Posted on 11/21/2021 9:45:28 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (AP) — About 80 people, some wearing ski masks and wielding crow bars, ransacked a high-end department store in the San Francisco Bay Area, stealing merchandise before fleeing in cars waiting outside, police and witnesses said.
Three people were arrested while the majority got away after the large-scale theft Saturday night shocked shoppers at the Nordstrom in Walnut Creek, police said.
NBC Bay Area reporter Jodi Hernandez tweeted that she saw the thieves rush into the store in the downtown shopping district in the city some 20 miles (32 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco.
“About 25 cars just blocked the street and rushed into the Walnut Creek Nordstrom making off with goods before getting in cars and speeding away,” Hernandez said on Twitter.
Video from the scene shows masked people streaming out of the store, carrying bags and boxes, jumping into the cars and speeding away.
Brett Barrette, the manager of a nearby PF Chang’s restaurant, began locking doors at his establishment while watching the chaos unfold.
“We probably saw 50 to 80 people in ski masks, crowbars, a bunch of weapons,” Barrette told ABC 7 News.
The Walnut Creek Police Department said a firearm was recovered from one of the three arrested suspects, ABC 7 reported.
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Democrats destroying their own cities. Popcorn time.
Here in the Seattle area in the summer of 2020 the looters stole everything out of the downtown Seattle Nordstrom store. Many stores were boarded up after the 2020 riots. Not sure exactly what is going on in downtown Seattle now as not many people want to go there with the riots and the homelessness.
I moved out in 2007, but even then my impression was that Walnut Creek was falling under the control of the exact kind of female liberals who are more likely to stand outside Nordstrom with banners reading: "We apologize for our Whiteness. Come on in and take what you need." :)
Ali Baba staffed up. :)
How soon before every store has roll-up steel shutters and airlock vestibules where only one shopper can be admitted at a time? Shortly after that, all stores will be gone and only Amazon will remain.
Then, finally, people will wake up and say “What have we done? Why did we decriminalize theft and defund the police? Why did we ever elect soft-on-crime marxist city councils, DAs, and state reps?”
Well, no, Mr. POF, that’s never going to happen.
Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy.
You are a man of honor, but, FL unlike CA has the right to carry and the "Home Castle" doctrine, which means the "hood rats" are targets, and they KNOW IT.
Check out the number of walk out $998 steals in FL compared to the rape of CA retail stores...and let's talk about the "juicy targets", because they ain't what you think they are.
Whenever I drive into an “upscale” gated community in FLA guarded by Haitians with guns, I remember 1804.
By the way, thanks for the respect.
Right back atcha.
The MSM is reporting WHAT was stolen but NOT the demographics nor the video of the obvious demo..
No video from the AP, so I’m pretty sure the video makes it crystal clear as to who the perps are. Prove me wrong.
Trivia footnote: Mt. Diablo just outside Walnut Creek is the approximate amount of land mass that blew off the top of Mt St. Helens in or around 1981.
This is smack-dab in the middle of the liberal, wealthy, white and asian professional east bay demographic.
Liberals just got mugged bigtime.
WOW!
My memories of Walnut Creek are 30 years old but my friend's city was excellent {at the time}.
As an eastern sales guy from Pittsburgh, California was the place where the tech smart guys started companies that gave the country great opportunities.
I sold for many of them, made great money for them {and me}, but I never wanted to live there {long term}.
As a semi-good looking sales guy with a pocketful of money in the 70s, 80s and early 90s I loved Kalifornikator and every beautiful woman I met.
I learned to to speak American/Spanish in order to get laid in LA/SD and then in Arizona.
In SF and Walnut Creek, all you needed to be was straight, stay upright, and have a hotel room.
Period.
I loved California and still do, but it breaks my heart as to the communism that has taken over that state.
How forty years of liberal left-wing management turned Walnut Creek into Oakland.
Film at eleven.
You earned it, I remember the bet and the fact that you donated extra money to FR because you kept your word.
That deserves respect.
walnut creek is a well to do, mostly white suburban community, 16 miles away from oakland on state freeway 24.
to get to walnut creek, the “shoppers” would have to cross the bay bridge in both directions. the bay bridge has many video cameras to monitor traffic conditions.
most likely imho the “shoppers” came from oakland, not san francisco.
I wonder if there is any BART surveillance video of the looters carrying their spoils onto BART trains as they head home?
-PJ
The Soros funded radical left DA will not prosecute.
The democrats want it this way. Last year they sponsored the destruction of several downtowns in major cities. This year they are inviting the underclass to waltz in to businesses and help themselves.
When will restaurants be the target? When will America’s #1 victim group be relieved of the responsibility to pay in restaurants?
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