a trickle of group members insisted looters be left alone.
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Regional governor Luis Acuña claimed the opposition party organized the looters.
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Victims of the disaster were quickly recast as looters, criminals, and
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Looters ransacked several foreign-owned shops in the city in August.
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"You had looters swimming back, breaking into these people's houses," she said.
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Houston suffered severe flooding; the mayor imposed a curfew to deter looters.
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Resources are the goal of looters, not assets like TVs or computers.
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Police were dealing with looters even before the storm touched down, though.
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Bogota Mayor Enrique Peñalosa blamed the necessity of the curfew on looters.
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I saw an innocent man being beaten, and children joining the looters.
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Banksy's "Looters" was restored by conservator and New Orleans local Elise Grenier.
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He said the state would show the "greatest firmness" towards vandals and looters.
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Looters also came to Lara, asking him to fix and restore stolen works.
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He said he had seen looters carrying off a refrigerator the night before.
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Days after the American invasion, looters had got in and raided the place.
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Looters are on the lookout for valuable metals, including steel, aluminum, and brass.
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"He noted looters would know not "to come to the AR-15 home.
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" He said looters would know not "to come to the AR-2013 home.
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Khattab was only in Saraqeb to protect his home from looters, he says.
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In those cases, looters are suspected of tearing the ships apart for scrap.
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Millare said she didn't evacuate because she feared looters would raid their home.
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In another case, an ABC reporter stirred controversy by alerting police to looters.
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A Mexico City police officer was killed as he tried to stop looters.
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Kessler's statement appeared more of a warning than an endorsement of violence against looters.
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Police have said only looters and thugs were killed or injured in the violence.
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He also said he wanted to protect the evacuated homes and businesses from looters.
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CNN witnessed military personnel chasing would-be looters out of an empty grocery store.
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The police moved in, and violence erupted, harming peaceful demonstrators and youthful looters alike.
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Looters tore off iron security gates by hand, or with chains attached to cars.
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Outside the room where Angela works, looters (possibly hired by her co-conspirators) rampage.
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"The site has been extremely well protected from diggers, artifact looters and Mother Nature herself."
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In Mexico State, which borders Mexico City, 529 people had been detained as suspected looters.
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In the post, Hart revealed that he was prepared to use force against any looters.
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As we reported, Carey put any potential looters on notice with a pretty menacing photo.
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The Keys remain under curfew, and there have been only a handful of looters arrested.
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AS THE police in Venezuela shoot hungry looters, the Organisation of American States (OAS) dithers.
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Security forces fired teargas in Venezuela's largest second city, Maracaibo, to stop looters, witnesses said.
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Cisco Adler is down with Carey Hart's warning to looters ... you steal, you get shot.
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Her father's store, with its Arrow shirts and Edison hats, had been emptied by looters.
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If he ran for it without locking up, his stock would be stolen by looters.
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But according to Édouard Planche of Unesco's secretariat, looters are simply playing a waiting game.
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Before fleeing, the guards at Mari reported that looters had come from Iraq, he said.
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The lamassus and friezes survived the looters because they were too heavy to haul away.
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The "middle-class moderate Lutheran" stratum are lay princes, lower nobility, and looters of Catholic churches.
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Moreover, some demonstrations get co-opted by opportunistic looters, while others are fuelled by factional politics.
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Not surprisingly, no opportunistic looters showed up and firefighters were dispatched to rescue the trapped drivers.
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Looters — young and old — leave a supermarket at Ogden Avenue and 166th Street in the Bronx.
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In 2016, two archaeological guards, Ashrawy and Mustafa Ali, were shot dead by looters in action.
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The would-be looters who murdered them are still at large, according to the Cairo Post.
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As it often happens during times of duress, many evacuated communities are being targeted by looters.
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Frantic rescue efforts were hampered by limited heavy equipment, and police were busy dealing with looters.
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As many as 21943,21979 convicts escaped from local jails, and violent confrontations with looters have occurred.
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Looters ransacked the stadium back in January, taking items like televisions, fire extinguishers and a statue.
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As we reported, L.A. County Sheriff's deputies are patrolling the area to protect it from looters.
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"We are not revealing the precise location of the ship to avoid looters," Mr. Decaluwé said.
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Buildings lay pancaked by airstrikes, and stripped of their marble cladding and copper wiring by looters.
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In some suburbs of the capital, residents said they had formed small self-defense groups against looters.
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At the entrance to his community, police stood guard, one carrying an assault rifle to discourage looters.
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The surveys found more than just ancient structures: they found evidence of pits from modern-day looters.
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Consider too the character Dismukes (John Boyega), a private security guard protecting a local store from looters.
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Some Looters have complained that their oven mitt failed to resist oven temperature items during normal use.
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The rioters were not black or white; they were arsonists and looters (who happened to be black).
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Despite mandatory evacuation orders, Castro stayed behind to protect his Lake Elsinore home from looters, he said.
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Police blamed the deaths on angry crowds catching looters, Odinga's alliance claimed civilians were shot by police.
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Many of these left Libyan state custody in 2011, as depots were raided by rebels and looters.
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Worrying about looters, he said he had stayed put after sending his family to stay with relatives.
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"Like looters during a blackout, they didn't cause the darkness but they exploited it," Mr. Cuomo said.
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Shareholders' lawyers, he said, are like cops patrolling the streets during a blackout to guard against looters.
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But while looters have been busy with their shovels, forgers have been active with chisels and kilns.
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Many archaeologists consider metal detectorists to be looters who shouldn't be allowed anywhere near their dig sites.
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Protesters took to the streets on Tuesday night, and looters raided shops for food and set fires.
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Since its closure in the '80s the building sat empty, eventually losing nearly everything to looters and nature.
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Carey Hart is prepared to use force against looters of the properties affected by the deadly California Wildfires.
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Over the centuries, the monks have managed to see off everyone from greedy looters to hostile religious zealots.
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"Looters" will return to public view once more on December 1, when Cummings unveils it at his hotel.
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She then entrusted it with one of her husband's former art students for safekeeping from looters in Switzerland.
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She says looters are searching for platinum, which was a discarded byproduct of gold panning at the time.
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Lady Gaga visits California fire victims "There have been sightings of looters breaking in to homes," Hart wrote.
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Children are recruited to be fighters, informants, looters, messengers, spies and as domestic and sexual slaves, it said.
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Police blamed the deaths on angry crowds catching looters, but Odinga's alliance claimed civilians were shot by police.
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The looters had stolen most of the jewelry and precious metals, dislodging the couple's corpses in the process.
