In the wake of last year’s #BlackLivesMatter/#Antifa riots, shoe retailer Foot Locker went full virtue signaling, pledging to commit $200 million over five years to the “black community.” Usually this amounts to payoffs to far left black activists, tossing some black suppliers a few more crumbs, and hoping no one audits your promises after five years.
So what did all that virtue signaling earn Foot Locker when rioting broke out in Minneapolis yet again? A big, steaming plate of bupkis:
Footlocker stores in Minnesota were looted and trashed once again despite the company having donated $200 million dollars to Black Lives Matter causes in the past year.
Minnesota has been hit with yet more violent unrest over the last two nights in response to the police killing of Daunte Wright, who was shot by a female officer who mistook a gun for a taser.
Footage from Sunday night showed looters breaking into a shoe store and stealing Nike trainers, because apparently justice for Daunte Wright looks an awful lot like getting your hands on a brand new pair of Air Max.
By the end of the night, around 20 Brooklyn Center businesses had been looted as well as sporadic looting in surrounding areas, and the chaos was repeated last night.
Apparently, the opportunistic thugs who looted both stores didn’t care too much for Nike and Footlocker’s commitment to helping Black Lives Matter causes.
Paying off radical Marxists spouting a totalitarian ideology is a poor business strategy. They can’t protect you from the mob and all your Dane-geld won’t prevent them from turning on you.
Once you have paid him Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane