PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Police released another round of surveillance video from stores that were targeted in September in a wave of citywide looting and burglary. Police are asking for the public’s help as they continue to work to identify suspects, and they hope the three newly released clips will lead to more arrests.
City and police officials said at the time that groups of opportunists used a peaceful protest of a Sept. 26 Municipal Court decision to dismiss charges against former police officer Mark Dial in the fatal August shooting of Eddie Irizarry as an excuse to target businesses in neighborhoods all across the city.
Each newly released video shows a separate store that was ransacked.
Video from around 10 p.m. on Sept. 26 shows a group of people pouring in around the gated entrance of a GameStop on Castor Avenue in Port Richmond. They appear to take merchandise from off the walls and behind the counter.
VIDEO: GameStop
A second video from a few hours later, around 1:45 a.m. on Sept. 27, shows a small silver car that was used to crash twice into the front door of a Curaleaf medical marijuana dispensary on City Avenue in the Wynnefield neighborhood of the city. Several people were caught on camera running inside through the broken down entrance.
VIDEO: Curaleaf
Around the same time, in Northeast Philadelphia, video shows another group of people breaking into a Marshall’s on Roosevelt Boulevard.
VIDEO: Marshall's
Police haven’t released any details about what was stolen from the locations or its value.