Video Shows Black People Helping — Not Looting — During LA Wildfires
Video Shows Black People Helping — Not Looting — During LA Wildfires

Online users falsely alleged a video of Black family members and friends moving items from a home during the January 2025 fires suggested looting.

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A live broadcast from KTLA reporter Chip Yost on Jan. 8 confirmed this rumor was false and that the video users shared on X did not show looters. Yost's report documented the same people pictured in the clip on X, identifying them as a group of family members and their friends who banded together to remove items from partially burned home occupied a woman, her three children, dogs and other animals. [...]
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