The plywood is covered with murals – indulgences paid to BLM. 6GPN3MjDDuĪcross the street, the Louis Vuitton store is reopened, though it is still boarded up after getting stripped of several multiple thousand dollar bags and other high-end merchandise in the same riot. Most the store is still damaged and closed off. Picking up a HonePod Mini on first day of the Portland Apple Store re-opening. This customer who visited the day the store re-opened said much of the store was sealed off, telegraphing that repairs were still being made because the damage, he thinks, was much worse than the store let on. Victoria Taft – Parler, Minds, Facebook, 5VTShow February 27, 2021 The Oregonian newspaper’s Shane Kavanaugh reported that someone said it “looks like you have to enter a prison to get a MacBook.” It's garnering a lot of negative attention, and rightfully so. I know I brought it up yesterday, but this is an extremely bad look for Apple and I hope they take down the fence sooner than later. Īpparently, the reporter must have bought all those fake press accounts that rioters were “peaceful,” noting the fencing is “garnering a lot of negative attention, and rightfully so.” It implies that the community is a threat. This is an extremely grim look IMO, and arguably worse optics than staying closed altogether for a little while longer. The Wells Fargo bank has also been damaged.īut he says the fence is “an extremely grim look IMO, and arguably worse optics than staying closed longer.” #Portland: Protesters have looted several stores in Portland, including an Apple Store and a Louis Vuitton store. I can’t imagine where he would get that idea.

Adult in the Room Podcast February 25, 2021īy the next day, the store had removed the jersey barriers and replaced the black mesh with an opaque one.īut the fence triggered Michael Steeber, a reporter for 9to5Mac, who said the fence “implies that the community is a threat.” I happened to go by the Apple Store the day before it reopened, while on a self-guided and self-coined Portland Dystopian Tour and noticed the black mesh fencing and plastic jersey barriers surrounding the store.ĭon't miss the #Portland #Dystopia Tour on the latest Room Podcast with the #Apple store that was looted and partially destroyed in the name of social justice. The store still sits behind a high fence, an homage to wokeness, communicating an unspoken plea, “Please don’t hurt us!” Both Portland groups are run by the same family. The murals stayed up unmolested until January, when the store donated them to the group Don’t Shoot PDX, an offshoot of Black Lives Matter in Portland. The head of Don’t Shoot PDX, who has publicly proclaimed that there is no such thing as peaceful protest, took a victory photo in front of the commandeered panels. But soon, graffiti artists and muralists festooned the fence line with black power pictures and homages to George Floyd and the visages of other black people “murdered” by police.Īpple’s downtown Portland store reopens Monday after nearly nine months /Q9gzOrww30

The looting and destruction were just the beginning of 120 days of violent nighttime violence in the City of Roses.Īpple store in Portland being looted during protest /GqmGCOqRktĪfter the store got trashed, Apple put up black sheets of plywood on the jersey barrier moored fences to protect it.

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