Posted on 11/21/2021 7:16:57 AM PST by skyman
WALNUT CREEK (CBS SF) — Dozens of looters swarmed into the Nordstrom store in downtown Walnut Creek Saturday night, terrorizing shoppers, ripping off bag loads of merchandise and ransacking shelves before fleeing in a several vehicles waiting for them on the street.
Walnut Creek Lt. Ryan Hibbs told KPIX 5 that police began receiving calls about the looting at around 9 p.m. He said there were approximately 80 individuals who ran into the store and began looting and smashing shelves.
Video shot at the scene shows the masked looters streaming out of the store, carrying bags and boxes, jumping into the cars.
Dozens of police vehicles also responded to the scene.
Hibbs said officers stopped one vehicle and arrested both suspects — a male and a female — inside. The male was charged with robbery, possession of stolen property, conspiracy to commit burglary and possession of burglary tools. The female was arrested for unlawful possession of a firearm.
Stolen property from the looting and a firearm was recovered from their vehicle.
A third suspect was caught on foot and arrested. He was also charged with robbery, possession of stolen property, conspiracy to commit burglary and possession of burglary tools.
Brett Barrett is one of the managers of P.F. Chang’s restaurant across from the Nordstrom store. He watched as the bedlam unfolded.
“I probably saw 50-80 people in like ski masks with crowbars, a bunch of weapons,” he said. “They were looting the Nordstrom.”
“There was a mob of people,” he continued. “The police were flying in. It was like a scene out of a movie. It was insane.”
Barrett also worried about the safety of the diners in his restaurant. Many crowded around the windows to watch the looters flee.
“I had to start locking the back door. You never know, they could come right in here. It was crazy…All the guests inside were getting concerned. It was a scary scene for a moment.”
> He said there were approximately 80 individuals who ran into the store and began looting and smashing shelves. <
Good strategy on the part of the looters. Two or three or five cop cars aren’t going to be able to handle that. As Stalin once said, “Quantity has a quality all its own.”
So now California has a tough choice: Use lethal force to stop this, or accept it as the new normal. I kid, of course. No California politician will dream of using force. This will be the new normal by default.
Coming to a rich neighborhood house 🏡 near you!
I used to live a couple miles from there. I moved to Texas in 2012. Most people that live in that community would have never thought that would happen in their neighborhood, at least not 10 years ago.
What color are they? I’d be wrong.
Nice to see suburban leftists getting targeted. They thought they could practice their leftist religion, and still live in the safety of the suburbs. I guess not.
Piracy was pretty much the norm for most of early man’s history.
So much for “progressivism”
It is also what you can expect from Walnut Creek police nowadays. During the rampant BLM sponsored looting of last summer in the exact same area they, the coppers, just stood around on street corners and did nothing except keep people from going in to film the carnage — if you tried to take videos you were run off.
They were obviously told to stand down, and they did. BLM thugs “demonstrated” down major avenues setting fires and such not more than a few blocks from my house.
I’m very surprised that any of them, the coppers, showed up a’tall. Those thugs arrested will undoubtedly be kicked lose without charges, like in LA or Frisco. WCreek tries to think of itself as some sort of smaller, hoidy-toidy northern version of BeverlyHills — they pander to the same types and try and act like them. So, if LA allows mayhem, WC will, too.
Too bad about Nordys, my wife and I were there Thursday PM.
bingo
If squeamish, start with rubber bullets and aim for the fat butts. If they get up after that, ..... do your damned job.
You only need to shoot a few looters before the rest get the point and keep their thieving butts home.
This is how the street peddlers get their stock. Not organized, just part of doing business in a corrupted society. If you buy anything from some dude ona street, you are in their food chain.
I always thought “Black Friday” referred to retail stores promoting big pre-Christmas sales to get “out of the red”.
Guess I was wrong.
They looted a Walmart after Katrina. Only items left we’re working boots !
The threat of possible lethal force would bring this to a screeching halt. Remember the rash of “creepy clowns” that turned up from coast to coast several years ago? Locals started taking potshots at them and they disappeared as if by magic. If each time these groups of ghetto thieves swarmed a store, one or two of them were winged — or worse — it’d stop overnight.
Hope they didn't double park, because then this would be a serious crime, that the DA might even prosecute.
Democrats are al about taking form some and giving to others minus a government service charge. Direct action like this makes sure that it all gets to the beneficiaries. We have become a nation of thieves.
“Government is the great fiction by which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.” Fredrik Bastiat 1801-1850. Things have only gotten much worse over the last 170 years.
Not so. Only the blue townships controlled by TWOT’s all lit up by bravely outlawing plastic bags and holding 5K’s for climate change.
About 30+ miles east of the ocean. Past that, all is red. And, peaceful. It is like a line drawn down the map — except for Sacramento — the initial sight of first corruption.
—”They are Looters and should be SHOT ON SIGHT”
Shoot the leaders and shoot to kill.
FIFY
I sure as He77 wouldn't want to take my chances with a Bay area judge and jury.
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