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   From: shitbags@barackobama.com   
      
   ‘Highly organized’ mob of 80 armed looters storm San Fran   
   Nordstrom’s during ‘insane’ robbery   
      
   A shocking incident occurred just outside San Francisco   
   involving dozens of robbers converging on a Nordstrom shortly   
   before closing time on Saturday.   
      
   The incredibly brazen acts of looting allegedly involved no less   
   than 80 individuals, according to the Walnut Creek Police   
   Department. Wearing ski masks and carrying weapons ranging from   
   crowbars to firearms, they reportedly invaded the Broadway Plaza   
   Nordstrom department store in Walnut Creek, which is   
   approximately 25 miles outside of San Francisco.   
      
   There appeared to be a highly organized nature to the robbers,   
   and the plan was well executed, beginning with 25 cars stopped   
   and blocked traffic outside of the store as the main group   
   poured out of the vehicles and set upon the store, getting in   
   and out in a matter of minutes.   
      
   During the rapid heist, two employees were allegedly assaulted,   
   and one was pepper-sprayed. While details of any injuries are   
   not public at time of writing, the employees were treated at the   
   scene and there are no reports of any hospitalizations or deaths   
   in connection to the mass robbery.   
      
   A statement given by the Walnut Creek Police Department (WCPD)   
   stated that they had arrested three people in connection to the   
   robbery, two on the scene and one shortly after when they   
   responded to multiple, frantic 911 calls from Nordstrom   
   employees. The other individuals have eluded justice at the time   
   of writing, though the WCPD says it has not yet finished   
   reviewing security footage. One of the individuals, an   
   unidentified woman, was charged with illegal possession of a   
   firearm, and all three are facing charges of possession of   
   burglary tools, possession of stolen property, and conspiracy to   
   commit burglary, according to the WCPD statement.   
      
   The total amount of property stolen remains unknown, but given   
   the sheer number of thieves, and their direct route to the most   
   expensive goods, the total value of all the stolen goods is   
   presumed to be high.   
      
   Some bystanders at the nearby P.F. Chang restaurant watched the   
   episode, and the restaurant manager, Brett Barrette, who wisely   
   locked the doors as the shocked diners looked on, went on to   
   describe the incident as something like “a scene out of a movie.”   
      
   “We probably saw 50 to 80 people in ski masks, crowbars, a bunch   
   of weapons. They were looting the Nordstrom’s right here. And I   
   thought they were going to start beating cars. I had to start   
   locking doors, lock the front door, lock the back door. There   
   was a mob of people. The police were flying in. It was like a   
   scene out of a movie. It was insane,” Barrette told KGO-TV.   
      
   This isn’t the first time the “flash mob” of criminals has   
   suddenly descended upon a store and then fled within minutes.   
   Looters raided the Louis Vuitton store in Union Square, San   
   Francisco following on the heels of a Wednesday raid on Louis   
   Vuitton in Chicago’s Oakbrook suburb. Union Square was also host   
   to a raid on the Neiman Marcus store in July.   
      
   There is speculation that the mass robberies, standing out for   
   their sheer brazenness, may be encouraged by policies such as   
   Proposition 47, passed by California voters in 2014, which makes   
   shoplifting of less than $950 of goods a misdemeanor. This means   
   that some thieves may not even face any real attempt to arrest   
   them, especially in light of the blatant denial of the problem   
   itself by officials in places like San Francisco, in shock   
   contrast to the experience many common people and retailers both   
   great and small have of the surge in theft of all types.   
      
   The “nothing is wrong” approach may not be sitting well with the   
   people actually experiencing sudden mass raids by armed, masked   
   thugs. Some in San Francisco are calling for the removal of the   
   woke regime.   
      
   “The mayor and her entire team should resign. You can’t really   
   run a retail enterprise if you have to board up the windows five   
   weeks before the critical Christmas selling season,” John   
   Chachas, whose family owns luxury retailer Gump’s in Union   
   Square, told the San Francisco Chronicle.   
      
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