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" And it even proposed "public executions of looters and other spectacular events to distract the protest-minded audience.
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Golden said the site had been raided by looters in 1960s and many of its monuments were stolen.
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Golden said the looters used saws and other heavy equipment to cut the off faces of the monuments.
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Along the way, smoke hovered over the road as business owners burned the trash left behind by looters.
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By the next day, the family became worried because people they considered looters had arrived at the hotel.
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The store was drowned, sewage forced out of pipes, inventory ruined and looters came and trashed the store.
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Bewildering to some observers was how Mexican-American neighborhoods in Los Angeles often escaped the wrath of looters.
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So, therefore, if you don't have a foundation of what caused that event, you see these as looters.
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With ISIS gone, looters have now descended on the broken remains, gleaning the scorched earth for valuable fragments.
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They were told to evacuate but stayed because they were afraid of looters taking the little they have.
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Walter Washington ordered that looters not be shot, and has been credited for his handling of that crisis.
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The team thinks looters ransacked the cave around the 1950s, pointing to pickaxes left in the tunnel as evidence.
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One tweet, for example, took an image of boxer Floyd Mayweather and framed him as one of the looters.
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Looters carry items stolen from Ace Hardware trailers parked in the campground area in the early morning, July 26.
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And the fact that looters, not archeologists, found the manuscript made many scientists even more skeptical about its origins.
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It's unclear if the looters manages to get anything in the robbery, but the glass definitely diminished their takings.
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Local cops use their fading power to abuse Sheffield's residents, executing looters and rounding up the sick and infirm.
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Marauding gangs, ranging from looters and escaped convicts to genocidal, flamethrower-wielding sanitation workers, now largely rule the city.
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Over the centuries since, the sarcophagus would have survived looters, plowing and a machinery of a nearby coal mine.
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The National Museum was hit by rocket fire, reducing many artefacts to dust and opening the rest to looters.
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Still, their access to the artifacts and maps has some worried that looters could take advantage of the situation.
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They were chasing looters who were hiding among the graves after a mob of 235 ransacked two nearby supermarkets.
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Verdict: On top of their official sentence, ransacking 21 temples entitles these looters to several lifetimes of bad karma.
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"My family left for Sanaa yesterday but I stayed behind alone to protect our home from looters," he said.
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Would rioters tear up roads and looters target businesses, as some did on the fringes of the 2011 protests?
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"We need to know what places need to be stabilized and how looters have altered the sites," he said.
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Scanning the scattered debris — yellowing newspapers, cigarette butts — he concluded that the chamber had been thoroughly ransacked by looters.
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Finds Gone Astray features 250,73 artifacts confiscated from looters and unauthorized dealers in antiquities over the past 27 years.
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But one ABC News reporter took it upon himself to tell police about "looters" yesterday who were entering a supermarket.
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The local government instituted a curfew and has urged residents to stay at home after reports of looters and violence.
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La Jordana claims that opportunistic looters are even pillaging the stranded wildlife, and that a local militia now stands guard.
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With the lights still out and the looters unchecked, many people felt that Maduro had lost the ability to govern.
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"My husband stayed home because he always wants to protect the house, I guess from looters and stuff," she said.
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The group allowed residents and other looters to take from heritage sites, imposing a 20 percent tax on their earnings.
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Satellite images show invaluable sites, such as Mari and Dura-Europos in eastern Syria, pockmarked with excavation holes from looters.
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It's a hot mess, populated by looters and the usual moochers, but its un-incredibles also give the Incredibles purpose.
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In videos posted on social media, people screamed as gunshots were fired into dark streets and looters broke store windows.
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While jihadists were more motivated to destroy the artifacts, they had also allowed looters to operate in exchange for money.
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Stepp testified that the sergeant told him he simply waited and ripped off looters leaving shuttered pharmacies with stolen drugs.
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Image: Lassithi Ephorate of AntiquitiesImportantly, the tomb, at a depth of eight feet (2.5 meters), has never been disturbed by looters.
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But they're often limited by funding and other challenges that take time to overcome, allowing looters to reach the wreck first.
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According to Europol, the group executed all phases of trafficking by deploying looters, fences, intermediaries, and mules in different Italian regions.
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The looters were determined and, in some cases, armed; the police did not intervene, apparently out of fear for their lives.
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Looters appeared to have stolen beer from a grocery store on Avenue Hoche, leaving the bottles and boxes on the street.
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On Saturday, the day of Mr. Brooks's funeral, neighborhoods in Panama City still posted spray-painted signs threatening to shoot looters.
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In the week after the storm, he, too, was rushing home before sundown in case he had to fend off looters.
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Hundreds of fires burned throughout the city; firefighters racing to extinguish them were shot at; and looters snatched merchandise from stores.
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Police at some point Friday cut off access to the damaged Westbranch and Carverdale neighborhoods, hoping to ward off potential looters.
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A decidedly low-tech exhibition features black-and-white photo reproductions of a war zone, charred bodies and menacing white looters.
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Italy has a police unit dedicated to tackling art looters which led the operation in the southern tip of the country.
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In the 6783s there were seven full-time B.L.M. rangers trying to protect this area from looters, vandals and affectionate carelessness.
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Most homeowners haven't returned to their houses, and security systems are down because of power outages, so looters are taking advantage.
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Before the gators show up in force, a swamp boat full of adolescent looters prowls the flooded suburb (we see them dragging an ATM out of an abandoned gas station), bringing to mind the time Chris Kyle, of American Sniper fame, told a since-disputed story about shooting looters from the top of the New Orleans superdome.
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Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo told ABC News officers have arrested 14 looters so far, adding that thieves will face stiff penalties.
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But even then — and I'm not trying to be an apologist for the looters — it didn't seem like a crazy, hectic environment.
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More than 1,000 people were killed in Jakarta alone, many of them were looters who died in a series of large fires.
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The threat graph is bottomed-out today; the Finns have tightened up border security following several incursions by FSB and Spetssvyaz looters.
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At least one police officer, witnesses said, was burned alive, and the authorities blamed opportunistic looters who ransacked shops, offices and banks.
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Due to its remoteness and past targeting by looters, the Dayr al-Barsha site has been closed to the public for years.
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Nothing can be taken from the radioactive areas (although that hasn't deterred looters from raiding money, furniture and other resources to sell).
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The researchers wanted to determine if the donkeys truly belonged in the grave, or if they had been deposited there by looters.
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Recent satellite images have revealed that Dura-Europos, left unguarded during the current Syrian civil war, is being picked clean by looters.
