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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I thought the Newman Marcus Rotunda was planning to reopen this Holiday season. Liberals destroys all our cities. These cities belong to all Americans.
Coincidentally, I heard on Iheartradio news this morning that Beverly Hills has added more cops to their force and have also hired ‘private’ security to “protect” their precious Rodeo drive.
The Sir Francis Drake has closed too?!
“Too much fighting on the dance floor.”
I bet those racist shop-owners have turned it into a “food desert,” too!
That’s why they always go for corporate stores. Joe’s Jewelry the owner may shoot them.
but they don’t show the homeless sleeping near the door or the crap and needles on the sidewalk...
buy up the island and then control access...
I guess that the place has been raided by the looters...or at least they tried.
I hope it gets hit HARD.
Snooty SOBs deserve it.
I have visions of FJB or Lets go Brandon painted on those plywood panels.
This video is current and depicts a major mall at least 4 stories and is quite large. It is right downtown in San Francisco, city center apparently.
It is deserted at 4:00 on a Thursday afternoon. Very little foot traffic. Shops with no, that is 0 customers. A food court that is empty.
There are no, absolutely no signs or decorations for Christmas. Christmas has apparently been called off probably the stores have no funds for the decorations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZbzsQX7PgY&t=302s
If San Francisco is dying, it’s good news for real America.
Textbook terrorism. Instill fear and watch society grinfd to a halt. And the thug perps were not even attempting to engage in terrorism. They were just stinking criminals looking for easy gain off others. The net effect however, is the same as if a terrorist had set off a bomb downtown.
People change their behavior.
Good going, Frisco. Couldn’t happen to nicer guys.
If the Kali legal system gets any more “reformed” than this San Francisco is going to look like Rome just after the Vandals came through.
Merry Christmas.
A godless city looking like a city looks when it abandons God.
I thought San Franciscans loved the Dems and the less fortunate and poor. Then why not open their arms to them?
Is San Francisco mostly Democrat or Republican? (Wikipedia)
Every Congressional district in the Bay Area is currently represented by a Democrat. According to the Cook Partisan Voting Index (CPVI), congressional districts the Bay Area tends to favor Democratic candidates by roughly 40 to 50 percentage points.
Free....
Everything is free except our Republic.
Who said freedom is not free?
The origin of the saying, “freedom is not free,” is credited to retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Walter Hitchcock of the New Mexico Military Institute, according to the Project 21 website.
Photos of boarded up windows.
Why aren’t there dorky looking “art” vandalism by illiterate thugs? Is this space reserved for a commissioned Hunter mural?
In Minnesota after one Target store was looted and totally destroyed Target put up a painted mural glamorizing Floyd and saying “We are with you, we are all in this together. Black Lives Matter.”
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