On Jan . 7 more than 100 people were arrested after protesters marched through the city breaking store windows and setting cars and trashcans on fire.
As the march gradually moved downtown toward the Convention Center, a few hundred anarchists used targeted "black bloc" property-destruction tactics against Starbucks, Nike, Nordstrom, and other stores, and a few protesters burned trash cans and broke store windows.
Things quickly got out of control once the group left their gathering point in Logan Circle, with individuals from within the group of mostly black-clad demonstrators breaking store windows, throwing newspaper boxes, spray-painting cars, smashing parking meters and hurling rocks at officers.
They are now show footage of the riots and people that are saying rioters destroyed their livings...I want to reiterate that for 3 or 4 hours I walked through street fighting, I didn't see one broken store window or one car damaged.
And as former Apple retail chief Ron Johnson has said, retail isn't broken, stores are.
One of his initial criticisms was that Gap stores looked "broken".
Sun Yan, a Beijing-based consultant for Boston Consulting Group, says that this practice began as a way for domestic manufacturers of new products to break into stores, but the stores have extended the model to multinational companies.
While most drivers would never break a store window for the thrill of it, those same drivers think nothing of breaking speed limits.
I suppose the downside of indie publishing is that it is still very difficult to break into store space.
Outside, Boyd was in an agitated state from the drug and threatened to break a store window, but Harrison pulled her away.