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Vice President Ricardo Alvarez acknowledged that many of the looters were people "taking advantage of the situation," not supporters of the opposition.
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"In the middle of this blackout there was no authority," said Miguel Sierra, who was selling laundry detergent when the looters arrived.
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There was the July 43-14 power blackout, with hundreds of fires and looters, thousands arrested and millions of dollars in damage.
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It's kinda eerie and pretty clear -- it's being done to protect the store from would-be looters crazy enough to break in.
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They were trained on "Looters," an image painted by the notorious street artist Banksy on a 1,200-pound, squarish chunk of masonry.
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Now, the left uses white supremacy to describe college admissions processes, enforcing immigration laws, and defending property from looters during a hurricane.
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Sources tell TMZ ... the mansion owners are using several armed security guards who are working around the clock to ward off looters.
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Just a few days earlier, Aguilar said he sat terrified when hundreds of looters swarmed a stationary convoy, overwhelming drivers by sheer numbers.
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The looters—even if sanctioned by the university—had no legal business dismantling the ships and extracting the metal without authorization from Tokyo.
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But above the looters and gangs, "I blame politicians for what happened, and what's going to happen, and what's been happening," she said.
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It is already in the process of being covered up to protect it from regular flooding along the river and also from looters.
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Edwin Montoya, 76, had planned to stay to care for animals and keep looters away from his family's property in neighboring Leilani Estates.
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Instead, they were instructed to arrest looters and confiscate materials recovered from synagogues and Jewish community centers, according to the US Holocaust Museum.
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He said he lost his job at a hotel when looters ransacked it in March, ripping out even window frames and cable wiring.
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Opposition supporters charged that the violent protesters and looters were infiltrators, deployed to give the government an excuse to use the security forces.
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For days and nights, unruly crowds sacked 523 stores in Maracaibo as residents stood on their porches wielding weapons to guard against looters.
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Verdict: Like the moon landing video, the supposed "security footage" was obviously staged — this saucer heist was clearly the work of Martian looters.
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Church groups provided food, clothing, diapers, portable air-conditioners and spiritual comfort to those who desperately needed the healing power of fellowship. Looters?
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The looters tossed a headless, limbless mummified torso into a corner before attempting to set the room on fire to cover their tracks.
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After the American military's invasion, saboteurs toppled power lines to harass the government and looters stole copper wire and sold it for scrap.
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He has not yet decided where it may permanently reside, but "Looters" will undoubtedly hang in a protected setting to prevent any additional defacement.
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While police in Broward and Pembroke Pines have issued threats to looters, Orlando police urged the public to not spread false reports of burglaries.
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"For the looters, vandals and arsonists, it was Christmas in July, a fiesta, a carnival, a holiday," Milton Lewis with CNN affiliate KABC said.
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If he can reshape the ANC as a party that fixes schools and purges looters, he can perhaps restore its fortunes, and South Africa's.
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Although its aim was to punish looters of the Russian state, Putin saw it as a hostile act, seemingly acknowledging complicity in the crime.
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" Another Instagram feed with the handle @prayformalibu posted a photo of a similar sign: "Welcome 2 Point Dume Looters get bullets Fireman get hugs.
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In Santa Rosa, the seat of Sonoma County, the authorities imposed a curfew starting at sunset and said they were watching for looters. Gov.
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Violence engulfed the Caribbean city on Tuesday as looters swarmed over 60 shops after a rally of protesters demanding food got out of control.
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Many archaeologists consider metal detectorists looters who shouldn't be allowed anywhere near their labs or dig sites, but Dr. McBride has a different view.
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Carey Hart, the former pro motorcycle racer, issued the ominous warning Tuesday on IG, cautioning looters to think twice if they're coming into Malibu.
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Protesters, under the banner of the activist organization Foil Vedanta, demonstrated at the shareholder meeting, chanting "shame, shame" and "looters, polluters" as executives walked in.
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But yesterday, he sent out a tweet which claimed that he had seen "looters" in the area, and that he had reported it to police.
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Reporter Rafael Romo said the store owner told him looters did not appear to be looking for food, but instead grabbed alcohol, cigarettes, and computers.
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In Zello's North Houston Rescue channel, for instance, the discussion Wednesday turned to looters after one member of the group suggested shooting them on sight.
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When the looters came across the codex in the '60s, they apparently found it with six other objects, including a child's sandal and wooden boxes.
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It does just that by shipping boxes filled with surprise assortments of merch and gear to the doorsteps of its subscribers, or "Looters," every month.
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Since Irma began bearing down on the state late last week, authorities have been warning any would-be looters against taking advantage of the situation.
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Mohamed Camara, 29, said he bore little resentment toward the looters who cleaned out his roadside shop because "this is the fault of the state".
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Amid the carnage, many Syrians have continued working, often in vain, to protect the country's historical sites from heavy weapons and other threats, including looters.
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The publicity for the new project, like the first Operation Scroll, insists that this is an urgent matter, a race against looters for new scrolls.
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Other residents have stayed behind because they are worried about looters, concerned that they would return to find "their back doors kicked in," he said.
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You can also see the debris field ... which L.A. County Sheriff's deputies are now patrolling, on horseback and ATVs, to protect the area from looters.
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Five people were reported to have died on Sunday, after looters set a factory ablaze in a northern suburb of Santiago, the country's capital city.
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On Tuesday, violence engulfed the eastern Caribbean coastal town of Cumana as looters swarmed through dozens of shops and security forces struggled to maintain control.
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Traveling to famous archaeological sites and unexplored yet now-desecrated necropolises, the team met with archaeologists and looters to unravel the market behind this trend.
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Looters had their way with the mall during the 1992 Rodney King riots, and the place never bounced back, finally shuttering its doors in 1995.
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But this is an oddly distorted libertarianism, in which Rand's villains masquerade as her heroes: those who talk most of liberty are the looters and moochers.
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Several videos have been shared on Twitter, showing looters banging against the store's fractured glass panes and running in to quickly nab laptops, iPads, and more.
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And fear-mongering about looters can trigger an overly militaristic response in disaster areas, funneling resources toward maintaining "law and order" instead of actually helping survivors.
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The artifacts on display in Finds Gone Astray are somewhat different: they were not obtained by excavation or survey work but confiscated from looters and smugglers.
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"My family left for Sanaa yesterday but I stayed behind alone to protect our home from looters," said Mohammed Abdullah, an employee of the Houthi administration.
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President Sebastian Pinera on Thursday promised that police and soldiers found guilty of rights violations would be prosecuted with the same force as rioters and looters.
