Posted on 01/31/2022 8:13:08 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Actor Michael Rapaport returned to his neighborhood Rite Aid on Sunday only to find shelves empty just days after he saw a brazen thief calmly walk out of the store with two shopping bags full of stolen goods.
‘Back in my Rite Aid,’ he said in a video posted to his Instagram on Sunday. ‘And there’s nothing to steal because this Rite Aid like so many other Rite Aids is closing down because everybody stole everything. And the workers here don’t know if they’re getting jobs.
‘Congratulations, losers,’ the 51-year-old actor concluded in the video, which had already garnered 20,570 views in just one hour.
It came nearly one week after the actor, known for his work on Boston Public, captured on video a bold thief sauntering out of the store, at 80th Street and 2nd Avenue, with two shopping bags full of stolen goods.
The Rite Aid in the video has been hit with thefts of the same nature on an almost daily basis, a security guard told Rapaport. The store will be closing on February 15, and 63 other locations will close in the coming months with a rash of thefts one of the primary reasons, the pharmacy chain announced in late December.
DailyMail.com has reached out to the Rite Aid store on the Upper East Side as well as the pharmacy’s corporate communications department for comment.
Rapaport’s video on Tuesday starts with Rapaport filming the thief sauntering out of the Rite Aid, while the exasperated actor fumbles with his words before shouting, ‘I can’t believe I’m seeing this s**t!’
‘He’s walking down the street like s**t is Gucci, he looked me in the face like ”what’s good.” I was watching him the whole time! My man just went Christmas shopping in January.’
The Heat star captions the video: ‘Duke just went CHRISTMAS SHOPPING at @riteaid I’m TRIPPING this happened in broad day like it was nothing. New @iamrapaport discusses it all. I was just informed this Rite Aid is closing 2/15 because of this, leaving the workers JOBLESS. @ericadamsfornyc YO,’ tagging the drug store chain and New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
He told DailyMail.com that he initially thought the thief was an employee because ‘he was just so deliberate and casual.’
He said he was ‘disgusted’ and ‘surprised’ when he saw the thief stocking up on items from three different sections of the pharmacy before deciding he was satisfied.
‘These criminals know there are no ramifications. We have to put more of these mfers in jail,’ he said.
‘You see all these videos on Instagram of people shoplifting like they’re going for a walk in the park. It’s pathetic that this is happening in the greatest city in the world,’ Rapaport said last week.
Wonder how much they donate to democrats. Suckers!!
Got rid of that damn white-owned store, all right!
It is all going down....The only question is.... “when”....
Wonder who this dude votes for. Do we have to guess?
And when all the stores are closed down and boarded up...
Great; now we have “pharmacy deserts” (which oddly overlap exactly the “food deserts”, which overlap the “W-2 deserts”...).
Michael Rappaport? He is a foul-mouthed, far left, Trump-hating lunatic. You own this, Mikey.
De-gentrification. Or maybe it’s de-generation?
Once upon a time . . .
If you go back 20 years ago in east DC...same issue arose. It took around ten years but eventually, all of the grocery stores on the eastern side of the District closed down. Same pattern....cops could arrest and detain people but charges were lessened or dismissed. Politicians acted all shocked when commerce halted in the area.
This is what libtardism looks like when it implodes on itself due to fruition 🤪
Will Mike finally wake up ?
redlining will occur in the crime ridden areas. Race hustlers will blame white people and politicians will pass new laws and funnel billions of dollars into the problem.
Same as it ever was.
Our society is breaking down under the burden of the Democrat ideals. Crime like this hurts everyone
Reversion; it will look like the Third World where the absence of law and order make it futile to build or invest in anything.
Those feral bastards doing this are not Americans. They are friggin’ thieving maggots.
And a wigger.
Mike...you're an idiot.
Nobody but the criminals were going there anyway.
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