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They have just come in and sort of ran and sacked this.
If you follow me over here, you can see even the clocks were not left alone.
I mean, Tupperware.
I mean, these people were desperate.
I can't go back any further because employees and I believe officers who are trying to keep this place safe won't let me.
But this place has been completely gutted and destroyed by Black Lives Matter rioters and looters.
This is what is happening across America that the media refuses to show.
We had to go past police.
They asked us not to come in here, but we've got to show you the truth of what this group is doing.
And that was only after the first round of looting.
Wait until you see some of the videos from journalists like BG on the scene on Twitter of what happened after the second and third rounds of what turned out to be a chaotic night where Philadelphia police and the government lost control of several city blocks in widespread riots and looting.
There was a 15-year-old shot, over 30 businesses completely destroyed, and I got jumped, as you probably have already heard.
We've got a great show for you today.
Unfortunately, it's at the expense of a neighborhood in the East Coast that really saw some absolutely terrible behavior that has become commonplace in this country and ignored by the corporate media.
We've got also plenty of new footage anyway.
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Let's talk about why Philadelphia happened here for a moment.
So there was a man.
I will say this.
Yes, he was black.
Allegedly, he was mentally ill, but also confidently he was holding a knife and marching at police after he was told to put it down.
I know that is probably blurred for most of you guys, but you can always find that clip online if you haven't already seen it.
So this man, Walter Wallace Jr. in the Middle West, Philly, he was approaching police while he was carrying a knife.
They told him to put it down.
He refused to put it down and he was shot.
Some people say there was 10 shots.
Others say there was 14 shots.
I just say it was a lot of them.
Now he's deceased.
The mother threw something at the police.
The city was up in arms.
And this is where we get into, I was watching this video online.
I told my producer, Sav, I was like, we need to go to Philadelphia.
I said, you have 20 minutes.
Pack your bags.
We're getting on a plane because that's what we do here at Slightly Offensive to bring you what we are about to show you.
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Okay, so let's talk about this.
So this is going to be broken up into a few sections.
This is very important.
This is kind of going to be an extended episode, a look into this.
I know some of you guys are not into the long form, but there's a lot to be said, a lot to show, including an interview with another journalist who, like I said, Walter Wallace happened to be black.
This journalist happened to be white, who was also attacked that night as many Caucasian people were targeted, what I believe for the color of their skin.
James Kluke will be on later today.
But the protest started at the 18th Precinct in West Philadelphia at a planned march at Malcolm X Park.
And there were about 400 or so people, according to reports.
Let's look at that.
So as you can see here, this is a large group of people mixed between Black Lives Matter and Black Bloc, like we're used to seeing.
And on top of that, they were being led in the red and those shirts that you're seeing.
That is the socialist party.
This is called intersectionality, right?
These marches often don't have any real reason of why they're there.
They don't really understand what they're marching for.
You know, it used to be about unarmed black men getting killed.
Then it switched to mentally ill people in Lancaster.
That was the first time we really saw that.
That was also in Pennsylvania.
Drew Hernandez of the Tatum Report and Lives Matter show, we broke that riot.
We do our best to break whatever riots we can for the news.
But they were marching together.
Now, what we've been finding is that this lie that all conflicting ideologies can work together to fight the people in power, which is what you see, right?
The feminists, the gays, the transgenders or the T people, as we call them here, they fight against the power.
But essentially, you can't all work together when you want different things.
And so they started to fight each other in the streets.
I think we have a clip of this here.
So what you're looking at here, we're going to roll this is you're going to start to see there's the black block Antifa, some journalists that are surrounding here, Black Lives Matter with the flags, the socialists in their red hat.
They got into a scuffle over who is leading the group because what you're going to find is that there's a lot of black people.
That's a black block, black, and black Antifa.
The black people in these riots that are mad about the way they feel like the black community has been treated keep getting co-opted by white people.