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"This is a supply and demand issue," Dr. Al-Azm said, repeating that any demand gives incentives to looters, possibly financing terrorist groups in the process.
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Mary Carmen Laguna Andrade, 23, who lives in El Valle, said she had watched as looters prowled the streets into the early hours of the morning.
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Looters have ransacked trucks, supermarkets and liquor stores across the nation of 30 million people, which ranks as one of the most violent in the world.
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Perhaps something similar is happening here, though it's not clear what value this monitoring station, equipped with an assortment of scientific instruments, might have for looters.
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Amid rumors of bands of looters and toxic spills, I joined a caravan of fellow Brooklyn surfers and drove out to volunteer in the cleanup effort.
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On Sunday, two people were killed, and 16 others were arrested in fresh riots that erupted as looters targeted shops in a business district in Johannesburg.
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Looters took bundles of prescription drugs like Percocet, an addictive painkiller known as "perks" on the street, and flooded the drug market with a large new supply.
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Hughes says he and about five of his neighbors chose to protect their homes against fire and looters, despite an evacuation text alert they got Sunday evening.
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Even as looters pillaged a burning CVS drugstore across the street from a Pratt branch, Hayden kept the library open, under the protection of National Guard troops.
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It survived the war, but following Oskar's death in 1947, Greta Moll left it with one of his former art students for safekeeping from looters in Switzerland.
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Verizon said the unnamed company, which has been attacked by armed seafaring pirates several times, contacted its cyber specialists after noticing the looters had changed their tactics.
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Looters have broken into museums and left thousands of empty pits, all to feed the demand for antiquities around the world—especially demand from the United States.
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Wary of looters, Dr. Macleay and others at the resort decided to stay up through the night on patrol with a machete on hand, just in case.
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When archaeologists excavated Cui Shi's brick tomb, they found the items looters left behind: a stone epitaph bearing her name, a lead stirrup and scattered donkey bones.
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Iranians without tents or any other form of shelter accused low-level officials and looters of hoarding tents with plans to sell them later for a profit.
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"If this [NATO] alliance is to persist, you will ignore words of looters, and accredit the words of Turkey, a trustworthy friend," he said at the weekend.
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Posts on social media and callers into radio stations said that people were organizing to protect homes from looters, while officials urged the public to remain calm.
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An effort by the United States to seize assets from officials who stole their countries' wealth is now focused on returning the loot without enriching the looters.
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Do you think metal detectorists are "looters" as described in the article, or skilled and knowledgeable specialists who can work as important members of scientific research teams?
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One person was shot and killed — a 21-year-old suspect has been arrested and charged — several officers were injured, and looters ransacked stores and vandalized property.
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In the days after the hurricane struck, a narrative based on rumors emerged, in many cases blaming poor black residents and looters for the chaos and violence.
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The looters use tree trunks and rocks to stop vehicles, and are particularly fond of "miguelitos" - pieces of metal with long spikes - to burst tires and halt vehicles.
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Gutierrez said that so far looters have skipped over her son&aposs headstone, located for nearly a decade in a highly visible corner of Cemetery of the East.
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" Hart's comments came alongside a black and white photo of a group of 12 white men holding guns with a sign warning, "Looters will be shot on site.
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" Hart's comments came alongside a black and white photo of a group of 12 white men holding guns with a sign warning, "Looters will be shot on site.
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Already, Howard said, looters had taken one of his boats which they tried to drag into the nearby woods, only to give up and leave the boat stranded.
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Power and communications were down in parts of northern Luzon, where some residents in high-risk areas chose to ride out the storm to protect homes from looters.
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Some 28 people died as police backed by soldiers struggled to control arsonists and looters, as well as more peaceable protesters, who blocked roads and railways into Delhi.
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Los Angeles (CNN)Chang Lee gripped his fingers tighter around the gun and screamed at potential looters from the rooftop of the small strip mall where he stood.
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While the Lighthouse of Alexandria collapsed after an earthquake in the Middle Ages, a few parts of it were preserved from looters by tumbling into the surrounding sea.
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The couple say their experience flies in the face of government statements that only looters or thugs were killed or injured in violence following last week's disputed election.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - Miami area police arrested more than 50 suspected looters during Hurricane Irma, including 26 people who were accused of breaking into a single Wal-Mart (WMT.
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They'd heard reports that looters had gone through the place and taken some wine, but they had yet to track down everything and determine if they'd lost inventory.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Two guards at the Dayr al-Barsha archaeological site in Middle Egypt were killed by looters during a foiled robbery this weekend.
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It doesn't try to excuse the looters and the violence, and it soundly condemns the powerful who apply a different set of standards to themselves than to others.
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With Parcak's novel approach, we can all partake in the mission to ensure that experts reach these first, before looters strike, cause irreparable damage, and feed the blackmarket.
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Americans fear there's about to be a violent side effect of the pandemic -- looters -- so they're preparing their homes for the you-know-what to hit the fan.
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In the second century B.C., tomb robbing was so widespread that the Lüshi Chunqiu, a classic Chinese text compiled around 239 B.C., advocated frugal burials to deter looters.
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No one is protecting the ancient grounds, despite a warning from United Nations inspectors that looters are further obliterating one of the most important archaeological sites of Mesopotamia.
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Some people broke a display window at a department store near City Hall, and looters broke into a convenience store, grabbing merchandise and screaming, "Everything is free," Philly.
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That's right—we are inviting all PKs, ninja-looters, and scammers to compete against each other to decide, once and for all, who is the World's Greatest Griefer.
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Looters had ripped out the majority of the Houston's portholes, removed rivets holding the ship's hull together, and had been in the process of gathering unexploded shells and ordnance.
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Archaeologists and looters have been sifting through the dirt of Cambodia's Angkor Archaeological Park for years, and these days very little is unearthed other than the odd pottery shard.
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Sonoma County Sheriff Robert Giordano said officials are maintaining a strong police force in the areas that are still off limits for residents, and cracking down on possible looters.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In the 1960s, looters searching a cave in Chiapas, Mexico, came across a rare, ancient codex rich with illustrations of weapon-wielding deities.
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Sure, there were villains -- looters and scurrilous business owners gouging victims for drinking water -- but the dominant storyline became the heroes near and far who answered calls to help.
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Once booming from oil with a growing middle class, the country is in crisis: food is so scarce that mobs riot outside supermarkets and looters raid delivery trucks daily.
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In a matter of hours, looters wielding power saws, electric generators, and ladders managed to steal a handful of petroglyphs that had survived thousands of years of natural erosion.
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"I definitely would try and loot a gun store and get some supplies from nearby stores before any other looters could get to it," he added of his strategy.
