Philadelphia looter Dayjia Blackwell is arrested on digital camera simply 4 hours after laughing as mob of 100 robbed Apple, Lululemon, Footlocker and a liquor retailer: That’ll wipe the smile off her face!

At 9pm, Dayjia Blackwell was filled with mischief as she informed her 181,000 Instagram followers to collect on Walnut Avenue in downtown Philadelphia. 

By 10pm, she was excitedly filming a mob as they looted Apple, Lululemon and Footlocker, earlier than shifting on to a liquor retailer the place she herself boasted of grabbing a bottle of Hennessy. 

‘Inform the police in the event that they lock me up tonight it’s going to be lit, it’s going to be a film! Everyone’s gotta eat!’ she stated confidently into the digital camera. 

It was a fast thud again to actuality for Blackwell when police arrested her in her good friend’s automobile just a little after midnight. 

Dayjia Blackwell confidently livestreamed the crime spree in downtown Philadelphia final evening, blissfully unaware that simply 4 hours later it might land her in handcuffs

One of many shops looted was a liquor and wine retailer. Dayjia boosted a bottle of Hennessy 

Nonetheless filming herself and the evening’s occasions on an Instagram stay stream, she tried to speak her manner out of it. 

‘We did not have something to do with this!’ she protested, clearly forgetting in regards to the hours of footage she’d so keenly put collectively and overtly shared. 

Blackwell is simply one of many 20-odd looters who had been taken into custody final evening following the surprising assault on the town. 

Unwell-planned and fruitless – the thieves ended up destroying the stolen Apple items  they stole as soon as they realized they had been being tracked – police say it was an ‘opportunistic’ crime of epic proportions. 

Blackwell was within the thick of it, sharing incriminating footage of her mates as they piled into the shops of their dozens to steal. 

The looters tried vaguely to attach their crimes to the sooner Black Lives Matter demonstrations being held within the metropolis. 

On her Instagram account, Dayjia stated she was able to ‘struggle the injustice’.  

The sooner, reputable protests had been organized in response to the dismissal of all expenses in opposition to police officer Mark Dial, who shot and killed armed black driver Eddie Irizarry on August 14. 

Irizarry was armed with a knife which Dial’s attorneys and his companions say he mistook for a gun. 

Dial, the cop, shot him by way of a rolled-up window.

The decide agreed together with his protection and threw out the case, to the horror of Irizarry’s household.  

Enjoyable’s over: By midnight, the police had caught up with Dayjia and her mates of their automobile. She tried to insist that they’d ‘nothing to do with it’

Dayjia was put in handcuffs in entrance of her mates, who remained within the automobile. She had much less to say as she was taken away by cops 

Solely herself responsible: The teen could possibly be seen attempting to inform police she wasn’t concerned

ABC reported that police had detained people ranged from youngsters to younger adults, and recovered one weapon.  

DailyMail.com has approached the Philadelphia Police Division for touch upon the scenario. 

Simply three weeks in the past, the Philadelphia Police Commissioner resigned from her publish because the Democratic run metropolis handled a wave of homicides and lawlessness. 

Danielle Outlaw, 48, who has been Philly’s prime cop since February 2020, formally left the division on September 22. 

Outlaw’s new position would be the Deputy Chief Safety Officer on the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the place she’s going to oversee the airports, bridges, tunnels and different transportation infrastructure within the New York Metropolis space.

Twenty individuals have been arrested after widespread looting broke out in Philadelphia final evening, with one lady who livestreamed the chaos 

Earlier than she took workplace, Philadelphia noticed lower than 400 homicides every year since 2007. Each 2021 and 2022 have seen greater than 500 homicides across the city.

One other shot of looters exterior the Lululemon retailer exhibits a lot of thieves making their escape, as stragglers are pinned down by officers

Numerous individuals might be seen operating in direction of the Lululemon retailer on this image through the spree

Newest figures, that are up till final Sunday, present how there was 302 homicides within the metropolis up to now this 12 months. 

There has additionally been 402 reported rapes, 58,759 instances of property crime, 3,701 instances of aggravated assaults and 1,314 taking pictures victims. 

As crime has soared throughout Philadelphia, it has come as homelessness and drug use on the road have turn out to be extra prevalent.

Homeless individuals and drug addicts are sometimes pushed to petty theft as a technique to discover methods to maintain themselves or scrape sufficient cash collectively to provide their addictions.

Photos shared on social media present a big group storming the Apple retailer within the metropolis, raiding it within the course of