Looters left the road of destruction in Manhattan on Monday morning – with several people bravely continuing the crime in Soho an hour after dawn.
At 6:45 in the morning, a man in a seemingly empty backpack was found by a Post reporter who infiltrated Celine on Wooster Street through a broken glass window, as his three friends waited outside.
“Is there anything left?” said the man before heading inside.
After a few minutes, he escaped on foot from a high-end clothing store after filling his bag. His friends followed behind him.
Witnesses said at least one other person was seen crouching into Celine and leaving with a shopping bag in hand.
Dozens of suspected looters were arrested in Soho on Sunday night in protest at the death of George Floyd, which involved police raging in the city. Twelve people were caught outside Nike Soho on Broadway, while other high-end shops such as Coach, Chanel and Barbour were also targeted.
Storefronts in the neighborhood were destroyed and empty boxes and other rubbish littered the sidewalk Monday morning.
The window of Chanel’s shop on Spring Street was broken and looked bloodied, with Chanel shoes scattered in front. A similar scene is seen outside the British outer clothing company Barbour on Wooster Street.
In front of Barbour, which also has a broken windshield, a man is seen taking a lost shirt from the sidewalk.
Many of the shops had come to the front of the shops before the chaos on Sunday night – but they appeared to have been damaged by looters.
Violent protests have taken place throughout the Big Apple and the country for the past four nights after the May 25 death of Floyd, who is black, in Minneapolis at the hands of white police officer Derek Chauvin.