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Once vast, it was reduced in size centuries ago by the Crusaders, then again during the Mamluk and Ottoman Turkish eras to prevent looters driving carts into the church.
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I was imagining myself spending hours and hours in bumper-to-bumper traffic, ducking the bullets from police as they tried to defend a depleted gas station from looters.
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Instead of looters, the artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov's large-scale boat installation (with the word "IMAGINE" nearby) will bring a new emphasis on public art to the area.
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Early on in Ferguson, Missouri, after looters burned down a QuikTrip convenience store, racial justice activists — and the Black Lives Matter movement in general — got a reputation for violence.
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Grave robbers had already swept through the tomb, but a batch of pottery jars (many broken), including one containing the cheese and a canvas cloth, were ignored by the looters.
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"Looters," which depicts two National Guardsmen carrying electronics out of a residence, is one of 14 pieces of street art Banksy left behind after a 2008 visit to New Orleans.
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Erika Garcia tearfully recounted how looters ransacked her food shop and home just 10 minutes after National Guard soldiers who had been patrolling the area withdrew late on Monday night.
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Did the looters trash crumbly tablets that weren't pretty enough for the market but, in the hands of archaeologists and epigraphers, could have told us marvellous and ground-breaking things?
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In 4013, during the invasion of Iraq, looters set fire to the library of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Baghdad.
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Pacheco lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in medicine and equipment to the water that seeped through his roof, but stayed in his business to prevent losing more to looters.
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Soon, they pulled up at a tidy home, having navigated a fallen tree and passed a warning sign, posted at another house, that said looters and vandals would be shot.
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Some thought they should remain, because in other rebel areas retaken by the government, homes had been stripped bare by looters and some dwellings had been taken by government supporters.
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The nearly 63,000 army troops deployed overnight in Santiago, Valparaíso and Concepción did not deter vandals and looters who ransacked and set fire to supermarkets, gas stations and car dealerships.
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Earlier in the day, the district attorney for Harris County, which includes Houston, announced that looters would face harsher punishments under a Texas law governing crimes committed in disaster zones.
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The Antiquities Act — a century-old piece of legislation originally intended to help the government protect archeological sites from looters — gives the president the sole authority to create these monuments.
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Looters pick among what remains along a 900-acre swath of devastation — fragments of ancient reliefs, chunks of cuneiform texts and pieces of statues, according to an Associated Press report.
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United States-led forces had invaded Iraq that March in a futile search for weapons of mass destruction, and for days looters ransacked the Iraq Museum in the capital city.
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LUCAPA, Angola (Reuters) - Residents of Kapende, a Congolese neighborhood in the Angolan town of Lucapa, scrawled messages on their homes to keep the looters away, but it did not work.
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Kabila's chief diplomatic adviser Barnabe Kikaya Bin Karubi conceded errors by Democratic Republic of Congo's police and armed forces but said that both were confronted by "looters and stealers and rapists".
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Here's What Protects Shipwrecks From Looters and HacksIllustration: Elena Scotti (Gizmodo), Photo: Getty, AP, ShutterstockOn May 25, 673, the HMS DeBraak was entering Delaware Bay when a squall struck without warning.
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Some inscriptions have been removed, but no replacements have appeared, leaving relatives clueless about whether the grave markers of loved ones have been put in safekeeping or taken away by looters.
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The artifacts include both those illegally excavated by looters in the West Bank as well as those confiscated at the border as people tried to smuggle them into the West Bank.
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And when his brother Ra-Ra admits that it was party-crashers, and not looters during a city-wide blackout, who trashed their parents' salon, he was spared for his honesty.
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The mound on which the ruins are situated has a fresh crown of razor wire to keep looters out, and until recently, corpses floated down the river Tigris from battlefields upstream.
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Kathy Tiddark, a Frederiksted resident who owns Caribbean Breeze Apartments and Vacation Homes with her husband, said she was worried about security after watching a nearby business get destroyed by looters.
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It was among the artworks the family deposited in a safe shared with Pierre-Auguste Renoir's family at the Banque de l'Union Parisienne in 1940 to protect them from Nazi looters.
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In the initial hours of the riot, the Los Angeles police stood by; looters walked right by police carrying as much loot as they could unbothered by the men in blue.
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" — Tom Griffin, 65 Hell's Kitchen "As the evening became darker, we started to hear the distant smashing of glass as opportunistic looters broke the plate-glass windows of Times Square shops.
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Two suspected looters were shot dead on Tuesday night after an ANC member was shot dead on Sunday as party factions met to decide on a candidate for mayor of Tshwane.
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The country's top food company, Empresas Polar, said four facilities in Maracaibo, Venezuela's biggest city after Caracas, had been sacked this week, with looters making off with water, soft drinks and pasta.
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Residents of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, use plywood with the words 'Looters will be shot' to cover the windows of a bar ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Florence on Sept. 213.
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"It is a common practice for looters to remove just the head of a sculpture in situ because it is easier to smuggle and sell on the black market," the statement said.
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For example, during the Baltimore riots this year, looters reportedly stole prescription drug stocks from more than 30 pharmacies and clinics, and law enforcement officials said these drugs then flooded the streets.
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During the colonial era, bands of looters — missionaries, scholars, security forces and fortune hunters — fanned out across the continent and, by force or guile, carted away vast quantities of Africa's artistic heritage.
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Ubisoft's The Division, an infamous example, features smartly decked out fascist paramilitary soldiers, sent to murder looters and escaped prisoners in a lawless New York, making it the ultimate far-right fantasy.
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Looters smashed shop windows and made off with merchandise in more than 300 businesses across the state along the border with Colombia, the Zulia chapter of business organization Fedecamaras said in a statement.
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It was found in a cave in Chiapas, Mexico, in the 1906s by looters and sold to a wealthy Mexican collector -- before it turned up in an exhibition in New York in 1971.
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There's nothing to suggest that fun-loving looters are running amok, and then posting about it online, and using the hashtag "#harveylootcrew"—probably not at all, and definitely not in any significant volume.
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The Paris demonstrations were joined by opportunistic radicals of other tendencies, left and right, and by looters "from the projects" (des cités)—such descriptions being a common French bureaucratic code for ethnic minorities.
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On Saturday, looters smashed the front of Fouquet's, a restaurant that came to epitomize economic privilege after Nicolas Sarkozy hosted a party there on the night of his presidential election victory in 2007.
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With the actor Hill Harper, his "Looters" co-owner and a frequent business partner, Mr. Cummings commissioned a conservation, treating it like a fresco by Piero della Francesca instead of high-end graffiti.