This is very common with white leftists is where they feel like they're a white savior complex and that they like she's ripping up the sign of the socialists being like, get out of here.
You know what I mean?
Like literally, what are you doing?
This is not a socialist march.
We're not fighting for socialism.
We're fighting against police killing black people.
That's what they're fighting against, whether or not it's warranted.
And they're getting into a fight.
And now here's what's crazy is if you're a white person and you film, they will attack you.
But this is what I call black privilege.
If you're a black person and you attack them, they won't strike you back because they believe that black people can do no wrong.
Now, I like, this is the one Antifa that I like because she actually was making a point.
Like, let the black people do what they want to do and cry out the injustices.
We don't need a bunch of white people in red hats protecting us.
So, Antiva broke away from the Black Lives Matter people and the socialists, and they created their own march.
And so what you're going to see here is they started getting involved with police.
So police caught up to them on bikes.
We marched in separate directions.
We split off the group.
There's about 80 of us.
And I want you to watch this.
For those of you guys that are my blind viewers, that, you know, those are in America, we call them listeners, but I just call you a blind viewer.
The Antifa were surrounding a few bike cops.
I'm running along with them.
And Antifa has a rule that you can't record protesters, which I don't care about, but they can suck it, really.
Oh, I can't film you.
How about no, how about I do?
But you'll see that they're trying to impede the bike officers, men and women, from tracking alongside the protest by placing cones in front of them, by assaulting them physically.
And this is just evidence as you're watching this that we don't live in a police state, right?
They're fighting against police brutality in one hand.
And the truth is, is, you know, like, this is another clip.
This was captured by producer Savannah, who's amazing.
And she's so good.
You should follow her on Twitter.
Sav says, she's links in the description.
She's so good at this as well.
I'm really, the show's gotten better since she jumped on.
They're putting cones and they're attacking a female cop.
I mean, these people, look at this.
I mean, they're like saying that the police use unwarranted force, which is true in some cases.
But if the police were really brutal and we lived in a fascist dictatorship, this wouldn't, you wouldn't survive this.
You would be dead.
You would die.
They would shoot you or they would beat the living snot out of you.
So I'm just going to say this was point one for police and point zero for Antifa.
But this is still, I would say, mostly peaceful, right?
Besides assaulting cops, we've gotten used to that.
That's like a low threshold.
But then the groups converged at the 18th Police Precinct, which is around where this shooting of Walter Wallace happened.
And this is where you saw the escalation of the members of the Black Lives Matter community start to harass the riot police.
Listen to this poetry, really highly collegiate, well-thought-out words that this man had to say to police officers to air his grievances.
I forgot to warn you.
There's a language warning in this episode.
Language warning.
Well, we do know that black men do like white women.
That's a thing.
I think it's a fetish.
I know white girls like black guys too.
There's a, I don't know why.
If anyone knows why, I don't know why.
That there's like a fetish thing going on.
I just think anyone can like whoever they want.
They can date whoever they want.
But this man specifically wanted to have sex with this white cop's wife.
He must like white women.
Hey, we all got our own thing.
He also said to F the police.
He's, you know, really showcasing class and civility and also reminding us that the police, again, are not fascists and they're actually not brutal.
They're there to keep law and order.
It reminds me there was a whole group of police that were always, they were hyping each other up.
Every time people yelled and screamed obscenities at them, they're like, yeah, having fun.
It was totally fun.
But then they even took it a step further.
This individual who was drunk ended up getting arrested.
He's actually started assaulting the officers.
Now, I know he was hitting their shields.
You go, that's not assault.
This is, yeah, this is you see them here.
They're hitting the shields of these officers.
These are quick clips, but um, it's important to realize that people always cry out to the cops that they're brutalizing people, that they're escalating the violence.
I'm not a bootlicker, meaning I don't even care if you call me that.
I have my own criticisms and own ideas of sometimes of officers and my interactions.
For the most part, police officers are pretty cool and pretty chill.
And even if you talk to police officers, they'll always admit there's a couple dicks inside their departments.
