The FBI is facing backlash after a social media post warning of organized retail theft included an image of white women.
The FBI warned high prices were a byproduct of mass-scale retail theft in an X post Monday, however social media users noticed the stock image of two white female shoplifters chosen by the Bureau to represent retail thieves didn’t align with reality.
“Higher prices, dangerous products, and closing businesses. These are just some of the impacts Organized Retail Theft has on everyday Americans,” the FBI’s post stated, with a thumbnail showing a young white woman shoving a purse into her jacket.
Higher prices, dangerous products, and closing businesses. These are just some of the impacts Organized Retail Theft has on everyday Americans. Learn what the #FBI does to combat these crimes on the federal level to protect shoppers across the country: https://t.co/f0I2gcN9gu pic.twitter.com/d4fMwRuxry
— FBI (@FBI) February 26, 2024
On its website, the FBI also included an image of a white man swiping a retail product.
The FBI explains “smash and grabs” and “flash mobs” contribute to the problem, however numerous social media users dunked on the federal agency for refusing to correctly identify the group of people that typically commit those crimes.
Yes, it’s always White women in Burberry in literally every video of retail theft we’ve all seen with our own eyes…
— David Santa Carla ? (@TheOnlyDSC) February 27, 2024
Yeah, nice picture of the suspects FBI. That’s just who is doing it.
I guess all those movies and TV shows about super-smart FBI profilers unveiling the people behind crimes exaggerated a little bit.
— James Kirkpatrick (@VDAREJamesK) February 26, 2024
— Benjamin?Boyce (@BenjaminABoyce) February 26, 2024
Guys there just weren’t any photos of the actual lootings to choose from trust me. pic.twitter.com/CIgFCJD61n
— Tony Kinnett (@TheTonus) February 26, 2024
These girls are the reason the frozen pizzas are locked up at my local Walgreens https://t.co/RqQt1ldsFr
— Danny Polishchuk (@Dannyjokes) February 26, 2024
I’m not trying to be racist but if Google can’t find a picture or video of a group of teenage White girls looting stores, Why TF is the FBI using it as a visual?https://t.co/UTBM03z7ia
— Barton Bella (@BartonBella1) February 26, 2024
Damn White Supremacist!!! pic.twitter.com/xMLmwdMXPg
— ?? Pismo ?? (@Pismo_B) February 26, 2024
I can see why you didn’t go with a picture from the thousands of CCTV videos of the mass-lootings.
— U.S. Ministry of Truth (@USMiniTru) February 26, 2024
But why aren’t they wearing MAGA hats? I’m pretty sure those are the ones doing all the shoplifting.
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 26, 2024
The actual looters, rather than those women you choose to inappropriately depict to be politically correct, don’t even bother to hide their loot. They steal out in the open confident that no one will try to stop them and that there’ll be no legal consequences for their crimes.
— Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) February 27, 2024
Many also rejoiced over the return of white people to advertising, yet expressed dissatisfaction with the manner in which they were portrayed.
It’s interesting when they choose to use white people in images again ? https://t.co/RkjsGqIh4F
— Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) February 27, 2024
White people are finally back in advertising! https://t.co/9hUDuvUqpw
— Scott Greer 6’2” IQ 187 (@ScottMGreer) February 27, 2024
See white people have representation in media
They can be the criminals in ADT commercials OR FBI propaganda https://t.co/t8qhtWEEd1
— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) February 27, 2024
The Bureau’s inversion of reality is just the latest example of why so many Americans view the federal agency as a joke.
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