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Then the looters and arsonists moved north to Koreatown full of electronics stores and businesses and towards Wilshire Boulevard, the border with upper-crust Los Angeles where the very rich lived and shopped.
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On the day of Gray's funeral, the mall, in West Baltimore, had been a flash point of confrontation among police clad in riot gear, protesters, and looters, but now the scene was placid.
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Alex Martinez, a 31-year-old American trapped on the Dutch part of St. Martin by Irma, said looters tried to raid his near-deserted hotel before he and others chased them off.
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And as food supplies dwindle and Trywell's neighbors succumb to buyouts and looters, the movie pulls inward, focusing its tug between tradition and modernity in Trywell's resistance to his son's fantastical-seeming plan.
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The law arrived at a time when recent advances in technology, including robotic subs and 3D radar scans, made many of the wrecks accessible to looters, treasure hunters, and others capable of causing damage.
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Image 2 of 2 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Looters pillaged burned and vandalized shops in Haiti&aposs capital Sunday following two days of violent protests over the government&aposs attempt to raise fuel prices.
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It was not yet clear which of the 11 known wrecks of the German submarines had been found, and authorities said they would not give the exact location of the wreck to deter looters.
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Looters smashed shop windows and made off with merchandise in more than 300 businesses across the state, located along the border with Colombia, the Zulia chapter of business organization Fedecamaras said in a statement.
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"When you live without law it, is like a jungle," said biker Tariq Shalbot, recalling that he had to guard his home from looters during the fighting in Tripoli in the summer of 2014.
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Were hordes of thirsty, hungry, panicked Americans to stream out of cities after, say, the collapse of the national grid, few looters would reach the mostly mountainous, forested and, in winter, bitterly cold Redoubt.
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More names of those involved in antiquities trade – regime, ISIS and 'rebels,' antiquities looters and dealers, and Gulf financiers and middlemen - need to be added to terror and anti-money laundering watch lists, now.
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Municipal officials later said that gunshots had been fired by homeowners who were trying to ward off looters, and were not a sign of sustained shooting or any attack by the area's Marxist insurgency.
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It was the first federal action taken to establish cultural and historical areas as important public resources and instructs federal land managers to protect archaeological sites from grave robbers, looters and acts of vandalism.
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" Without identifying the perpetrators, he urged recruits at a police training academy to act with neither "ambiguity or half-measures" towards "hoodies, looters and vandals, nor those who put up barricades or obstruct traffic.
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With new tires now going for about 70 million bolivars - about $300 on the black market or more than two decades of work at the official minimum wage - looters often swipe them along with food.
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The US Embassy urged citizens to stay inside as Haitians armed themselves with guns and looters burned down buildings, pillaged shops and set up fiery roadblocks in clashes with local police over the price change.
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Archaeologists at the Albanian Underwater Archaeology conference warned Tuesday that the wealth of underwater artifacts in the country&aposs southwestern seabed, near its border with Greece, could easily fall prey to looters or treasure hunters.
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On Saturday, in the port city of Valparaiso, the offices of the country's oldest newspaper, Mercurio were torched, the agency also reports, while army has confirmed it shot and injured two people while chasing looters.
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The artist painted "Looters" on a building owned by Sean Cummings, who had received a tip that Banksy was interested in painting on his property and, unsurprisingly, approved the act, as The Times-Picayune reported.
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They added that the shop was most likely ransacked following the eruption by looters who burrowed in "on the hunt for treasures buried under the ashes," as the bodies were pushed up against the wall.
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Legend has it that looters ransacking a cave in Mexico came across the badly damaged pages in the 1960s, along with a turquoise mask, a sacrificial knife, and some blank pieces of fig-bark paper.
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But the classification has only increased the appetite of looters who are willing to pay local farmers as much as $222 a day for the right to dig for buried treasures under the cover of darkness.
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Since then, several claims he made publicly have come under scrutiny, including one that during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 the Navy placed him on top of the Superdome in New Orleans, where he shot 30 looters.
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Open to anyone with internet access, it trains users to spot tell-tale signs left by man — from shapes indicative of ancient structures to scars marked by looters — and flag areas potentially in need of exploration.
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By last weekend, hundreds of stores had been looted around the country and more than 1,000 people detained, the authorities said, and at least six people had been killed in clashes between looters and the police.
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Lai Mohammed, the information minister, said late on Sunday that IPOB was set up as "a tool to destabilize the nation" sponsored by people he called a "coalition of the politically disgruntled and the treasury looters".
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Barefoot or wearing sandals, they played music, drank cold beers and reminisced about the chaotic days after the hurricane, when they worked together to re-establish water and electricity, salvage wrecked boats and fend off looters.
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In the video game and 2001 film starring Angelina Jolie, Croft was herself raiding tombs — but this time, Croft and her father are trying to stop looters from robbing the cursed resting place of a Japanese queen.
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"Not only was he a d—, but he had 2000 compassion and he literally accused us of being looters and threatened us that we were going to be arrested if we kept giving him trouble," she continued.
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Curfews were declared in numerous communities on Sunday evening, including Tampa, St. Petersburg and the central Florida resort city of Orlando as several Florida counties reported arrests of looters taking advantage of homes left vacant by evacuations.
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While well-known petroglyphs or other prehistoric sites are occasionally publicized for public viewing, federal land managers often go to great lengths to keep such locations secret when they can't be safely protected from vandals and looters.
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GlobalXplorer's tutorial video teaches you how to analyze these images, going over the common characteristics of looters, from the tell-tale clusters of deep pits to the tracks left by bulldozers used to ram through large areas.
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The attorney general's office in Venezuela said 11 people had died of electrocution and gunshot wounds "in acts of violence" in El Valle, a neighborhood of mixed loyalties, where armored vehicles struggled to contain crowds of looters.
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A high end 4-star resort in Florida has hired an armed security team to protect the building from looters in the wake of Hurricane Irma ... and one of the officers is ex-boxing champ Michael Moorer.
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But its scale is in many ways similar: Whereas the Islamic State has moved about $300 million in antiquities over the past couple of years, Egyptian looters have moved perhaps ten times that in the past four.
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The Division is set in version of the present, and its human targets are conjured from an uncomfortable theory that should the terrorists win, some good-hearted government agents will need to kill all the looters and rioters.
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She and a team of computer scientists and roboticists from Ryerson University in Toronto are developing remote-controlled machines to explore the unstable underground tunnels that are dug by looters, and may be filled with overlooked archaeological treasures.