And there are people who sometimes are unable to be self-controlled.
But I always remind people that remember, one of the leading causes of death in the United States is medical malpractice, which means you have more, you're more likely to die at the hands of a lazy or distracted or tired health official than you are of a law enforcement official.
So there are bad people in every department and job and field, but for the most part, law enforcement, like any other job, are full of professional individuals who are just trying to do what they were hired to do.
So then this other girl reminded us that this movement is not about black people.
It's just about against law and order.
She had some other kind words, discretion.
This is probably for 13 and older, or 12 and older, I don't know, or 11, depending on what neighborhood you grew up in.
She had some nice words to say to black, black cops.
I mean, you're probably the number one reason why they're there.
It's like literally people like you are actually why they're there.
She called them things, the N-word, which I guess black people have a past to say.
She called them coons, which I don't want to educate me in the comments.
I should know this.
I followed Joel Patrick.
He talks about this stuff on Instagram.
But I don't know what that phrase coon is about.
But you see this attack.
I mean, they don't really care.
It really is an anti-police and law and order movement because even if it's black cops, they don't like them.
Even if it's woman cops, they don't like them.
But as I was watching with these people, I want to remind you that I was attacked for the first time while filming them.
The Antifa bras, they were saying some.
This is also, guys, this is a peaceful movement.
Jake Tapper, Oliver Darcy, Don Lamont are correct.
These people just want, they want, they want freedom.
They want life.
They're not violent.
AOC said they just want bread.
Listen to this cry of justice, of mercy, this unifying message.
This is such a great time.
And I want to remind you when they say precinct they mean police precinct as in police buildings Yeah, so stop yelling Can I just bring this up for a second?
Now, I know my voice is a little annoying, right?
I'm like a little bit tied between a seven-year-old kid, Jerry Seinfeld, and your sister.
But, you know, I was born with this voice.
I was just born this way.
I was just born this way.
You know, who wasn't the way I wasn't born is to attack people for filming.
Now, they say this rule: you can't film protesters.
That's not a law, by the way.
There's nothing that says in America you can't do that.
They made that up because they don't live under the Constitution.
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Anyway, let's jump back into this.
So that was happening in one part of the city.
And meanwhile, in the north side of the city, that was West Philly.
Now we went to the north side of the city.
We heard that rioting and looting was going on.
And this is the, in the Aramingo and Amingo Avenue in Port Richmond.
Looting began in the parking lot of a Walmart super center.
There's the famous five below, where we'll get into that.
You probably have already seen.
I was on Steven Crowder, Tucker Carlson, Glenn Beck, Levin, a lot of shows out there just talking to them about this story.
But we're giving you guys the most information because it's really important that you guys get the best of the best because we save that for our audience.
So apparently, brown people, we already saw you can attack people.
You can film people.
They're racist.
These people are racist.
They don't like white people.
I'm just telling you the truth.
And then people are like, oh, you're a white supremacist.
Could you say this?
It's like, no, I'm anti-supremacy.
I'm against black supremacy, white supremacy, brown supremacy.
I think all people should be treated equally.
And I think anybody targeted for their skin color should be not treated like this.
But look at this.
These people are indiscriminately rioting and looting.
The police were unable to get this under control, not because they didn't have the resources, from my understanding, but because they were told to stand down.
I'm going to remind you that as you're watching this, this is a $5 discount store next to a dollar store.
These people are intentionally robbing off-brand and useless, cheap Chinese goods.
I blame this on China.
But, you know, the most important factor of this is that the individual who was leading the Portland Police Bureau in 2019, where in this same time last year, I also was on doing primetime hits because I captured the violence, the rioting, and the sheer chaos in Portland.
This individual who had the police stand down then is now helping run the Philadelphia Police Department.
Talk about a great hire.
Who was like, yeah, we're looking for someone new to run our police department.
Let's find the most dysfunctional police department in America that doesn't do their jobs because they're politically influenced.
