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From: bleachbitch@clintonemail.com
On 29 Aug 2023, Leonoid Shukin posted some
news:ucm6o6$2j2cd$3@dont-email.me:
> The only way to stop this is shoot the criminals. As soon as they
> walk to the door, blow their heads off. Jewelry can be cleaned.
Three masked men armed with hammers stole $500,000 in gems from a
California jewelry store and pepper-sprayed the terrified owner in yet
another “smash-and-grab” robbery.
Sam Babikian, owner of Jewels on Lake in Pasadena, Calif., told local
station KTLA the unidentified men walked in around 1:45 p.m. on Tuesday
and ransacked his shop.
“As soon as I opened the door, I got pepper sprayed right in my eye, my
throat, my mouth,” he told the TV outlet.
“I couldn’t see anything. Then [all] I could hear was smashing and
grabbing.”
The crew smashed through the store’s thick display glass and walked out
with almost all the jewelry — worth about $500,000.
Babikian said he was able to eventually hit a hidden “panic button” that
summoned police to the shop.
He said during the melee he thought, “I hope nobody pulls a pistol and
shoots around.”
The crooks took almost every piece of jewelry from Babikian’s store in
just three minutes.
“I feel confused,” Babikian told local TV station NBC4.
“I work so hard for this, all of my life… I’m concerned about my safety.
This is going on a lot. Hopefully, I will be the last one. That is my
prayer.”
Tuesday’s theft was just another in a long list of “flash mobs”
terrorizing shoppers and businesses across Southern California.
Startling video from the Macy’s at the Westfield Fashion Square in
Sherman Oaks showed nine thieves — described in their early 20s —
ransacking shelves in less than two minutes on Aug. 24.
About two weeks before that, a brazen mob got away with thousands of
dollars worth of items at a Nordstrom Rack in Riverside, Calif., which
has been hit by robbers once before.
Brazen thieves also ransacked a Nike store in East Los Angeles on Aug.
13 and got away with trash bags full of merchandise.
A day earlier, another flash mob with more than 30 people hit the
Nordstroms at the Westfield Topanga Shopping Center and got away with
over $300,000 worth of merchandise.
“The suspects ran from the store, ransacking shelves and display tables
in the process,” Los Angeles Police Department officials said in a
release.
“The suspects were wearing ski masks and fled with high-end handbags,
clothing and other easily re-sellable items.”
“One suspect, upon entering the store, sprayed bear spray on the face
and body of the security guard at the entrance to the store.”
Earlier this month, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass along with LAPD
officials, announced the formation of a task force with 22 full-time
investigators focused on the recent wave flash mob robberies.
The task force has made some arrests, including 11 people who were
involved in Nordstrom’s Westfield Topanga Shopping Center incident.
“Many of these retail theft cases have adopted linkage to other retail
crimes which occurred in neighboring cities,” LAPD officials said.
LTC Frank Slade
2 hours ago
If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the citizens who can do it.
The criminal does not fear the police, and they fear neither judge nor
jury. Therefore, what the criminal must be taught to fear, is the
citizens.
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-500k-in-jewelry-from-california-shop-pepper-spray-terrified-owner/
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