Posted on 08/09/2023 10:20:15 PM PDT by grundle
A mob of thieves was captured on video fleeing a luxury clothing store in Glendale, California, carrying armloads of merchandise reportedly worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in broad daylight on Tuesday.
Bystanders outside the Americana at Brand shopping complex in Glendale recorded now-viral cellphone video of the dozens of masked thieves running out of an Yves Saint Laurent store.
"All merchandise was taken in less than a minute," a store worker told FOX11 Los Angeles.
Video shows that a delivery driver nearby tried to stop one thief as another bystander shouted, "Let him go! It’s not worth it."
Other witnesses are seen standing by and watching the thieves carrying clothes and handbags into waiting getaway cars.
The suspects escaped to multiple getaway cars that were parked outside and sped away.
The stolen merchandise was estimated to be worth about $300,000, Glendale police told KABC-TV.
Police said the "flash mob" burglary involved between 30 and 40 suspects who all escaped in about 20 separate vehicles, the station reported.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Glendale Police Department but did not immediately hear back.
California, like many states, has seen brazen smash-and-grab robberies in recent years, a trend that saw an increase during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Last week, a group of masked thieves ransacked a jewelry store in Irvine, California, and made off with nearly $900,000 in merchandise.
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Too bad somebody didn’t have some spike mats to throw down in the path of the getaway cars.
Teenz
Uncool YSL,
umm, no,
uncool kapo Soros.
Every time we let this crap happen with no consequences, we are effectively ENCOURAGING further illegal behavior.
Newsome is second Dem choice behind Biden despite CA rapidly turning into a 3rd world cesspool for all to see.
Insane.
This will end abruptly when insurers refuse to cover Yves Saint Laurent and other ‘woke’ stores for retail theft. Money dries up where it is unappreciated.
The people of California voted this in via a referendum. Prop 47
So what?
They have the craptopia they voted for.
A person must accept the fact that Democrats are stupid.
What? You all thought these filthy male military aged wetbacks and chinks were coming here for the free tacos? chuckle; chuckle.
Well, OK then.
Whats the big deal? A group of minority yutes finally get a good paying job doing what they love and people are upset? I don’t get it.
Curious why nobody disables the cars of thieves. Pop tires. Puncture their radiators. Break their windshields. Break lights.
Break heads be mo’ betta.
So where was “Sikh guy” with the broom handle to dispense quick justice?
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