Biden says ‘no federal solution’
Posted on 01/14/2022 11:15:27 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Critics excoriated California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his fellow Democrats Thursday over a set of videos showing the shocking aftermath of looted trains in Los Angeles.
The videos, posted on Twitter by local CBS photojournalist John Schreiber, showed massive amounts of opened packages, cardboard, and packaging materials strewn around the tracks.
"Keep hearing of train burglaries in LA on the scanner so went to [Lincoln Heights] to see it all. And… there’s looted packages as far as the eye can see. Amazon packages, [UPS] boxes, unused Covid tests, fishing lures, epi pens. Cargo containers left busted open on trains," Schreiber wrote, before further detailing what his team found at the scene.
Critics took to social media to blast Newsom, as well as members of his party, for their handling of the situation, with some suggesting it was the "new normal" for Californians. Others lamented that Newsom was still the governor at all.
"Nice work [Democrats]! This is the end result of many of your 'policies.' You let people steal up to $950 worth of merchandise, you let people live on the street (many criminals), you defund police so they don’t have the force to stop this and kill our supply chain; [this] happens," wrote Republican congressional candidate Robby Starbuck, while Fox News contributor Miranda Devine questioned where the police were while this was happening.
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Train after certain people looted the package contents....
A shocking photo, even for a crime news hound like me.
Amazing the American people are so low now they allowed that.
Maybe some masks were in those boxes.
The Railroads have their “Bulls” and — trust me — if they don’t want the bodies found, the bodies won’t be found. Even working the “drag freight” you’d see crew aboard with open-carried sidearms. Saw one Conductor walking a flatcar with a Western style .45 revolver once. And, because the rails are federal territory, local PD don’t get to say jack crap.
The old Southern Pacific was pretty lax, but when the Union Pacific bought them out, all the old ‘boes moved on; UP Bulls don’t take no s@#+.
Or, at least, they didn’t used to; now it looks like the UP has lost its mojo. Sounds like the UP needs to staff up and mount up. Maybe with MP5’s.
Railroads have their own police force.
If they do not have their own courts and jails then who cares? If they turn over criminals to judges that let them go, police are worthless.
its ugly, the trains are stopped in this area before being shuttled to a new route, so they can get looted
Apparently we will now require a wall between the west coast states and the rest of the usa
Where do I sign up?!
And video cameras.
And lights and sirens.
We just can't let the thieves rule the roost.
Once upon a time, railroads had their own private security/police to knock heads of anyone. I am old enough to have been warned to get off of “railroad property” by some of their security folks, when I knew for a fact I was not on RR property.
I knew, because I was on a public road while doing work for a public works department that also had ownership of the shoulder and yest they threatened to call the police. I told them to please do as I wanted to have them arrested and get things escalated up to their supervisors.
The point is that there has been a complete breakdown of law and order in California, and other parts of the Country (Seattle, Chicago, Portland, etc). In such situations no one is going to do anything to draw the ire of the criminals.
......From what I have read train tracks are a different jurisdiction and police etc are not allowed to intervene.
It is the responsibility of the train companies to protect their own property......
My understanding is that it is a federal crime to “trespass” on RR property. To be allowed on such property one must normally go through a “RR sponsored safety training program” and pass the test and be given a card you must carry on you at all times you have permission to be on the right of way. Yes, I once had to go through the training many years ago.
Also certain crimes on RR property are federal crimes. Recently in WA State two women who had damaged some road crossing signs to try to cause accidents were charged and convicted of federal crimes.
I do know that long ago, a RR employee threatened to call the local City Police on me as I was doing survey work from the fog line shoulder of a public road for the Public Works Department. I asked them to please do call the local police as I wanted to Supervisors involved in interfering with my work for the city.
I think that who has jurisdiction is complicated. Actually, I think this is one of those situations where no one wants to get involved for fear of having protesters claiming that the police or railroad are racists.
The railroads USED to have some of the toughest meanest cops there were, guess not anymore?
In Philadelphia,, NY, and Ohio cities they have carjacking epidemics. Cal. is lucky they haven’t seen trainjackings.
Third World California...
This is a top down, bottom up Alinsky tactic as described by Mark Levin, and a destruction of civil society. I realized the soft coup was well underway with Sessions recusal and Barr’s unwillingness to defend the Portland federal courthouse.
But how do the prosecutors who won’t prosecute get elected?
Videos; https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1481770722271760384.html>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Great Link there Pollard.The video and article really show what preoblems we have with the supply chain. A boxcar full of 20 police dogs would be useful.
from the article there:
“As you can see, trains frequently slow or stop in this area as they get worked into the @UnionPacific Intermodal facility near Downtown LA. The thieves use this opportunity to break open containers and take what’s inside. I’d say every 4th or 5th rail car had opened containers.”
How do they get elected?
The same way an old guy with no real record gets elected from his basement....
Combating inflation, one train at a time
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