Sure!
Posted on 07/12/2022 1:42:17 PM PDT by grundle
As Sunday night gave way to Monday morning (“National 7/11 Day”), a string of Los Angeles area 7-Elevens were robbed and two people — one customer and one clerk — were killed.
Three others were wounded in the five armed robberies that occurred over the course of the late evening and early morning.
“Our hearts are with the victims and their loved ones. We are gathering information on this terrible tragedy and working with local law enforcement,” said 7-Eleven in a statement. “Right now, our focus is on Franchisee, associate and customer safety. With that in mind, we encouraged stores in the Los Angeles area to close overnight.”
At least three of the robberies are believed to have been committed by the same suspect, including the two that included murders at 7-Elevens in Brea and Santa Ana. It is unclear whether the violence had anything to do with the chain’s National 7/11 Day promotion, which offered customers a free Slurpee beginning at midnight on Monday.
The violent evening is a reminder of Los Angeles’s rising murder rate. Through June 18, murders were up 5.5 percent in 2022 over the previous year and up 35 percent over 2020.
Monday also saw Starbucks announce that it would be closing down 16 locations in urban centers around in the country, including Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, citing safety concerns in each of those cities, reported the Wall Street Journal.
“We read every incident report you file—it’s a lot,” wrote Starbucks executives Debbie Stroud and Denise Nelson in a message delivered to U.S. employees and obtained by the Journal. “We cannot serve as partners if we don’t first feel safe at work,” continued Stroud and Nelson.
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Grape is a killer.
Food deserts.
It could be the slurpees...but it’s probably the weak on crime prosecutors.
Lazy ass donut eating police don’t do their jobs. Why should a business have to shutter in fear of crime? If the cops aren’t their to protect, then shoot the feral pieces of excrement.
The ferals gotta feral.
“Hopped up on sugary Slurpees, robbing and killing others is no way to go through life, Son!” ~ Dean Wormer
The cops show up after the fact to draw chalk lines and take pictures.
More details here...
Including a pic of a possible perp.
Alright...I know which day NOT to go to the 7/11.
No coffee and no slurpees.
What will LA do?
racist...just racist....
L.A. doesn’t deserve convenience, apparently.
Maybe the violent thugs in LA are racist against people with slight Indian accents.
Don’t announce any specific closure. Put up a sign one evening saying the store will be closed a couple of days for remodeling. Gut the store of all merchandise and anything of value. Announce the closure afterward.
Wow! I grew up in Brea and lived in the neighborhood next to that 7/11. Brea was an incredibly safe place in the 60/70/80’s. I remember walking or riding my bike the 2 blocks up Brea Blvd with friends or sometimes alone in the summers to that very same 7/11 to get a large slurpee for a quarter when I was only 6 or 7 years old. Fast forward to 2022, and no parent in their right mind would ever allow their 6 year old to walk or ride anywhere.
Man, my childhood was the best.
7-11s should pull out. Koreans can open up convenience stores with bullet proof barriers with shotguns behind the counter.
If I were a cop I’d work diligently toward retirement while letting the ghetto 🐀 rats behave anyway they want.
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