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Huge mob ransacks California gas station; police 'outnumbered': video
Fox News ^ | 04/17/2023 | Greg Norman | Fox News

Posted on 04/17/2023 12:57:55 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

A shocking video captured a mob of California youth breaking into a gas station convenience store and then stealing what police say was thousands of dollars of products.

The incident happened early Sunday morning in Compton, California, after a large group of people blocked an intersection as part of a street takeover, with video footage capturing cars drifting in circles and screeching around 2:30 a.m., according to KLTA.

"It's unbelievable. Unreal. I've never seen anything like that happen here," Greg Johnson, a Compton resident and customer of the Arco Station that was looted, told ABC7 in reaction to the ransacking.

Staff at the Arco said that a clerk there hid in its bathroom while the looting was ongoing.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: arco; california; californication; compton; gasstation; gregjohnson; mob; ransacks; soshootthem; teens; violence
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Compton??? Go figure....
1 posted on 04/17/2023 12:57:55 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Youths”


2 posted on 04/17/2023 1:00:13 PM PDT by day10 (You'll get nothing and like it!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yates that cannot be described.


3 posted on 04/17/2023 1:01:22 PM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they wacnto diese for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Mob of monkey men melee.


4 posted on 04/17/2023 1:03:44 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Unbelievable.” Really?


5 posted on 04/17/2023 1:03:48 PM PDT by DarrellZero
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There is only one known sure fire way to stop looters,
SHOOT ON SIGHT


6 posted on 04/17/2023 1:03:49 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: day10

Will nothing be done to stop the Amish?


7 posted on 04/17/2023 1:04:04 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What are the chances that the Arco does not reopen?


8 posted on 04/17/2023 1:04:11 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Peacefully protesting the price at the pump


9 posted on 04/17/2023 1:04:44 PM PDT by digger48
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is why 80 year old men shoot black kids who mistakenly show up on their door step at 10pm. Just sayin’.


10 posted on 04/17/2023 1:05:55 PM PDT by Mathews (I have faith Malachi is right!!! Any day now...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

More food deserts coming up.


11 posted on 04/17/2023 1:06:55 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
As long as conservatives keep electing RINO pimps and whores into office, this is going to be the future of America. Democrats hate America. Republicans take it for granted.

Now it appears that God is simply giving it to 3rd world trash. Cf. my tagline.

12 posted on 04/17/2023 1:08:42 PM PDT by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.." )
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black dems run wild...see Chicago for reference......


13 posted on 04/17/2023 1:10:16 PM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Bushs lived there


14 posted on 04/17/2023 1:11:05 PM PDT by al baby (Yes he did he said how come i wasnt invited )
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Compton??? Go figure..


Compton used to be a nice town and place to live—in the 1950s. I had relatives who lived there before it went downhill.

During the LA riots of the 60s many people were surprised at how nice Compton appeared on TV, especially in comparison to black neighborhoods ‘back east’.


15 posted on 04/17/2023 1:11:19 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Fai Mao

If they are smart, damn near 100%.


16 posted on 04/17/2023 1:12:15 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That was Compton !!!!! NWA and stuffs! !!

Years ago Compton was white and they worked in the oil refineries there.
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https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/04/them-real-life-inspiration

Three decades before N.W.A. turned Compton into a rap mecca, the Southern California city was blindingly white. It’s a point Amazon makes in Them: Covenant, the first season of its new anthology series, which is set in the sunny neighborhood in the 1950s.

The first episode finds a Black family taking part in the Great Migration, moving west from the Jim Crow South with their hearts set on opportunity and reinvention. In Compton, though, they find more of the hatred they thought they left had 3,000 miles behind.

Them creator Little Marvin told Vanity Fair that he had always envisioned the first season of Them taking place in the west. It wasn’t until the writer began his research, though, that he realized Compton was the perfect backdrop for his socially minded thriller.

“Compton occupies a very iconically Black place in the public’s imagination,” said Little Marvin. “But when you’re digging in—and looking back 60, 70 years ago—not only was it white, but East Compton was really a white stronghold. Those folks were vehemently protective of the white people on their block. The first gangs that were patrolling the streets of Compton were white kids trying to keep Black folks out.” It was a natural setting for his series, which takes a stylized approach to real-life horrors. “It was light bulb after light bulb after light bulb.”

As historian Josh Sides similarly pointed out in an interview with KCET, “It’s difficult to overstate how white Compton was in the early ’50s and late ’40s…exclusively white with an extraordinary web of racially restrictive covenants with a very aggressive policing strategy about keeping Black people out. There was no more effective tool in 20th [sic] America than the racially restrictive covenant in terms of keeping neighborhoods white.”

The first season of Them takes place across 10 days in East Compton, chronicling how the Emory family is met with shocking hostility from their neighbors. In one act of startling aggression, white neighbors set up chairs outside the Emorys’ new home and blast radios. “The L.A. Urban League had actually identified, I want to say, 26 or 27 types of tactics that Black folks experienced,” Little Marvin said. “Anything from acts of vandalism, like burned-down salons, nails up and down the driveway, windows being destroyed to really psychologically terrifying tactics.”

Them’s central storyline was inspired in part by the life of Emory Hestus Holmes. A doctor, World War II veteran, and civil rights leader, Holmes moved to the predominantly white Pacoima neighborhood in the 1950s. His family, according to the online reference center Black Past, “faced a variety of forms of racial harassment that included vandalism, property destruction, and a cross burning.

Agitators also hired undertakers to go to the Holmes family home with orders to pick up dead bodies in an attempt to intimidate and frighten the family.” Holmes later filed a civil rights lawsuit against his neighbors in 1960 and won, and eventually helped to found the San Fernando Valley Fair Housing Council.


17 posted on 04/17/2023 1:13:04 PM PDT by dennisw (This)
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Is it hunting season yet?


18 posted on 04/17/2023 1:13:33 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m running out of printable expletives. The left has created a HUGE group of well trained savages. The left has encouraged them to live without working, off other peoples’ work, to destroy themselves with drugs, smokes, booze, to live irresponsibly and to blame their self-inflicted pathologies on other people and to hate those people.

There is Zero chance that any one of those well trained street savages will ever be brought to justice.

The store owner has the bill now and has to clean up. He’s lucky he didn’t try to defend himself because he would now be in jail.


19 posted on 04/17/2023 1:13:59 PM PDT by I want the USA back (No one is assigned sex at birth. One's sex is noted and recorded. My pronouns Haha, hehe, hoho, hoo )
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Calling Kyle Rittenhouse...


20 posted on 04/17/2023 1:14:48 PM PDT by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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