Posted on 12/04/2021 4:17:35 AM PST by MtnClimber
What do these 'smash and grab' robberies plaguing cities such as San Francisco say about the participants?
The facile assembly of large mobs of miscreants to raid retailers in San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles is even more alarming than it seems.
The events are novel and even a bit entertaining, posing only a minor challenge to law enforcement if police are permitted to intercede.
More important than the incidents per se, however, is what they may reveal about the participants.
Lootings have been widely reported, mainly on the West Coast. At Union Square in the heart of San Francisco:
“At least 40 thieves allegedly broke into a Louis Vuitton store on Friday [November 26], grabbing whatever they could before loading it into a series of cars parked curbside out front. The shoplifting caravan cut a swath through San Francisco’s high-end boutiques, creating a scene of chaos while stealing more than $1 million in merchandise.”
SNIP
Criminal flash mobs do not assemble spontaneously in an appointed location in response to a social media announcement. The perps arrive as a group after some preparation: cars have multiple passengers, license plates have been covered or removed, and full-face coverings for the perps far exceed the exigencies of COVID. Once the perps leave their cars and enter the target stores, however, planning is no longer evident. Bedlam ensues, the video records portraying controlled chaos in what might be described as an amalgam of the no-limit-shopping-challenge and a Black Friday at Walmart. The trespass is brief. Perps collect their prizes, load them into cars, and disappear in multiple directions.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I bet a flash mob never hits the Pelosi estate!
Flash mobs are cured with muzzle flash.
But they all have high school diplomas on their walls...Annnd that’s the most important thing in life ... A piece of paper they can’t read.....
I watch the videos of these flash mobs, all the Antifa/BLM riots, lootings, assaults, arsons and just can’t help but to think I am witnessing the last years of the greatest country on earth.
I bet that if these mobs encountered some shotgun blasts of bird shot during their robbery it would stop immediately.
But then CA doesn’t believe in the Second Amendment.
The weather has been good for looting.
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More important than the incidents per se, however, is what they may reveal about the participants. ‘
Huh? Says more about those allowing it. If you let them they will. Why let them?
We ought to find out who some of these Mob people are and while they are out rioting and looting burn down THEIR homes. After all they should have insurance right? It is only property. S/O
Ali Baba and his 40 Thieves. I wonder if they’re paid a flat rate, or a percentage.
Seriously? This isn’t a social behavior to study.
There is no way in the English language to agree more with what you just wrote.
There is no incentive to track them or law enforcement could do so easily via drones.
Excellent observation.
They better no try to smash and grab anything on my street.
The author of this article is playing dumb. He knows who the perps are, what their family structure is, where and how they were raised, what political party created, supports, protects and benefits from them. These people are not new. They have been around for generations. Only the tactic is new, being enabled by leftist prosecutors no bail policies and the decriminalization of shoplifting. Inner city culture created these people but that culture cannot be criticized and the criminals it creates can no longer be incarcerated. To do so is racist.
Double O far better.
But I guess there wasn't any money in that.
Has anyone seen any white devils participating in these “flash mobs”? Or is it like the “Knockout” game? Only “people of color” partake in the action?
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