And let's take that person and then have them lead our department so we can become just as bad as they are.
I don't know.
Well, that was their goal.
They reached it.
I want to show you this clip then of the inside of Five Below.
So I walked in, Sav walked in, everyone walked in, and they were fine.
But then I walk in and I only got to film for just a few seconds.
Do we have that clip?
Somewhere?
Maybe not.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
I guess, I guess that clip doesn't matter because who wants to watch Elijah's clip?
Sav is better at this than I am, anyways.
Um, again, you got to follow her.
Sav says she's in the description.
She has, she has really great riot coverage.
That's part of the reason why I hired her.
Um, but uh, Shelby Talcott of the Daily Caller's video clip is courtesy of her.
Her uh links are also in the description.
Um, she's Caucasian as well, but she was covered up.
She really covered up because the uh lawyers guild was trying to ID her at the other riot.
I told her to basically change her identity.
She decided to enter in the five below, and she films more indiscriminately than I do.
Um, this is a vertical video, that's why you're seeing this.
And uh, it's the dimensions are a little bit weird, but she's coming in running out.
I got some off-brand toilet paper.
Yo, I got some Doritos.
Yo, dog, what up?
I don't think they say dog.
I just came up and look, they're running.
And there's, by the way, there's security cameras and they're filming people's license plates.
People are crashing into each other over multiple things.
So she comes in, and you know, I'm just, that's me in the green jacket.
And these individuals are like, yo, I just got it.
I got an alarm clock.
Yo, I just stole an iPod charger.
It's like, yeah, sick.
Dude, get the hand sanitizer.
And they immediately start coming up to me in a mob.
Now, I want to remind you, the guy behind the guy who brings up his phone here back there, the guy in the checkered shirt, he was pointing a gun at me.
So a lot of people point out the fact of like, why didn't you fight back?
I don't know if you know this, but when someone's pointing a lethal weapon at you, or when people have guns because they were shooting people early in the night, you don't fight back.
Bullets are faster than punches, unless you're in the Matrix.
But these, where are they getting guns?
I'm pretty sure you can't, I don't know where these communities get guns, but I'd like to bring up the fact that these people are destroying their own communities.
And this is why the media doesn't cover this.
The reason why they don't cover this is because they don't want to get shot.
The reason why they don't cover this is because it's politically incorrect to point out any flaws in the African-American community.
Because I want to remind you that these are not the only African Americans that live here.
A lot of these franchises, a lot of these businesses are owned by African Americans in that area and Hispanics.
I saw the owners that were cleaning up.
A lot of these people that worked there are minorities.
And so not only did the minorities destroy their own community, but they've also destroyed for the people that are building the community.
And this is a real problem and systemic issue.
Systemic racism is not what's causing the black community to be put down.
It's the own dysfunction in their families, the lack of fathers.
And over three out of four black men are born without a father.
So they do not remain faithful to their women.
And the kids grow up without a family structure.
So they end up depending on the government who indiscriminately gives them support at a very minimal level.
And if you see a lot of the messages I saw, they feel like, you know, why isn't the government taking care of us during COVID?
And I also want to remind you that the New York Times said that they blame a lot of the increase of this violence in the black community on COVID.
But I want to remind you that the coronavirus doesn't make people shoot each other or loot, but the lockdowns do keep people bottled up to where they don't have a way to get out their aggression.
A lot of these people are very poor.
They don't have a lot of wisdom.
They grew up without a lot of morals, values, or family structure.
And so they want to do something crazy.
Why not destroy your own city?
But do you, we have screenshots with pictures?
Do we have those or no?
Yeah, okay.
It's okay.
I don't have them on my screen.
We won't even look at them.
You can go check Shelby Telcott's Twitter to see more images.
But the cops would come.
They came to five below and they didn't arrest anyone, but they came to clear out the the protesters or looters
I gotta get looser jeans That's what I was thinking when I saw that.
