cropping up on social media this week<\/a> after the US Department of Agriculture announced that November food stamp payments would not be made to some 42 million Americans due to the federal government shutdown \u2014 which at 29 days and counting is already the second-longest in US history.<\/p>\nThe news has incensed many recipients of the 60-year-old Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, some of whom are threatening to take matters into their own hands with a lawless national protest, the source said.<\/p>\n
As the benefits pause looms, postings on TikTok and Facebook have cropped up encouraging people to coordinate in a rash of mass thefts.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the end of the day they\u2019re trying to see if we\u2019re gonna stick together, and we are gonna stick together. F\u2013king November third at 6:30 we\u2019re going to Walmart. We\u2019re going to f\u2013king Walmart, and at 7:30 we\u2019re going to walk out of Walmart with our f\u2013king buggies,\u201d TikTok user hersheyykissess1 said in a video post.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe thing is, they can\u2019t catch everybody. All you gotta do is run, Forrest, run, ok?\u201d<\/p>\n
The video drew hundreds of comments, many of which mocked the entitled attempt at inspiring vigilanteism.<\/p>\n
Similar threats also targeted local grocery chain Food Bazaar.<\/p>\n
Cops are warning that despite the online threat naming Walmart specifically, other grocery and retail stores are being advised to \u201cremain extra vigilant for theft\u201d next week, according to sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walmart and grocery stores across the New York area are being threatened with mass looting after SNAP benefits…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9235,2564,57,9,56,63,65,64,58,14599],"class_list":{"0":"post-21843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-food-stamps","9":"tag-government-shutdown","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-us-news","17":"tag-walmart"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}