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"I'm staying out here to try to keep away looters, to try to save what I can save," said Bernard Sutton, a 64-year-old cancer patient, who has been living out of a tent and broken-down minivan.
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After a close encounter with a pair of looters, she teams up with Stupe, a gruff janitor whose battlefield medical skills, collection of firearms, and references to military tactics clearly indicate that he's much more dangerous than he appears.
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After Hurricane Harvey in 2017, some gun owners, backed by the National Rifle Association (NRA), called for the rules to be relaxed, with the NRA saying this would allow Texans to defend themselves from looters, according to the newspaper.
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"I saw it with my own eyes, how the Rakhine burned down all the Muslim houses," he said, detailing how a car belonging to a Rohingya family was lit on fire because the looters didn't know how to drive.
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He says he lost 90 percent of his property in the storm, and instead of choosing to crash with relatives, he wants to protect what he has left from looters, who four different times now have tried to raid his home.
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Provenance hunt Live Science contacted several of the identified owners (some remain anonymous) of the tablets mentioned in the databases in hopes of tracking down the looters to discover the location of the city and the motivations behind the looting.
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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FIRE RAGES AS GRANDMOTHER, 2 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN AMONG DEAD; LOOTERS TARGET EVACUEES The latest tally showed at least 517 structures destroyed and another 135 damaged, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Anthony Romero said at the press conference.
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The Division 2 If you're getting tired of running around New York City and shooting looters as a plague destroys humanity, Ubisoft is ready to move you south to Washington DC in the sequel to its Tom Clancy inspired The Division.
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Margarete Moll, known as Greta and a pupil of Matisse, lived in Germany during World War 2, and soon afterward entrusted the painting for safekeeping from looters to an art student of her husband Oskar in Switzerland, according to the complaint.
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"We are in great need of supplies, food and water, and more security," Taylor told CNN in a Facebook message, adding that she was fearful of looters and had heard stories of people being held at gunpoint in their homes.
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The protesters' anger was visible in the many streets that fan out from the Arc de Triomphe, which dominates one end of the Champs-Élysées, and along several other commercial avenues, where looters had broken windows, burned cars and built barricades.
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This needs to happen quickly, before the lands are diminished further from a growing assault by off-road vehicles, antiquity looters, and a myriad of extractive industries eyeing opportunities to exploit the landscape for their own private, short-term gain.
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He called police officers "bums" — and then apologized — in 1980 after they had vandalized looters' cars during rioting that broke out when a jury acquitted four white Miami police officers in the killing of Arthur McDuffie, a black insurance executive.
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"The government claims that we are looters and violent protesters, but so many of us are just peaceful civilians," said Mr. Michaud, a horticulturist who now wears an eye patch and says his arms were raised when he was shot.
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Finds Gone Astray, which opened on December 21978, features 40,000 artifacts that the Archaeology Department of the Civil Administration (ADCA) — Israel's military government in the West Bank — confiscated from looters and unauthorized dealers in antiquities over the past 50 years.
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Peaceful demonstration is a constitutionally guaranteed and democratic right," he said The President added that the "looters and criminals who confronted the demonstrators and the security forces with live bullets are the enemies of this homeland and the enemies of the people.
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Since concerted excavations began in the middle of the 18th century, Pompeii's rich homes, tombs and public buildings have been plundered by looters, exploited by profit-hungry private excavators, and (in some early cases) "restored" so aggressively as to spoil the original treasures.
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And according to al-Azm and Professor Donna Yates of the University of Glasgow's Antiquities Trafficking and Art Crime course, there's not much evidence that these moves have made a dent amongst actual looters, who still need to make a living somehow.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia and Indonesia are sending divers to inspect the wreck of a warship torpedoed off the coast of Java during World War Two next month to determine how best to protect the site from looters who have stripped numerous other WW2 wrecks.
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After a year, the Green Zone had acquired another connotation, as a byword for disastrous flaws in the invasion: the failure to stop looters or to restore Iraq's electricity; the decision to disband the Iraqi Army; the blindness to a growing resistance to the occupation.
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"When looters overrun historic sites, mine sacred spaces for prized relics, and peddle stolen property for top dollar, they do so with the implicit endorsement of all those who knowingly trade in stolen antiquities," the district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., said during a ceremony.
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Trash bags full of looted pills Bail bondsman Donald Stepp testified that Jenkins delivered to his Baltimore County home two trash bags full of pharmaceutical drugs stolen from looters during the April 2015 riots that followed the death of Freddie Gray, according to WBAL-TV.
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The Antiquities Act was created and passed to ward off looters who were invading archaeological sites set up by non-Native academics in the Southwest; it was not created to protect tribal lands with the intention of returning them to the Native nations they belonged to rightfully.
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So when an item is taken from the ground or out of a temple, Easter and his team are prepared to wait out the "cooling off" period that looters use to build an air of legitimacy before putting it on the market where it can be intercepted.
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" August 2014: After the death of Mike Brown and the protests that followed, King said he wasn't concerned about Missouri racially profiling looters "because they all appear to be of a single origin, I should say, a continental origin might be the way to phrase that.
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WSOC-TV reported that looters later moved off the highway and tried to break into a Walmart before officers arrived in force to keep them out, and at least one family driving on Interstate 85 reported that their windshield had been shattered by demonstrators throwing rocks.
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Instead of trying to piece together the life taken from her by Matthew — and the looters that came after the storm — Kennedy moved with her two children into a trailer home in the town of Fayetteville, the only area she said she could afford to go to.
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The complaint against Ms. Wiener provides a rare look at how looters, smugglers, art dealers and others may conspire to plunder relics from Indian shrines or Cambodian jungle temples, ferry them into the United States, give them fake pedigrees, and burnish them for sale as lawful imports.
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"This street was a looters' paradise, with thieves taking furniture, doorknobs, anything the Americans left behind," said Expedito Duarte de Brito, 21921, a retired milkman who dwells in one of the homes built for Ford managers in what was planned to be a utopian plantation town.
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The site was difficult to excavate because of the need to remove an estimated 40,000 stones, caused by the collapse of the tombs' domes in antiquity -- a factor that helped to protect it from looters, according to a statement from the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports.
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Over the next five years he should also allow prosecutors free rein to hunt looters; break up Eskom's power monopoly; enact a moratorium on job-killing regulations; take on the teachers' unions that throttle education reform; and ensure that any land reform extends property rights rather than trampling on them.
