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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

If any of the caught suspects are unvaxxed, hope they give em the Death Penalty even in fruit and nut Kalifornia.


61 posted on 11/21/2021 8:06:49 AM PST by No_Mas_Obama
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To: skyman

Bookmark


62 posted on 11/21/2021 8:07:59 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: skyman

“As goes California, so goes the nation.” Never forget that.


63 posted on 11/21/2021 8:08:33 AM PST by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven )
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To: skyman

“Video shot at the scene shows the masked looters streaming out of the store, carrying bags and boxes, jumping into the cars.”

At least they were courteous enough to be masked.


64 posted on 11/21/2021 8:10:21 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: 82nd Bragger

Since you bring it up, I half worried that people would feel Trump abandoned them with this COVID then Endless Riots. It concerned me that it seemed there wer people on the fence, ready to go “Republican”, but then Trump didn’t go all the way and ensure order everywhere, including possibly arresting the local scum mayors for ignoring it. Right before an election.


65 posted on 11/21/2021 8:10:49 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: ActresponsiblyinVA
You get what you vote for.

Good and Hard!

66 posted on 11/21/2021 8:11:24 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: skyman

Where’s Kyle?


67 posted on 11/21/2021 8:13:19 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: IamConservative

“And, just like that, there were no more shopping malls and retail stores in California.”

Every few weeks the local news station or newspaper do a story about certain parts of town being a “food desert” where no grocery stores are located. The usual social justice activists, liberal white ministers, and young woke virtue signalers are trotted out to weep and moan about racism and discrimination against people of color in certain neighborhoods. Usually there are comments about the elderly and children being malnourished due to absence of food resources in the neighborhood.

The reality is, grocery stores once existed in these neighborhoods until the cost of operating them became too high? Why did the operating costs become unacceptable? Frequent shoplifting and robberies by the people who lived in the neighborhood were to blame.

It is a good thing the affluent woke young people and upper middle class progressives, who continuously vote for leftist politician and support communist social justice organizations, are beginning to experience the consequences of their support for the insanity destroying communities and our nation. Perhaps the loss of retail stores, car break-ins, home invasions, and arson will cause them to develop the reasoning skills they clearly were not taught in the expensive elite universities they attended.


68 posted on 11/21/2021 8:13:43 AM PST by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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To: JonPreston

Walnut Creek is twenty five miles east of San Francisco.

If you commuted from there by car you need to go through a big tunnel and then go over the San Francisco Bay on the Bay Bridge.

It has a 2% black population and traditionally was one of the suburbs where (mostly white) working folks commuted to SF.

This event was almost the equivalent of a Martian invasion for the old-timers that live and shop there.


69 posted on 11/21/2021 8:14:47 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: aquila48

Indeed!

Is this not lost on these damn commie enablers? I don’t think it’s much coincidence between the timing of the Scamdemic and BLMing.

Masks made them righteous, and the draconian lockdown situations make them more “restless”.


70 posted on 11/21/2021 8:15:28 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: Mr. Jeeves

> Liberal chiefs want to stay on the good side of the Great Reset’s proponents. <

These looters are part of a protected class. So I wonder if the mayors and police chiefs are also worried about lawsuits. Recall that the George Floyd incident cost Minneapolis $27 million (paid to Floyd‘s family).

Stand down, and maybe save the city some money.


71 posted on 11/21/2021 8:16:57 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: skyman

so long as they all took less than $1000... what’s the problem?


72 posted on 11/21/2021 8:21:03 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Tommy Revolts

I hope it all just burns down. At some point people will have enough of it and do something for themselves, maybe. I’m not sure anymore.

I wonder if when it goes so far the system completely breaks down and does not recover?


73 posted on 11/21/2021 8:21:07 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.I ha)
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To: janetjanet998

Was I racist to expect these looters to be Black people?


74 posted on 11/21/2021 8:21:29 AM PST by blam
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Unfortunately our beautiful state is also being overrun by liberal Marxist and I'm afraid our governor is worthless too! He is not fighting hard enough to stop the invaders at the border instead he is going along with whatever cheating Joe’s administration says. Even though our lives are in danger/covid etc and Texas cannot take the brunt of the invaders he is still bowing to this stupid administration. You would think he would gerd his loins and fight and have thousands of national guards on the border but unfortunately he only has a handful and I hear there is like 15,000 Invaders who have vowed that they will fight whatever obstacle is in front of them from keeping them from stepping on our soil. I kid you not ...have you seen the pictures of the healthy black men and easterners screaming at the reporters as they march on their way through Mexico.weeks. That should scare the crap out of everybody.
75 posted on 11/21/2021 8:21:57 AM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: skyman

God-awful.

I always loved Nordstrom. But I’m afraid to find out if they went full-on blatant woke PC.

Nordstrom and Chick-Fil-A were the 2 businesses I held up high. Great product but even more, great impeccable service. Then CFA betrayed us first with the homo thing then, the BLM foot-kissing. I’m afraid to see how Nordstrom has betrayed. After all, it is Seattle based.


76 posted on 11/21/2021 8:22:20 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: UnwashedPeasant
They should be called “people of color.”

I thought they were mostly peaceful demonstrators demanding equitable justice.

77 posted on 11/21/2021 8:23:36 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: skyman

Because nothing screams “Justice” like a brand-new Louis Vuitton handbag.


78 posted on 11/21/2021 8:24:13 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: cgbg

ah, thank you. Pure insanity.


79 posted on 11/21/2021 8:24:17 AM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: janetjanet998

Bunch of Treyvons and Latrinas. Nordstrom doesn’t seem their style but looters gotta loot.


80 posted on 11/21/2021 8:24:24 AM PST by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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