Yikes.
But, you know, these cops, you know, they're not even in riot gear.
Like, who goes out to clear up a riot without a helmet on?
This shows you the exact organization of this police department.
They were mad at us telling us to get the F back.
There's Richie McGinnis.
He was keeping his distance as well from the Daily Caller.
But, you know, we're out there filming.
We're just trying to get our shots.
We're trying to see this.
And they're getting mad at the press who are clearly just filming this.
Why not arrest the rioters?
Why not arrest the looters?
This is what I want to say.
And this is where we get into something really important.
I mean, Sav, luckily, she has brown privilege.
She was able to get a lot more coverage of the riding, the looting.
Let's look at a montage here of some of these stores that she kind of broke into with the riders.
I mean, you see the amount of cars.
Look how many cars there are, right?
Breaking into T-Mobile, just moving in.
What a good shot.
What a skilled person.
I mean, and they trashed the place, broken glass.
This is over a like.
Look at this.
They're boom.
The shots start low because you have to kind of be quick.
That's a Dollar Tree.
Like, you're stealing balloons.
You want to steal some balloons?
Just take a whore from Beverly Hills out to a date and you can buy her a nice dinner and you get some balloons for free there too.
And they just came in and were like, yo, give me that Chick-fil-A sauce.
This is where I would have been.
If I was poor, I would take Chick-fil-A sauce for free.
They never give enough of it.
They never give enough.
Now, let's talk about something important before we jump into the next part.
I want to remind you guys that going into the election here at Blaze TV, we really want to have more coverage.
I'm headed to Washington, D.C. to cover the unrest that's happening there.
This is the first time I finally got a live view so I can like prop, we can properly broadcast.
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We're going to try to call into a bunch of shows and give really intense live footage going on at riots and protests on the election day and night.
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There was a Trump supporter who was driving around.
He's from the area.
No one believes that because he was well-dressed.
Shows you what liberals think about the area.
And I asked him a question: you know, do you think that these riots and the looting is affecting voting?
And this is what he had to say.
This chaos affects the election.
Do you think it's going to affect voters?
unidentified
I think it's definitely going to inspire people to get footing when Trump driving through some of the quieter areas on through the city and even really pretty rundown neighborhoods.
I actually had somebody just kind of stop me and I was like, Trump flag?
I was like, yes, sir.
It's like, Trump's one trying man.
We need it.
There's very few Biden people out here.
There's only one on this and the blog points and one apartment and everything else is everybody's Trump because they don't want this.
And you know, what's really funny about this, I didn't think this clip would go anywhere.
There was just a young guy.
These guys were in a truck, right?
They had Trump flags and a Blue Lives Matter flag.
They were taking the flags off because people were trying to attack their cars.
And I asked him, you know, you live around here.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And talk to him.
Just like, hey, what's going on?
What's happening?
Tell me your thoughts on this as a Trump supporter in the area.
Now, what's really sad is this just shows you what liberals think about black people.
Everyone got really mad saying, oh, how could a well-dressed person in a button-up, you know, these are verified people, like live in this neighborhood.
As if like, just because somebody's black and may come from a disadvantaged neighborhood, they can't dress, you know, like collegiate or nice.
Or like, that's so sad how little these liberals think of black people.
It's disgusting.
On top of that, this shows you how much they believe in segregation and the fact that they don't believe that a white person could or one would like a well-dressed white person would want to live around black people.
Like, oh, yeah, of course this guy from Philadelphia looks like he's from around there.
As in they're saying like, yeah, black neighborhoods, everybody looks like thugs.
I didn't say that.
They did.
And then they went even worse.
They're like, oh, yeah, I bet this is set up.
You know, oh, yeah, like, I'm sure this is a Trump supporter.
This guy, you know, looks like everyone I knew in college.
And, you know, this, this blew up on liberal and progressive Twitter, verified blue check mark Twitter.
