Posted on 12/06/2021 7:58:40 AM PST by Rummyfan
Usually at this time of year, San Francisco’s luxury stores are decked with holiday garlands. Instead, they’re boarded up after widespread “flash mob” looting turned Union Square — the city’s most fashionable shopping district — into an area resembling a blighted neighborhood in Detroit.
“It’s a ghost town,” said Michelle Tandler, a San Francisco native and high-tech entrepreneur, whose photos of the stores barricaded in plywood went viral on social media this week. “Every store has a security guard. People are going to lose their jobs. And these things have a ripple effect.”
Two weeks ago, San Francisco was the first of several progressive cities hit by smash-and-grab mobs of thieves, sometimes as many as 80 in a group. Video from the San Francisco looting of Louis Vuitton shows criminals walking casually out of the store, goods in hand. Other cities hit include Los Angeles, Chicago and Minneapolis.
“This is traumatizing for our associates and is unacceptable,” said Best Buy CEO Corie Barry four days before yet another outlet was ransacked on Black Friday in a Minnesota mall. “We are doing everything we can to try to create as safe as possible environment.”
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With emphasis on arrogant. Having grown up in NYC I know these people and I hope they get a touch of the evil they created. I won't be joining prayer circles when it comes their way.
Cheapskates using OSB. They deserve what they get.
Usually the Christmas season is a great time to be walking around NYC. I was there last Wednesday and it's not the same. The Christmas spirit is just not there. People are keeping their heads down and hurrying to their destinations. A lot of people are still wearing those infernal face masks and it makes them look like space aliens or absent-minded surgeons.
City government is not making it very pleasant to be in NYC. Now they are looking to put their jackboot to whoever decides to stick it out.
"… yet another outlet was ransacked on Black Friday."
No comment necessary.
“Looters will be shot”
Ask Kyle how that works. In other words, they all know it’s meaningless.
Yeah...don’t think Chinese would put up with looting
Am waiting when they invade Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.
I will laugh like all get out when that happens.
Progressive axiom: crime is not a thing.
The damaged stores should stop collecting and remitting sales taxes - and dare the city to do anything about it. They are not getting the services their customers are paying for.
Unfortunately, JonPreston, most of them have the financial means to insulate themselves.
When the covid crap and last years riots kicked into high gear a guy down the street from my brother sold his house in one day. Sight unseen, not walk through. Nothing. House went for over $1million. Buyer paid cash. That was happening all over Long Island, SW Connecticut, the North Jersey suburbs and Westchester County and north.
From what I’ve been told, they’re ruining Ulster and Sullivan County. These folks move in, snatch up everything, raise taxes through the roof and force everyone out. Same thing they’re doing in Boise, Atlanta and surrounding area, Boazman, Kalispell and lots of other places around the country.
They’re gross humans.
Just part of a diverse city.
As if this is a new thing.
We were vacationing in SF in the 80s and had parked near Frederick’s of Hollywood. It was a short drive back to the hotel where we’d walked in and turned on the tv to see we’d just missed being mobbed by dozens of gays who’d rushed Frederick’s and stole everything including the fixtures.
How looting turned the most upscale part of San Francisco into a ghost town>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
When you’re handed Lemons....make lemonade!
That whole neighborhood needs a 2nd amendment boost!
All the effected busiesses simply need to convert to being gun shops with several indoor shooting ranges:
“How to Build an Indoor Shooting Range”
https://supertargetsystems.com/build-indoor-shooting-range/
The bext time the BLM and ANTIFA organized gangs come looting they will be physically stopped, and if they draw weapons, they will be shot down.
Remember the Alamo!
Woke Best Buy, greenwashed Louis Vitton, vax grifters Valentino, joke woke Burberry, 'gender neutral' Zara.
Next the city will be issuing looter permits.
All those people who voted for $#iting in their own nest had better stay there and clean it up. Don’t be comung to Texas and bringing that $#it with them. They’ve already ruined Austin and that’s enough.
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