The New York Times has admitted that the Black Lives Matter looting in cities such as Minneapolis, along with soft-on-crime policies, is responsible for the widespread organized robberies that businesses are seeing across the country.

Reporters Michael Corkery and Sapna Maheshwari wrote for The New York Times that some of the recent high-profile robberies “recall the looting that occurred across the country amid protests after the murder of George Floyd in May 2020,” which they noted caused “millions of dollars in damage.”