And that's just so sad that the reason why I think people hate this guy is because the number one hated people in America right now are actually not black people, according to the narrative.
It's straight white men.
I don't, I think he's straight.
And people even were ableists, making fun of the fact that the way he was blinking.
Poor guy was nervous.
I mean, there's riots happening.
I go to riots for a living.
This guy clearly doesn't know what a riot is.
I wouldn't wear a button-up shirt to a riot either.
He was just observing.
And he's just a nice guy.
And they're, you know, he's, oh, why is he speaking like that?
People were writing.
And I'm going, he's nervous.
I told him I was with Blaze TV.
He knew what we were.
I filmed him.
He had just filmed somebody getting shot.
He has video footage of that, by the way.
Someone getting shot three times.
The guy spooked out.
And he's just there saying, this is so sad.
I don't want this to happen to my city.
And the left, instead of, I'm telling you this, no liberals, no far-left blue checkmark people got mad at my clips about the rioting, the looting.
This is very important.
Nobody got mad about what was happening and the thieving and the shooting and my beating.
None of them, not a single freaking one got mad about that.
You know what they did freak out about?
Is a young white dude in a button-up shirt just saying that these rioting and looting was leading people to vote for Trump.
And that shows you this revolution.
It is an anti-white, anti-heteronormative, anti-educated, and most importantly, just anti-male movement.
That is, can we put a picture of him up on the screen?
There he is.
This is what, this is what these people hate.
They hate this.
They're not pro-black.
They're anti-white.
And I'm saying this: white people are under attack in America.
And people say that that's racist to say.
I say it's racist to not say that.
If you see any race in America under attack, what do we do?
Stand up, fight back.
That was pretty good, huh?
That was pretty good.
That was their chant.
And I stand by that.
And I will stand by the black community.
I will stand by the Hispanic community.
I, you know, and I hear it slightly offensive.
Both of the producers are, you know, one's Asian, Hispanic, another one's Mexican.
I'm black.
And that's what we do.
We can be whatever you want if your heart desires, but don't ever be a straight white guy in a button-up shirt because you deserve to go to hell.
I also want to bring up these tweets from, can we bring this up from Marian Williams?
I think we have this up on my computer.
This was, she ran for president, right?
Yeah, she ran for president.
This was while this was happening, she says, there are people in this country more concerned about a Walmart being looted than about an innocent man being killed.
Many of them tout the Bible, but thou shalt not loot is not in there.
Thou shalt not kill sure is.
Now, Marianne Williams, besides being somebody you would probably want to like take peyote with or like trip on shrooms with if you do that, it's not a really wise person.
She said, she corrected herself and said, oops, actually, thou shalt not steal is, of course, in there.
But my point about priorities remains the same.
Don't you love it when people quote the Bible to you and like quote morals and the Constitution and they've never even, they don't even know what they're talking about.
They never even read it.
Well, that's what we see in the left.
This is a weird defense where people are defending the looting and the rioting and they're not holding these people accountable.
And this is a problem in our communities is that, you know, people want to hold white people accountable for microaggressions, but they won't hold an entire thousands of black people accountable for looting and destroying their own community.
And that's the country we live in, you know, and I, and it's true.
And I think white people realize that.
That's why we have Antifa because they go, well, if we say we're fighting for the black cause, then we can get away with also destroying things.
We can attack buildings.
I was on crowd the other day and I said, this is how we know that it's not a racial issue.
It's an ideological issue primarily, because if you take far-left extremism and you put it on white people, they'll run up to a store, smash the windows, and throw a Molotov cocktail inside, but leave all the contents.
Then the black people will come once the windows are broken and they'll take everything out for themselves.
Both destructive people, mostly two different races, but they end up with the same problematic destruction.
And these ideologies, when applied to people and they believe they're victims, they end up leading themselves astray into problems.
But I think we need to have a real talk about race in this country, a real talk about the problems, systemic problems in the black community, the problems in the education system and these white people with mental illness that come from suburban homes that are joining these radical groups.
