Posted on 05/23/2023 10:31:47 PM PDT by lowbridge
A store owner of a downtown Los Angeles clothing boutique was transported to the ICU after two armed robbers savagely beat him in a violent pistol whip attack on Wednesday.
Surveillance footage shows the two suspects enter the store and draw their hanguns before attacking the store owner in a brutal beatdown that left victim Franky Salerno bloodied and hospitalized in the intensive care unit, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
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According to LAPD, the two armed theives stole Salerno's Rolex watch, gold necklace, and other jewerly around 4:49 pm on Wednesday at the clothing store located on the 1100 block of Main Street.
Salerno's friend who was accompanying him at the store was also brutally attacked by the two suspects when he went to intervene but ultimately blacked out from the beating, according to NBC Los Angeles.
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Octaviani told KTLA5 that she moved to Arizona earlier this week to escape crime-ridden Los Angeles and just two-days after moving, Salerno's shop was robbed. Thieves came back again the next day, and that's when her boyfriend was left hospitalized.
"Franky got assaulted on Wednesday, but he was there that day with his friend waiting for the police to come because his shop was broken into the night before," said Octaviani. "They took most of his merchandise. On the back of his head, it’s like all staples, it’s crazy."
"Is this what we’ve become?" she asked. "L.A. was once a great city. California was once a great state, but look at it now. What happened?"
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Franky Salerno was once a councilman (Democrat) from New Jersey.
Who did he vote for in 2020? How did he vote in the Newsom recall? I need to know that before I can tell if I care.
Something about those assailants I just can’t put my finger on it. Strange.
“California was once a great state, but look at it now. What happened?”
Victor Davis Hanson, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
What happened? You elected Democrats. You kept corrupt politicians in office. You ignored the border and let the drug cartels come in and control your politicians.
You decommissioned essential military installations. You destroyed heavy industry. You ruined the oil industry.
Have I left anything out?
What happened? This is what you cheered, applauded and voted for. That's what happened. And you ain't seen nothing yet. But keep voting Democrat.

So it took the police over 24 hours to respond? And what else is going on the robbers come back twice? Bet there’s a lot more to the story than being reported.
"Is this what we’ve become?" she asked. "L.A. was once a great city. California was once a great state, but look at it now. What happened?"What happened? This is what you cheered, applauded and voted for.
Yep.
Democrats are running out of other things to blame for the crumbling society. All roads lead back to their policies, they just refuse to accept the truth.
So franky is now living with the consequences of his vote...nice and hard. Good to hear.
Now you're sounding like me! :)
^^^ This.
So the question is whether he finally had the democrat beaten out of him this time. It takes a lot…the cultish mindset is strong.
What a shame
I see the same thing with teachers. Kids in school are out-of-control savages who do no work and care not a whit, and the teachers cannot figure out why. Whenever they talk about it on reddit, sooner or later one of them says, "It all started with No Child Left Behind!" And they get a lot of upvotes. NCLB only ran from 2003 to 2015, and the rot started well before, and has continued to accelerate after, but they cannot think of anything to blame it on but one program by Bush that only ran 12 years, and ended 8 years ago.
‘According to police, “one suspect was last seen wearing a black face mask, a black hoodie with an “X” on it, and black pants.”’
Black mask, hoodie and pants. That’s a whole lot of BLACK.
But your right, there does seem to be something missing in the description. I’m sure it will come to me...
School rot started when they took the Ten Commandments, the Pledge of Allegiance, PADDLES and “reading, writing and arithmetic” out of the classroom!
“Bet there’s a lot more to the story than being reported.”
Yep. Sounds a little like the old mob compliment “Nice little boutique you have here. Be a shame if something happened to it.”.
Except the mob you're referring to was decimated because the Democrats didn't like competition. The Democrats are the new mob and the urban yutes are the soldiers. Instead of handing over the cash from their misdeeds, the cut is counted in votes.
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