When the looting starts, the shooting starts.是佛罗里达州迈阿密警察局局长沃尔特·E·海德利最初使用的一句话，用于回应 1967 年圣诞节期间爆发的暴力犯罪。他指责“15 至 21 岁的年轻流氓”利用当时席卷美国的“民权运动”。他命令他的警员用猎枪打击暴力行为，并告诉媒体“我们不介意被指控警察暴力”。
When the looting starts, the shooting starts" is a phrase originally used by Walter E. Headley, the police chief of Miami, Florida, in response to an outbreak of violent crime during the 1967 Christmas holiday season. He accused "young hoodlums, from 15 to 21", of taking "advantage of the civil rights campaign" that was then sweeping the United States. Having ordered his officers to combat the violence with shotguns, he told the press that "we don't mind being accused of police brutality". Chief Headley's justifications of deadly force against rioters were echoed by other nationally prominent politicians, including presidential candidate George Wallace (in 1967/68), Philadelphia police commissioner Frank Rizzo (1968), and Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley (1968). In the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina (2005), Ike (2008), Sandy (2012), and Harvey (2017),would-be robbers were warned that vigilante deadly force would be used for property crimes through hand-painted signs that read "you loot, we shoot". 2020, in response to George Floyd protests, President Donald Trump used the phrase in a tweet on the evening of May 28–29, 2020, in response to increasingly violent nation-wide and international protests in response to the murder of George Floyd. In the aftermath of Trump's tweet, Lori Lightfoot and Keisha Lance Bottoms, the then-mayors of Chicago and Atlanta respectively, both stated that Trump was giving a dog whistle to what they considered his racist base, authorizing the use of vigilante violence to quell rioting.
这两年，多伦多的两个华人珠宝店都被匪徒抢劫成笑话了，在购物中心里连续被打劫。两三年内，分别被抢了两三次，12月份，两三周内分别被抢劫一次，都是在正常的上班时间，人来人往
When the looting starts, the shooting starts.是佛罗里达州迈阿密警察局局长沃尔特·E·海德利最初使用的一句话，用于回应 1967 年圣诞节期间爆发的暴力犯罪。他指责“15 至 21 岁的年轻流氓”利用当时席卷美国的“民权运动”。他命令他的警员用猎枪打击暴力行为，并告诉媒体“我们不介意被指控警察暴力”。
海德利局长对使用致命武力对付暴徒的辩护得到了其他全国知名政治家的呼应，包括总统候选人乔治·华莱士（1967/68 年）、费城警察局局长弗兰克·里佐（1968 年）和芝加哥市长理查德·J·戴利（1968 年）。 在飓风卡特里娜（2005 年）、艾克（2008 年）、桑迪（2012 年）和哈维之后(2017)，警方通过手绘标语警告潜在的抢劫者，私刑将用于财产犯罪，标语上写着“你抢劫，我们就开枪”。
2020 年，为了回应乔治·弗洛伊德的抗议活动，唐纳德·特朗普总统在 2020 年 5 月 28 日至 29 日晚上的一条推文中使用了这句话，以回应因乔治·弗洛伊德被杀而引发的全国和国际抗议活动日益激烈的抗议活动。
在特朗普发推文后，当时的芝加哥和亚特兰大市长洛里·莱特福特和凯莎·兰斯·博顿斯都表示，特朗普是在向他们认为是他的种族主义基础发出警告，授权使用私刑暴力来平息骚乱。
When the looting starts, the shooting starts" is a phrase originally used by Walter E. Headley, the police chief of Miami, Florida, in response to an outbreak of violent crime during the 1967 Christmas holiday season. He accused "young hoodlums, from 15 to 21", of taking "advantage of the civil rights campaign" that was then sweeping the United States. Having ordered his officers to combat the violence with shotguns, he told the press that "we don't mind being accused of police brutality". Chief Headley's justifications of deadly force against rioters were echoed by other nationally prominent politicians, including presidential candidate George Wallace (in 1967/68), Philadelphia police commissioner Frank Rizzo (1968), and Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley (1968). In the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina (2005), Ike (2008), Sandy (2012), and Harvey (2017),would-be robbers were warned that vigilante deadly force would be used for property crimes through hand-painted signs that read "you loot, we shoot". 2020, in response to George Floyd protests, President Donald Trump used the phrase in a tweet on the evening of May 28–29, 2020, in response to increasingly violent nation-wide and international protests in response to the murder of George Floyd. In the aftermath of Trump's tweet, Lori Lightfoot and Keisha Lance Bottoms, the then-mayors of Chicago and Atlanta respectively, both stated that Trump was giving a dog whistle to what they considered his racist base, authorizing the use of vigilante violence to quell rioting.