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[CtizenFreePress] More of the kind of thing we saw yesterday. Tweets can be seen at the link.

Courtesy of Skidmark, the Daily Mail has the usual photos, adding:
  • More than 100 people descended on the convenience store in Los Angeles, California, on August 15, after blocking the roads

  • They ransacked the store while shouting at each other, with surveillance footage capturing them throwing items across the counter

  • One member of staff said that he feared for his life, and put up 'no resistance' to the looters according to the police

  • LAPD are appealing for anyone with information about the incident to come forward, claiming that those involved had also been driving 'recklessly' before the incident
LAPD Det. Ryan Moreno said that there was 'no resistance' and 'no fight put up' by the staff members working that day.

He added: 'We really want to prevent this from becoming a new trend.'

Those involved face charges of vandalism, grand theft and looting when they are apprehended by authorities.

Before the store incident, the crowd held a street takeover nearby and blocked traffic with their vehicles and performed 'donuts.'

Another street takeover, just an hour later and less than two miles down the road saw a teenage boy shot dead.

The brazen incident comes after Proposition 47 was passed in California in 2014, meaning that some property theft was reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor.

The law, aimed at complying with a California Supreme Court order to reduce prison overcrowding, raised the threshold for felony theft to $950 from $400.

Two or more people who conspire to 'cheat and defraud any person or any property, by any means which are in themselves criminal' can face only one year in a county prison, a fine of $10k or a combination of th two.

Soft-on-crime progressive District Attorney George Gascón has been slammed for his policies which other politicians claim ‘weaken’ their laws.

LAPD data shows that as of March 2022 robberies had skyrocketed in Los Angeles by a staggering 17.2% from the same period of time in 2021.

Fed-up California assemblyman Rudy Salas, a Democrat, introduced a bill that would lower the amount a suspect can steal before facing a felony to $400, which was the original threshold before Proposition 47 passed.

Salas said: 'Enough is enough, we need to fight back against the criminals who are stealing from our communities.

'We have seen the unintended consequences of Prop 47’s weakening of our theft laws and I believe California voters are ready to make their voices heard on this issue again.'

The wild street takeovers have become more of an issue in recent months, with locals in LA begging police to do something about the problem.
Posted by: NoMoreBS 2022-08-20
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