We have a cultural and an identity problem in the United States, and we need to solve it.
We need to fix it.
I'm going to tell you this, though.
I'm going to end with this and say that the New York Times blames us, the independent media, the journalists, for amplifying the violence.
That we are the ones responsible.
That the reason why we film this is it's we're the problem.
It's not the people committing the acts of violence.
We're the problem.
And this is why I say about slightly offensive.
We're not vulgar.
We don't make pee-pee jokes.
We have before.
Sometimes we do make peepee jokes.
You know, we don't just curse.
I have cursed.
But, you know, as a child of the living God, as a follower of Jesus Christ, but a man who still struggles with his, with the flesh, and I don't get it right all the time.
I have to say this, you know, the corporate media is getting it wrong almost all the time.
And we're doing a better job than they are.
And, you know, that's why we're changing the narrative.
And I hope you make your vote count this election.
I hope you stick with this channel if you're new here and you realize that the blood, sweat, and tears that we put into this, I mean, this is the second gun I've had pointed at me in about six weeks.
And I haven't died.
And I owe that all to Jesus Christ for saving my life.
And if you don't believe in God, I encourage you to cry out to him and to look to him because you probably need him.
You need him.
We all need him.
We have James Klug, who's an independent content creator, who's going to come onto the show right now.
So obviously you were in a very precarious situation in Philadelphia.
You were, in your words, were chased down by the looters and the rioters that were in the anti-police.
I would call it a demonstration of mass criminal activity.
Let's talk about that.
Explain to me what happened leading up to it and how that all went down.
unidentified
Yeah, for sure.
So I arrived at the scene.
I actually had a Uber driver and I kind of knew it was a little, it was getting a little bit hairy.
And so I had him drop me off maybe a couple blocks down the down the street.
And I already saw there was this Wawa getting looted.
So I made my way over there.
And as soon as I saw the destruction inside that Wawa, I mean, the place was like, there was smoke inside.
There was looters running out.
And I kind of peeked my head in, got some footage.
And behind me, in that four-block radius, there was just, you could see hundreds, if not thousands of people just absolutely looting, destroying businesses in all of these retail centers all over.
So I spent a lot of time.
I walked over there.
I spent a lot of time just low-key recording people that were running out of footlocker, that were running out of rainbow, going into the Walmart, et cetera.
I think it was AOC, but they're both just as dumb as each other.
unidentified
AOC, AOC, AOC.
Yeah, no, absolutely not.
I mean, these were thugs.
These people were opportunists.
They were taking advantage of the whole situation.
And I mean, it was just chaos.
The parking lots were filled with cars.
People were crashing into each other.
You could hear gunshots off in the distance.
And I know, obviously, multiple people were shot that night as well.
But leading up to the chase, you know, after going into Walmart that I was filming, there was, I mean, in that parking lot, keep in mind, there's no cops anywhere.
There's no National Guard anywhere.
And, you know, that parking lot was filled with hundreds of cars, people cruising up with their cars packed full of people, running in, running out, stealing everything they could.
And, you know, right before I wrapped up the night, I went into that five below, just got a quick little shot of the five below.
There was a couple people in there.
And that's when they spotted me.
And my natural reaction was to stop recording and say, you know, sorry, like just reporting.
And I started realizing that he was going after me.
Was it just, do you think it was like a gang or there was a reason like those people there specifically were so opposed to being filmed at that place like specifically?
Yeah, we both had a really bad luck at five below.
I don't know what it was.
I don't know if it was just a group of people that were in there the whole time just doing their thing.
I mean, it's a five below.
You know, I don't know why they're spending so much time there.
No, I think they don't know.
I mean, I saw a bunch of people going in and out.
I just think it was just a dangerous night to be out.
And we knew that.
And that's why we were kind of, you know, we were filming low-key, just trying to do our jobs and report on what the mainstream media is not reporting on.
And also, they're coming out and calling us out for reporting on this stuff, you know.