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Chris Kyle, the soldier portrayed by Cooper in American Sniper, bragged (probably falsely) about killing hundreds of men, and not just in Iraq: He claimed to have shot two carjackers dead in Texas, as well as 30 looters from a perch on New Orleans' Superdome in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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" It's a novel about how the government of the United States punishes successful business people, how it sees them as the villains of society, and how a mysterious heroic man called John Galt convinces business leaders to walk away from their companies as a "strike" by productive individuals against the "looters.
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The scene is quietly frank compared with the rest of the episode, which features a spry discussion about Ta-Nehisi Coates as well as several tips from Ruby on how to survive a riot (eat bland food to "keep the toilets moving"; pelt looters in the head with frozen fruit).
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Photo: Some of the thousands of artifacts that were returned to Iraq today (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)According to the Department of Justice, an expert advised Hobby Lobby in 2500 that the items it sought to purchase could come from unethical looters who were plundering archaeological sites in war-torn Iraq.
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Especially in the online market, fakes encourage potential looters by leaving records of sales prices for the type of artifact that the looter could obtain and sell — since either the looter cannot tell that the listed object is a fake or will believe that the genuine version will sell for even more.
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" He's even defending Republican congressional representative Steve King, who recently argued "we can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies," has embraced birther conspiracies about former President Obama, and said racial profiling looters in Ferguson was okay because they "all appear to be of a single origin, I should say, a continental origin.
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"Looters," as the work has come to be called, was removed from its original site on the exterior wall of a warehouse in 2014 and placed in the hands of local conservator Elise Grenier, who has worked in Italy for most of her career, on sites ranging from the Florence Cathedral to the Badia Fiorentina.
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"I apologize to all the cops and the firefighters and 9/11 heroes who had no choice but to stand and turn their backs on Mayor de Blasio because Mayor de Blasio over and over again stands with the looters and the criminals rather than the brave men and women of blue," he said.
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After the Cultural Revolution, the student who kicked him was up for promotion to a leadership position and the organization [the Communist Party] came to him to check if that person had been one of the "Three Kinds of People" [instigators of rebellion, supporters of the Gang of Four or "beaters, smashers and looters"].
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Crime On the twelfth day of Christmas, my writers gave to me: twelve stalkers stalking, eleven burglars burgling, ten sleuths a-sleuthing, nine creeps a-creeping, eight looters looting, seven broken toys, six screaming kids, five overcooked birds, four stolen presents, three drunken uncles, two dead Santas and a madman swinging from a pear tree.
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This open access, of course, means looters themselves may dig into the resource, but GlobalXplorer is built to ensure land anonymity to prevent any malicious acts: there are tens of millions of small tiles, broken up from DigitalGlobe's satellite images, and each is displayed to users at random, with no option to zoom or navigate.
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The second wave of destruction, for businesses at least, was man-made: looters were picking through the remains, sometimes in view of police officers who stood idly by, "as if they were buying groceries," said Maeva-Myriam Ponet, a correspondent for a television network based in Guadeloupe, another French Overseas Territory in the Caribbean.
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In a 2014 essay "Virtues Impracticable and Extremely Difficult: The Human Rights of Subsistence Diggers," Sam Hardy argued that instead of trying to outgun looters, cultural heritage professionals should ensure their projects have a positive economic impact on local communities and conserve sites as a sustainable economic resource so that there is no longer any motive to loot them.
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Four of his alleged co-conspirators are facing charges in the U.S. This evolution in combating the looters and dealers began with a case dubbed "Operation Lost Treasure," which began after Easter and his colleagues identified an organization out of Dubai that was obtaining and selling stolen artifacts from Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Turkey, and elsewhere in the region.
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During the demonstration, as you might remember, a new word came into our global vocabulary when Erdoğan described all the protestors as chapulling, or "just a few looters" Yet in one way or another, the Gezi protest seemed to have achieved its aim in terms of being a potential threat to Erdoğan for the subsequent general election on June 227, 2015.
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And to the police officers, and the firemen, and the first responders, the heroes who rushed in to burning buildings instead of out of burning buildings, the last seven years of having a president, having an attorney general that demonizes you, that vilifies you, that sides with the criminals land looters instead of the brave men and women of law enforcement, that will end on January 20, 2017.
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Ric Grenell Stock markets gets Wall Street vote of confidence , despite trade war jitters &aposSHELTER IN PLACE&apos: The U.S. embassy in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince told American citizens to remain inside until further notice Sunday as the city continues to be gripped by violent protests ... Looters pillaged burned and vandalized shops in Haiti&aposs capital Sunday following two days of violent protests over the government&aposs attempt to raise fuel prices .
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"It encourages Syrians who are without jobs or other resources to become looters and treasure hunters in their own backyard," says Kate Fitz Gibbon, an art and cultural heritage lawyer based in the US. "The US State Department and archaeological extremists have hijacked the Syrian crisis to claim that cultural losses are due to a multi-billion-dollar market in illicit antiquities backed by ISIS, which does not and never has existed," she tells The Creators Project over email.
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While food, medicine, water, and gas remain in short supply across the country, public services have collapsed; gangs control entire towns; looters ransack businesses; spotty electricity leaves towns without banking, cellphone, and other services for days at a time; store owners try to stay in business by repairing power lines on their own; butchers sell offal, fat shavings, and calves' hooves because consumers can't afford meat; and at least three million Venezuelans have fled the country.
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To a society coming from the feel-good ethos of 90s multiculturalism, images of black people being branded as "looters" while white people were simply "scavenging" for supplies were a sharp reminder of a racial ugliness in our national character that most people preferred to ignore (not to mention, as Wayne does, the images of people on the news smiling and saying everything was ok when the reality was anything but), soon borne out in the horrifically slow logistical response.
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Read more: Lindsey Graham says he owns a semiautomatic rifle in case of apocalyptic lawlessness so looters know 'not to come to the AR-15 home' I'm a liberal who moved to a conservative town — here are the most shocking things I discovered about how conservatives see the world NRA head Wayne LaPierre, America's most public gun rights advocate, made $1.4 million in 2017 — here's what we know, and don't know, about his finances The El Paso shooting suspect wanted to get Russian-developed ammunition that gun bloggers have raved is the 'most lethal'
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"Members of the CSA are tied by a non-traditional religion which includes faith healing, speaking in tongues, and a prophecy which says that society will soon collapse in turmoil," a 1982 internal FBI report stated: In preparation for this, the group stockpiles food and weapons and trains themselves in military and survival procedures…taught are firearms and marksmanship, rappelling, foraging for food, erection of such obstacles as punji sticks and barbed wire to detour looters [sic], urban warfare, military field craft, national forest survival, home defense, Christian martial arts, Christian military truths, nuclear survival and tax protesting.
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