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‘It Was Insane’; Dozens Of Looters Ransack Walnut Creek Nordstrom Store-(not looters organized gangs)
KPIX.com CBS ^ | 11/20/21

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.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; california; crime; democratcities; dystopia; eastbay; gangs; gavinnewsom; looting; newsom; nordstrom; sanfrancisco; sanfransicko; smashandgrabs; walnutcreek
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To: skyman

Feel good story. The worse it gets the sooner it all implodes


41 posted on 11/21/2021 7:51:53 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: skyman

I have no clue where this is, and I refuse to do more than read headlines. So now what?


42 posted on 11/21/2021 7:53:13 AM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: butlerweave

Just a pre Black Friday promo grab to avoid crowds.


43 posted on 11/21/2021 7:54:10 AM PST by cnsmom
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To: AndyJackson

The fall of northern counties in California prefigured the fall of states we see now. Remember Ford, Reagan X2, and GHW Bush all carried California.

When I was a student in Santa Clara County in the 80s, San Francisco, Alameda, Marin, Santa Cruz we’re always loopy. However, Santa Clara, Contra Costa where this store is, San Mateo,
Solano, would still frequently send Republicans to office. Eventually all the Bay Area counties fell. Then the cancer spread inland to Sacramento, San Joaquin, and they fell. Now farther East we’re under siege here in Placer. GOP still commands a pluraity in party registration, but has dropped 11 points.

This is a simplified model as there are a lot more counties involved, and I don’t know that the tide can ever be rolled back. If anything can make a dent in the blue wall, perhaps smug suburban libs having their stores in the clean and comfortable malls looted might help


44 posted on 11/21/2021 7:54:27 AM PST by j.havenfarm (20 years on Free Republic, 12/10/20! More than 3700 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

And don’t forget a lot of the third World country invaders are in this country now and once they get a sniff of what the BLM rioters are getting away with they too will join the party. Once the supplies of freebies is exhausted and no longer receive the goodies they too will join in the parade.. In Haiti you would see a lot of this. But don’t forget folks I just read an article that says that the cartels are beginning to make huge roots in California. These people are ruthless , Vicious and heartless they are Satan‘s and the progressives walking boots! The caravans that are and have invaded our nation has a lot of bad people in the mix. And it’s not only 100 or 200 you’re talking about in the thousands. We have lost control folks ...our nation has gone over the Clift all that needs to happen now is for the splat to be heard.


45 posted on 11/21/2021 7:54:42 AM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: butlerweave
They are Looters and should be SHOT ON SIGHT

Release the Kyles!

46 posted on 11/21/2021 7:54:44 AM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: skyman

Christmas looting. Uh, shopping. Yeah,that’s it.


47 posted on 11/21/2021 7:56:33 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Skywise

You pinned it exactly right.


48 posted on 11/21/2021 7:57:52 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: RoseofTexas

Definitely time for a national divorce, imho. Will Texas accept refugees from Massachusetts? I can swap homes with someone from Austin.


49 posted on 11/21/2021 7:58:55 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: AndyJackson

Walnut Creek is 2% black—the other shoppers must have thought a foreign army had invaded!

;-)


50 posted on 11/21/2021 7:59:59 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Bon of Babble

I live nearby as well—after the riots there in summer 2020, we no longer shop or dine there. The city can’t doesn’t care about lawlessness and doesn’t protect the business owners.

When I moved here 12 years ago, it was 50-50 Dem/Rep. Now it is 75-25, and it shows.


51 posted on 11/21/2021 8:00:18 AM PST by olivia3boys
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To: skyman

“Looter” is an offensive term. They should be called “people of color.”

/s


52 posted on 11/21/2021 8:01:23 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

Indeed. I have no sympathy for SF or any of their problems.


53 posted on 11/21/2021 8:02:02 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Skywise
WTF is a government for if it does not even pretend to protect people from this kind of lawlessness. You can bet your a$$ that if someone had shot one of the looters social justice protesters the DA would have given them the full Kyle Rittenhouse.
54 posted on 11/21/2021 8:02:09 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: cnsmom

“Pre Black Friday”

Heheheheh


55 posted on 11/21/2021 8:02:11 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: skyman

At first I thought... “There is no downtown Walnit Creek!”
Then I remembered, “Wait, this is Florida....can’t be OUR Walnut Creek...”


56 posted on 11/21/2021 8:03:04 AM PST by Phinneous (By the way, there are Seven Laws for you too! Noahide.org)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Black Fridays Matter.


57 posted on 11/21/2021 8:03:07 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: Skywise

I’m all ears, BUT I assumed the warning sign was Sessions recusing himself, and Barr not doing a DAMN thing to protect the Portland federal courthouse. I was convinced then that a sufficient # of GOP’s were ILLEGALLY unmasked and blackmailed into submission.
One of the keys is ferreting out who was blackmailed and getting them out of office.
Another BIG problem is the left owning the NSA & DOJ, so any offensive action will be nearly impossible to coordinate without alerting fedgov. How would you communicate?
We cannot win playing defense.


58 posted on 11/21/2021 8:03:22 AM PST by 82nd Bragger (Count to four except when in a helicopter)
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To: bobbo666
They were obviously told to stand down, and they did.

Happened in Scottsdale, AZ, too. Clearly some kind of nationwide stand down order went out to police agencies - from whom and by what authority we still don’t know. It appears it has never been rescinded. Liberal chiefs want to stay on the good side of the Great Reset’s proponents.

59 posted on 11/21/2021 8:06:13 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELET)
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To: Wilhelm Tell

The enquiring ‘real journalist’ among us out there in that hellhole might look at how Facebook or Twitter facilitated the coordination of the ‘event.’

Who am I kidding? There are no ‘real journalists’ or investigative reporters anymore..


60 posted on 11/21/2021 8:06:14 AM PST by Gaffer
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