But I don't know what it was with that place.
And it was obviously very unsafe.
They caught me.
As soon as I saw that he was chasing after me, I actually made the quick decision to be like, okay, this is a really bad, really bad situation I'm in.
I'm going to record this.
And so as I'm sprinting, I'm stumbling around, grabbing my phone, and I start filming him chasing after me.
And I mean, you know, I don't think I've run so fast in my life because in my head, it was, okay, you run or you get caught and, you know, at the very least, I get punched in the face and get a busted flip like you.
At the very most, I get killed.
So I ran super hard.
And it was not only one guy, I dodged one guy when I was running away, like initially running away, outran the first guy, and then he called his friend as I'm getting winded.
And I start getting chased again by people.
I think he was maybe, second guy was maybe four feet, three feet away from me.
And I don't know how I pulled away, but it could have been really, really, really bad.
And I saw that, you know, one of your posts went viral on Twitter where you were talking about this.
And I believe the community actually in Philadelphia responded.
I know some of my posts too, you know, people responded.
I got a lot of the verified Twitter giving ridiculous backlash as they always do, nonsensical reactions.
But this, this wasn't just verified Twitter.
From my understanding, these were people from the community where this took place actually began engaging with your post about being chased.
Can you tell me some of what they said?
unidentified
Yeah, absolutely.
And it was actually pretty wild.
I started seeing this yesterday.
So my video of me running away made its rounds on Instagram in the community that we were in.
And so I can see people commenting, kind of like hinting that they know kind of who it was, or maybe it was their friend, and they're laughing about it.
Some people are going as far as to say, you know, mind your own business.
You shouldn't have been there unless you were looting all these things.
Like, Yeah, you should, as a reporter, you should only you should commit the crimes with the people, not actually tell the story.
That makes a lot of sense for sure.
unidentified
And I just want to say one thing super quick, too, about that.
I mean, the overwhelming majority of feedback that I got from people in the community, and I know that they live there, like I'll tap on their Instagram.
You can, you can tell that they live there, is they thought it was funny.
And it's such a bummer when you kind of look at that because you look at helping communities and you look at helping, you know, growth and businesses and creating more opportunity.
It's hard to do that when the community doesn't care.
You know, I would love to see the community come out and say, like, put these people in jail, like, you know, defending their community.
Instead, they were laughing at the community being absolutely destroyed.
Like Marianne Williams, you know, saying, why are we more mad about a Walmart being looted than we are about somebody dying?
And I think that's a false dichotomy.
It's a weird comparison people say.
Like, no, I mean, I think it's unfortunate when anybody really, especially they say he's mentally ill.
I mean, I think mental illness is a serious thing.
And, you know, it's sad that people, you know, lives lead them into positions where they get killed by police officers.
Some police officers' shootings are unwarranted.
It's sad that police officers are even put in those positions or sometimes, you know, make decisions to get there.
But also, like, I'm not saying anything about anyone dying.
I'm just saying we don't, we live in a society of law and order and you cannot loot a Walmart.
And that's a very serious thing.
I mean, if you saw the article that Walmart actually is removing all guns, ammunition, and weapons off their store floors around the country because they're so afraid of volatile looting ahead of the election.
And you see that, you know, this is a community problem.
Walmarts tend to not be in upper income communities.
They tend to be in lower income communities.
And so if the owners of this multi-billion dollar corporation are already thinking so poorly of the people in their community that they're thinking they're already going to steal their guns, that they're making preemptive moves.
I mean, this just shows you the really sad state of where these communities are, where they have been, and where they might, you know, seem to be going in the future.
My last just quick question to you is, you know, if people want to find you, if they want to look you up, I know you make a lot of really great videos on YouTube.
We're really glad you're okay, but how can they find you?
unidentified
Yeah, so you can find me youtube.com/slash James Klug at James Klug on Instagram, K-L-U-G, and then real James Klug on Facebook and Twitter.
