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   Flash mobs terrorizing California retailers hit a Los Angeles Macy’s store   
   in the latest string of smash-and-grab robberies caught on film.   
      
   Startling video from inside the Sherman Oaks department store shows a   
   group of masked thieves in hooded sweatshirts filling their bags with   
   merchandise shortly after 12:30 p.m. Thursday.   
      
   Shoppers are seen standing by in shock as the thieves — described as being   
   in their early 20s — cleared out shelves before running away together,   
   dropping some of the stolen merch on the ground.   
      
   The group fled from the Westfield Fashion Square shopping center in two   
   cars — a silver or gold Honda and a black Ford Fusion, ABC 7 reported.   
      
   The brazen daylight heist occurred the same day Southern California law   
   enforcement agencies united to form a retail crime task force to curb such   
   incidents.   
      
   The new task force is composed of the LA Police Department, the LA County   
   Sheriff’s Department, along with the US Marshals Apprehension Task Force   
   and the Federal Bureau of Investigation Apprehension Task Force.   
      
   The effort features 22 full-time investigators solely devoted to taking   
   down organized retail crime in the area.   
      
   “What we’ve seen over just the past week in the City of Los Angeles and in   
   surrounding regions is unacceptable, which is why today we are here   
   announcing action,” Mayor Karen Bass said in a statement last week about   
   the task force.   
      
   “These are not victimless crimes — especially in the case where Angelenos   
   were attacked — through force or fear– as they did their jobs or ran   
   errands.”   
      
   Thursday’s smash-and-grab came after a larger raid at a Nordstrom in   
   Canoga Park on Aug. 12, when more than 30 masked robbers made off with   
   over $300,000 worth of goods.   
      
   The incident also resulted in one of the suspects using bear spray against   
   a security guard who responded to the theft, the LAPD said.   
      
   The retail crime task force has since arrested 11 individuals allegedly   
   connected to the Nordstrom robbery, and four other incidents.   
      
   Shanghailou   
   1 hour ago   
      
   To set a example Leave armed security, and use it to stop the thief or   
   else no major store will be left, eventually they will lose to much money   
   and won’t pay to stay opened Security must use deadly force you’d see how   
   fast the will stop.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2023/08/27/mob-of-masked-thieves-clear-out-shelves-at-   
   la-macys-as-stunned-shoppers-look-on/   
      
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