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LAPD: 2 Looters Arrested, Impersonating Firefighters, in Palisades Fire
Breitbart ^ | 1/12/25 | Joel B. Pollak

Posted on 01/12/2025 11:05:01 AM PST by CFW

Two looters were arrested recently after they dressed as firefighters and entered local homes vacated in the Palisades Fire, according to information given by the Los Angeles Police Department to community members Saturday evening.

Police have arrested dozens of would-be looters who have targeted the affluent Pacific Palisades, devastated by the fire that raged last week. Many neighborhoods were destroyed, but some homes remain intact — enticing looters.

The police said that in addition to twenty looters who had been arrested in the first days of the fire, seven looters had been arrested more recently. Some 400 officers were assigned to the Palisades Fire, which began in the Palisades but has since spread west to Malibu and east to the hills overlooking Bel Air. The blaze has burned 23,654 acres thus far and is only 11% contained, as of Saturday night.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: badges; california; crime; disaster; fakeids; fire; firefighters; impersonators; imposters; impostors; la; looters; looting; losangeles; palisades; palisadesfire; theft; tinfoil; uniforms
I remember last year reading an article about the number of police officer uniforms stolen over the previous year. Then yesterday, there was the story of the Humvees and other equipment being stolen from a National Guard unit. Now this. I fear there is something even bigger planned.
1 posted on 01/12/2025 11:05:01 AM PST by CFW
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Really chilling that they say utility company uniforms and law enforcement and first responder ones allow looters to go where they please. If the non-evacuated places (lots are still around) they could be used to home invasions and rapes, too.


2 posted on 01/12/2025 11:07:44 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Criminal questioned lurking at a mansion backyard, after saying he was in Mayor Bass’s detail.

“I don’t know what I’m doing. I’m not even sure where I am or what I’m supposed to do.”

Police: “Okay. You are definitely working for Mayor Bass. Go right through.”


3 posted on 01/12/2025 11:13:17 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Looters should be shot.

I’d rather they be hung publicly and left stung up for the vultures.

Got into tiff with Trump-fan white woman who would let them steal her stuff rather

than shoot them.


4 posted on 01/12/2025 11:14:18 AM PST by Surrounded_too (LE)
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Looters all from a church group no doubt.


5 posted on 01/12/2025 11:16:43 AM PST by doorgunner69 (Your oath of enlistment has no expiration date)
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To: Surrounded_too

After Hurricane Katrina the motto was, “You loot, we shoot.” It was a successful deterrent.


6 posted on 01/12/2025 11:17:23 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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“Two looters were arrested recently after they dressed as firefighters...”

Q-How do you know they weren’t real firefighters?
A-They actually had water.


7 posted on 01/12/2025 11:18:24 AM PST by Farmerbob
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To: frank ballenger

Criminal questioned lurking at a mansion backyard, after saying he was in Mayor Bass’s detail.

“I don’t know what I’m doing. I’m not even sure where I am or what I’m supposed to do.”

Police: “Okay. You are definitely working for Mayor Bass. Go right through.”


More like “I’m with Bass and I’m here to loot the tax payer.

Police: “Okay. You are DEFINITELY working for Mayor Bass. Go right through.”


8 posted on 01/12/2025 11:21:39 AM PST by rdcbn1 (TV )
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i hope they stole over $1000 so they will be prosecuted.


9 posted on 01/12/2025 11:34:10 AM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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Um, yeah. Hey, Newscum:

Where’s the National Guard? [rhetorical]


10 posted on 01/12/2025 11:37:18 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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Shouldn't they be shooting looters?
11 posted on 01/12/2025 12:03:27 PM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: rdcbn1

Ha.

Still true:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCedOQJ0ZEA


12 posted on 01/12/2025 12:17:10 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: jerod

A sign below it required

TWO BACKHOES ON DUTY.


13 posted on 01/12/2025 12:35:48 PM PST by Vaduz
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To: doorgunner69

...Amish looters, of course


14 posted on 01/12/2025 12:44:42 PM PST by JJBookman (Democrats = Party of the looters )
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White people gots insurance, they get them some more stuff.


15 posted on 01/12/2025 1:43:24 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Your oath of enlistment has no expiration date)
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They’ll prolly be cut loose without charges just like the guy caught setting fire to a neighborhood by local residents because it’s racist.... dontcha know.


16 posted on 01/12/2025 2:53:39 PM PST by LastDayz (A Blunt and Brazen Texan. I Will Not Be Assimilated.)
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If they allowed CA residents more freedom when it comes to owning firearms, and had the same policies as Florida when it comes to looters during an emergency, these burglaries would stop pretty fast.


17 posted on 01/12/2025 3:09:18 PM PST by CFW
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This happens every time there are wild fires and evacuations in So Cal - the looters quickly move in.

This is why people refuse to leave their homes, even at risk of burning to death.

So far, the death toll this morning (Jan. 13th) is 24.


18 posted on 01/13/2025 6:16:03 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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