{"id":1787380,"date":"2022-12-26T20:18:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T01:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1787380"},"modified":"2022-12-26T20:50:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T01:50:40","slug":"looters-ransack-upstate-new-york-businesses-amid-deadly-blizzard-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/looters-ransack-upstate-new-york-businesses-amid-deadly-blizzard-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Looters Ransack Upstate New York Businesses Amid Deadly Blizzard Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flooters-ransack-upstate-new-york-businesses-amid-deadly-blizzard-conditions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1787380&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Looters vandalized and damaged businesses in upstate New York over the weekend. Local authorities were prevented from conducting regular patrols due to dangerously low temperatures and extreme winter weather.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, New York State Police responded to social media claims that businesses were attacked and merchandise stolen in Buffalo. At least 27 of these incidents occurred. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/26\/weather\/arctic-winter-storm-new-york-blizzard-monday\/index.html\">reported dead<\/a> After a huge snowstorm, New York was the only city that saw it.<\/p>\n<p>Local media reported that the stores included all Wegmans, Tops locations in Erie County. These stores were closed Friday due to the storm. \u201conce in a generation\u201d storm.<\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s report by the Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown stated that looters were taking advantage of unsupervised stores. \u201cthe lowest of the low.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know how these people can even live with themselves, how they can look at themselves in the mirror,\u201d Mayor Brown stated.<\/p>\n<p>Brown stated that those who looted while others were killed in the severe winter storm were also included. \u201cabsolutely reprehensible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd from some of the pictures that we\u2019ve seen on social media of these looters, they\u2019re not looting foods and medicines, they\u2019re just looting items that they want,\u201d The mayor stated. \u201cSo these aren\u2019t even people in distress \u2014 these are people who are taking advantage of a national disaster and the suffering of many in our community to take what they want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two civilians spoke with a local <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/video\/news\/reports-of-looting-in-buffalo\/71-871b4265-40ce-4b71-9bd0-271271e57cae\">NBC affiliate<\/a> About the looting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not about a need,\u201d According to one source \u201cIt was a storm for one day \u2014 it\u2019s not about a need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExactly,\u201d According to the other source. \u201cThey took TV sets.<\/p>\n<p>New York State Police Superintendent Steven A. Nigrelli told local media authorities were dispatched to two confirmed reports of looting incidents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose are still under investigation as we speak,\u201d Nigrelli claimed. \u201cThose are isolated incidents, and it\u2019s not reflective of the great community of Western New York, and I\u2019m sure that they\u2019ll be limited to those two incidents \u2014 or at least that\u2019s our hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Local media reported that Joseph Gramaglia, City Police Commissioner, said authorities had made an arrest. \u201cfew\u201d Arrests for looting during the weekend<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been able to \u2014 throughout the storm \u2014 transition our patrol officers to get back [to] their patrol efforts while we have our search and rescue recovery teams that are going out and doing the very difficult work of recovering bodies,\u201d Gramaglia stated, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/26\/looters-ransack-snowbound-buffalo-as-cops-are-stuck-elsewhere\/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&#038;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&#038;utm_medium=SocialFlow\">The New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>New York Gov. Kathy Hochul issued a statement about price gouging as another side effect of this once-in-a century winter storm. Local media reported it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrice gouging is illegal, \u201cHochul <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wivb.com\/news\/local-news\/buffalo\/buffalo-mayor-looters-during-blizzard-are-lowest-of-the-low\/\">said<\/a>. \u201cWe have the attorney general\u2019s office and our state is prepared to investigate any complaints of price gouging. Those who engage in this disgusting practice at a time when people in our community are hurting, when they\u2019re trying so hard to get basic necessities, there\u2019s a scarcity because stores have been closed since Friday, then shame on them. And they\u2019re going to meet the law in a way they probably didn\u2019t encounter. We\u2019re going to be going after them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Department of Financial Services is engaging the insurance industry,\u201d Hochul added \u201cmaking sure we have claims adjusters on the ground to help people who\u2019ve had damage. Whether it\u2019s the weight of snow on their roofs, whether it\u2019s water damage \u2026 we want to make sure people know we\u2019ll get help to them as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New York officials imposed travel bans in Buffalo, New York and the surrounding areas. They asked drivers to avoid the roads so that emergency services can have a clear route.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul added that the law is inherently violated by anyone who is alone. \u201cwill be ticketed,\u201d While members of the National Guard will stop drivers in areas that have bans,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looters ransacked and damaged upstate New York businesses over the weekend as deadly extreme winter weather and low temperatures froze local authorities from performing regular patrols. New York State Police reportedly responded to claims across social media that some businesses had their windows smashed and merchandise damaged and stolen in the City of Buffalo as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1787383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6962,4404,11687,6002,4323,6202,3650,11933,6420,11931,11932,6195,3859],"class_list":["post-1787380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-the","tag-amid","tag-blizzard","tag-businesses","tag-conditions","tag-daily","tag-deadly","tag-looters","tag-new","tag-ransack","tag-upstate","tag-wire","tag-york"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1787383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}