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Surveillance Video Captures Flash Mob Robberies At 3 Chicago Area Stores
CBS Chicago ^ | 11/7/13

Posted on 11/07/2013 5:31:15 AM PST by Kartographer

Unbelievable surveillance video captured flash mobs dashing into store after store and running out with armloads and sometimes entire racks of sporting goods.

It has happened at three different Sports Authority stores in the Chicago area.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; chicagocrime; diversity; flashmobs; obamasfault
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Al Capone would have been proud maybe envious or would have just wanted his cut?
1 posted on 11/07/2013 5:31:15 AM PST by Kartographer
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I wonder who they voted for in the last election.....


2 posted on 11/07/2013 5:34:14 AM PST by rovenstinez (,)
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To: Kartographer

Holder’s people (Obama’s sons) are getting busier these days. Why not, nobody seems to want to stop them.


3 posted on 11/07/2013 5:35:11 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Cruz/Palin 2016)
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Holder-sanctioned reparations, baby... let the good times roll!


4 posted on 11/07/2013 5:40:37 AM PST by Third Person (Welcome to Gaymerica.)
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“Sporting goods”? Is that the new euphamism for weapons? (Can’t watch the video at work)


5 posted on 11/07/2013 5:41:28 AM PST by knittnmom (Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
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Weapon Chicago? Think about it. Mostly team shirts and jersys that could quickly and easily be sold on the street.


6 posted on 11/07/2013 5:43:29 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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If they were “his company stores”, he’d post 1-2 guys and waste the punks w/ .45cal Tommy Guns or 12ga. It would end very quickly after 1-2 funerals.


7 posted on 11/07/2013 5:44:34 AM PST by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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Those aren’t flash mobs, they’re just some thieves.


8 posted on 11/07/2013 5:45:03 AM PST by popdonnelly (The right to self-defense is older than the Constitution.)
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To: Kartographer

Watching societies slow, but steady break down. Have to wonder if at some point there isn’t some minor event that creates a major dam break of societial structure.


9 posted on 11/07/2013 5:50:07 AM PST by Obadiah (I Like Ted.)
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Gotcha! Too early - maybe I should have more tea before I post! :-)


10 posted on 11/07/2013 5:51:34 AM PST by knittnmom (Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
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Exactly! Part of the reason of my clarion call for people to prepare.


11 posted on 11/07/2013 5:53:28 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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When caught, they should be very brutally flogged.


12 posted on 11/07/2013 5:54:36 AM PST by NRA1995 (I'd rather be a living "gun culture" member than a dead anti-gun candy-ass.)
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No different than what happened at WalMart in LA when the EBT system froze.

At least Jindal is going after the criminals. Let’s see if the Godfather even lifts a finger.


14 posted on 11/07/2013 6:00:37 AM PST by randita
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Black Monday?


15 posted on 11/07/2013 6:01:47 AM PST by artichokegrower
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Notice that the “news report” carried no identification information or descriptions about the perps. They question unconnected people on the street about what they think. But NO questions asked of employees or other witnesses about the perps.

Used to be the news would include that sort of info so as to help in the investigations. No more unless the the perps are white.

That tells us all we need to know about the makeup of the perps.


16 posted on 11/07/2013 6:07:32 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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"Holder’s people (Obama’s sons) are getting busier these days..."

Well, the Christmas shoplifting season is getting closer you know.

17 posted on 11/07/2013 6:08:00 AM PST by skimbell
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“urban Food Desert” - term describes how grocery stores mysteriously avoid inner cities. IS IT ANY WONDER? Why spend half your revenue on security? Why worry about restaurant customers getting robbed in a mass stick up? Why offer pizza or Chinese delivery THERE?

Easier to simply avoid opening a business among such animals.


18 posted on 11/07/2013 6:12:09 AM PST by gaijin
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When you’ve got blatant crime, you need brutal honesty in dealing with it - you won’t find that in even the local MSM.

Point one - the term “flash mob” has ambiguous connotations: the punks who ransacked those stores don’t spend their weekends gathering at the Daley Center for impromptu renditions of Handel’s “Messiah”. If the jerks in the newsroom can’t come up with a catchy term for these criminals, they should at least call them what they are - organized gangs of thieves.

Point two - this stuff has been going on for years, not just in Chicago but all over the country. To date, of dozens of cases reported with videos, I haven’t seen one case perpetrated by a gang of Hispanics or gang of white trash - there’s a pattern in the ethnicity of the perps that dare not be mentioned by the press. So at least instead of interviewing a bunch of whitebread yuppie types about these crimes, maybe the news readers might ask some of the community leaders in the local black community what they think of this stuff.

And finally, Sports Authority: hire some guards with dogs to hang out at the entry points. Dogs are great with decent customers of any race, but can be really intimidating to the kind of jerkweeds who pull off this sort of heist, especially when those dogs sense something isn’t right.


19 posted on 11/07/2013 6:12:33 AM PST by Stosh
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Just supplementing the ole EBT card


20 posted on 11/07/2013 6:20:50 AM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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