In the wake of the devastation we’ve seen the courage of the heroes, unlike the looters and the…

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1 min readSep 12, 2017

News cameras caught nine looters during Hurricane Irma. The suspects were arrested within hours.

They'd been warned. Repeatedly. As Hurricane Irma barreled toward Florida last week, police in the coastal city of Fort…

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