"They're not going to be looting next time," said Kevin Seltzer, 30, who lives at an apartment complex near where Brown, 18, was shot.
People didn't really – like there was little pieces about who's going to this area to loot that shop, 'I'll come,' you got that, but it wasn't really about rioting, mostly about looting.
Either way this is sort of like an unprecedented phenomenon - the idea of going to war not just to loot your enemy, but to loot yourself".
"First they shell you to chase you out, then the army goes in to loot the lightweight stuff like jewellery and mobile phones.
He said he could understand if people went out to loot for food and nappies, but could not compute the scale of looting for white goods, and the damage caused by people on their own doorsteps to their own communities.
When its crew were massacred by the local population, the Rus' went on to loot the city of Maskat.
He added, "I'm pretty sure you're not going to see people here looting stores or lying down in the streets".
David L. Hall, an assistant United States attorney in Delaware who has handled many cultural heritage claims, said going abroad to looted sites had helped him win tough cases.
