Black Lives Matter Group Investigated After Arson at Alabama Walmart
By Rick McCann
Blue RAM Media/Gulf Coast News
August 26, 2025
HOMEWOOD Ala. The Homewood Police Department is investigating an arson on Friday at a local Walmart store that may have been set by a member of the Black Lives Matter group that has been protesting nearby for weeks after an armed person was shot and killed by police.
Friday afternoon, the Homewood Police Department arrested six protestors at a Black Lives Matter protest. Approximately 45 minutes after those arrests and further protesting, someone “affiliated” with the group is believed to have started a fire in an occupied Homewood Walmart.
According to the Homewood Police Department, “An individual apparently started a fire inside the store intentionally by setting items in a shopping cart on fire.”
Police said that the fire alarm system was triggered, and the store was evacuated, and the fire was quickly extinguished by responding Homewood firefighters.
The BLM group had announced earlier a boycott of the same store, saying that black and brown people should stop shopping there because of the police shooting.
The group has protested at several local businesses, disrupting shoppers and causing disorder.
The Homewood police continue to make sporadic arrests as needed during the continual protests.
Homewood police reported that there were no injuries at the Walmart fire and that no arrests have been made thus far.
However, Police Detectives are working with Walmart to obtain surveillance video and identify the suspect.”
The protests and attempts at disturbing the peace and the arson are all in response to police officers shooting Jabari Peoples, who had a gun in his hand at the time of the shooting.
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