Where does the phrase 'When the looting starts, the shooting starts' come from?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON — Twitter said early Friday that a post by President Donald Trump about the protests overnight in Minneapolis glorified violence because of the historical context of his last line: "When the looting starts, the shooting starts."

The phrase was used by Miami's police chief, Walter Headley, in 1967, when he addressed his department's "crackdown on ... slum hoodlums," according to a United Press International article from the time.

Headley, who was chief of police in Miami for 20 years, said that law enforcement was going after “young hoodlums, from 15 to 21, who have taken advantage of the civil rights campaign. ... We don't mind being accused of police brutality."

Miami hadn't faced "racial disturbances and looting," Headley added, because he let word filter down that "when the looting starts, the shooting starts."

The phrase was considered to have contributed to the city's race riots in the late 1960s, according to The Washington Post.

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[Budi]

1. YES. Glad to see this in headlines. I pulled it from Rick Wilson's full twitter page this morning

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213501712

Link to tweet

Rick Wilson
@TheRickWilson
2/ Nixon went full-on "law and order" not only as a signifier about African Americans but also about the hippy proto-Bernie Bros in Chicago.

Ailes knew a secret; "law and order" was a code for race *and* for culture anxiety in 1968. The Ailes campaign DNA is wired...

Wilson's twitter thread digs much deeper. Read on.~


Nixon's playbook is all the GOP has ever known.
They still use it today.