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by Gerald Flores
Protests in Baltimore, MD. turned violent on Monday, as riots broke out throughout the city following the funeral of Freddie Gray—a 25-year-old man who died of an unexplained injury while under police custody.
Many areas in the city were impacted by the widespread looting and violence, which included a massive fire to a building that was under construction and a CVS pharmacy that was also set on fire earlier in the day. Sneaker stores, including two of the Baltimore area's biggest sneaker chains — Shoe City and DTLR — weren't immune to the chaos. Users have taken to Twitter to post images from the Baltimore riots, some depicting the sneaker stores affected by looting.
#DTLR Mondawmin Location. Pray for the City of Baltimore. #Community #GiveBack #Peace #FreddieGray pic.twitter.com/QCqtwWJjfi
— DTLR (@DTLR) April 28, 2015
New pics of what remains at the Rite Aid and DTLR shoe stores at the center of the #BaltimoreRiots last night pic.twitter.com/YFzwKO5EeT
— HLN (@HLNTV) April 28, 2015
VIDEO- police with guns drawn quickly responding to looting at DTLR shoe store just now #BaltimoreRiots pic.twitter.com/OCuDGrY5Ba
— Peter Doocy (@pdoocy) April 28, 2015
Cops digging through empty car, retrieving sneaker boxes from Shoe City (looted thirty minutes ago) #baltimoreriots pic.twitter.com/LoL8KGySSC
— nash jenkins (@pnashjenkins) April 28, 2015
Omg the robbed the DTLR pic.twitter.com/BcM205AbCP
— June13th???? (@_waynelee__) April 27, 2015
DTLR show store is being looted now. Police on scene. #BaltimoreProtest #BaltimoreRiots pic.twitter.com/ZOoqpY4JBi
— Michelle Macaluso (@Michelle_Mac1) April 28, 2015
Looted shoe store in East Baltimore. #BaltimoreRiots pic.twitter.com/rSUrwpP6PV
— Lowell Melser (@MelserWBAL) April 28, 2015
More looted shoe store. #BaltimoreRiots pic.twitter.com/7GKForzMzf
— Lowell Melser (@MelserWBAL) April 28, 2015
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Woman outside of this looted Shoe City in West Baltimore: "These were on the ground. I just picked them up." pic.twitter.com/4rJQbCCFo7
— Lynh Bui (@ByLynhBui) April 28, 2015
