Looters made off with $550,000 in gear from SoHo camera store during George Floyd protests: police

After a burglar smashed a window at a Soho camera shop, 25 more looters joined in on the theft and made off with $550,000 in total gear, police said. Authorities released several images showing some of the suspected crooks. (NYPD)

Around two dozen looters broke into a high-end SoHo camera shop and made off with $550,000 in equipment and gear, as protesters marched through the streets against George Floyd’s death, authorities said Thursday.

The first burglar smashed open the front door with heavy object and stole some camera equipment from the Leica store on W. Broadway near W. Houston St. before riding off on a CitiBike on May 31 around 10:15 p.m.

Shortly after, around 20 to 25 looters flooded the store and robbed the place of camera gear, checks and computers worth more than half a million dollars, police said.

This image shows the burglar who cops believe first smashed the store's window. (NYPD)

The NYPD on Thursday released surveillance photos of the looters and a short video of the initial thief taking off on the CitiBike.

No arrests have been made.

Anyone with information can call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at (800) 577-TIPS. Calls are confidential.