Actress and Black Lives Matter supporter Julia Roberts has suddenly discovered a disdain for looters after her posh neighborhood in Santa Monica was burned to a crisp in a wildfire this past week, leaving the remains of celebs’ homes open to thieves picking over the abandoned carcass of Malibu.
“F.U. looters,” Roberts wrote on social media Monday, in response to news that criminals are now targeting vacant multi-million-dollar mansions left empty after their owners - many of them wealthy celebrities like Roberts and her cinematographer husband - were forced to evacuate due to the surrounding fires. Roberts owns two Malibu properties, including her own home purchased for $6.4 million in 2003, and another property she bought for $4 million located nearby.
At least 30 people have already been arrested on suspicion of looting, even as Governor Gavin Newsom, who has largely been soft on crime and who has signed legislation downgrading penalties for thieves, claims that looting won’t be tolerated.
Assuming there are any cops left capable of apprehending criminals, or any DAs wiling to prosecute them.
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Hilariously, Julia Roberts was in total support of Black Lives Matter back in 2020. In fact, on the same day a BLM mob rioted in Washington, D.C., forcing then-President Donald Trump and his family to have to relocate to a bunker for safety, Roberts posted a lengthy diatribe on Instagram in support for the group.
Black Lives Matter then spent the next six months burning and looting their way through dozens of major cities across the United States, while their leaders called the mass theft “reparations” that were “owed” to Black Americans for slavery.
The arson, vandalism, and looting that took place between May 26 and June 8 of 2020 alone caused as much as $2 billion in insured damages nationally, the highest recorded cost from civil disorder in U.S. history, according to Axios.
But it wasn’t Roberts’ home that was getting smashed in and gutted, so I suppose it didn’t matter - until thieves showed up at her gated mansion.