“Excuse me” to who? The cops that were pretending there was no shoplifting spree, or to each other, or the shop owners they pushed aside.
Please tell us more you saw, where ( I used to live there), and what you had to do to stay safe. Thank-you.
A couple of looters ran into each other. They smiled and shrugged and kept going. It was absolute chaos, people everywhere, we heard a few gunshots. This was just southwest of USC, few blocks from where Reginald Denny was nearly killed. Traffic was moving pretty well, no one stopped for very long, including the cops.
Reason we were there was a rescue mission. My (then) girlfriend's roommate was stranded at her apartment near the campus. We picked her up and bought her to our place in West Hollywood, which was as safe as it ever was.