Officials in Buffalo confirmed that looters targeted stores during a major winter snow that caused widespread havoc across the city over the past weekend.
“Our officers have responded to several reports” of looting, Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said Monday. “We have made a few arrests, we have intervened in some of those. We have assisted at least one location that I’m aware of in getting a store boarded up.”
Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown told reporters that evidence seen on social media indicates looters aren’t taking essential items.
“People who are out looting when people are losing their lives in this harsh winter storm is just absolutely reprehensible,” Brown told reporters. “I don’t know how these people can even live with themselves, how they can look at themselves in the mirror. They are the lowest of the low.”…