The intimidating posts have been appearing all over Twitter (Picture: Twitter)

Gang members are boasting about looting homes as thousands are rescued from floods after Hurricane Harvey battered Texas.

Unverified Twitter accounts and hashtags like ‘harveylootcrew’ show men brandishing guns in posts about breaking into Houston houses and stealing goods.

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One account shows a man wearing a bandanna with someone pointing two handguns at the camera. It’s captioned: ‘We out here lootin shit from white neighborhoods.’

Another post included a photo of a gun stuffed into his pants pocket and the comment: ‘I stay strapped when we out here lootin this bitch.’


Photos and videos on this particular account have since been deleted. The authenticity of these accounts are not known.

The account boasts about looting venues across Texas (Picture: Twitter)

One photo shows a handgun in the pants of an alleged looter (Picture: Twitter)

A still from a video posted to the account shows a man holding a gun while sitting in the passenger seat of a car (Picture: Twitter)

And in the same footage, a weapon is seen on the lap of another man (Picture: Twitter)

Many people on Twitter are reporting them by looping in the Houston Police Department in the gang’s tweets.



A spokeswoman for Houston Police Department told Metro US officers are aware of four cases of looting that have taken place since Hurricane Harvey hit, and arrests have been made in each of those cases.

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However, she said she could not speak to the Twitter accounts and hashtags which appear to show gangs making claims of looting.

At least six people have died in the chaos since Hurricane Harvey struck landfall on Friday.

Parts of Texas are bracing for up to 25 more inches of rain as Hurricane Harvey continues to batter the area.

People push a stalled pickup through a flooded street in Houston (Picture: AP)

Alexendre Jorge evacuates Ethan Colman, four, from a neighborhood severely affected (Picture: AP)

A firefighter is wheeled to a waiting ambulance after he became fatigued while fighting an office building fire in downtown in Houston (Picture: AP Photo/LM Otero)

Dennis Feltgen, meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center, has warned of more ‘catastrophic and life-threatening’ flooding.

Thousands of people have been drafted in to help rescue those stranded in flood water.

Houston Police Department said it would like to thank all the additional resources it has received from neighboring authorities.