Posted on 09/18/2018 3:45:00 PM PDT by PROCON
Police say a career criminal ripped off a downtown Seattle Target store three times in four days, even after being arrested and released for his crimes.
Surveillance video from August allegedly shows 41-year-old Jason Lewis confronting sales workers on the electronics floor of the department store. At one point, he head bumps an employee. The terrorized employees left him alone after that. Lewis then destroyed display cases and grabbed as many electronics as he could over 15 minutes.
“He then begins to push over and drags store displays and he uses one as a weapon, swinging it like a sled hammer trying to break a secure container loaded with iPads and Apple watches,” KIRO 7’s Gary Horcher reported. “When that didn’t work, he kicked it repeatedly. Then he got down on the floor and tried to kick it open with both feet. Keep in mind, three minutes have passed since this violent tirade began. Lewis rips down the big video monitor on top of the Apple display, and then he is barely able to budge the very heavy 4-foot by 3-foot locked case.”
“Desperate to break it open, Lewis flips it onto the floor and slides the case, shoving it down the aisles of the store,” he said. “Lewis slides and shoves the display onto, then right down an escalator while people were riding on it. One customer hustles to get out of the way, while another pauses to look back as the display case comes crashing down to the floor below with Jason Lewis in hot pursuit.”
Eventually, Lewis loads all the electronics into a duffel bag, which police say he stole from the Columbia store down the street, along with the clothes he was wearing.
Seattle police were called but never responded to the burglary over the 15 minutes it occurred. It is unknown why. Lewis was arrested later that night for car prowling. A judge released him from jail 19 hours later. That’s when Lewis went back to the same Target store and repeated the thefts two more times over three days. Police eventually tackled him outside the store after his final attempt.
... Lewis was arrested later that night for car prowling. A judge released him from jail 19 hours later. That’s when Lewis went back to the same Target store and repeated the thefts two more times over three days.
Welcome to Seattle, the land of corrupt judges, a police-hating city council and metrosexual man-bun wearing hipsters.
Dressed like an Antifa.
“”then right down an escalator while people were riding on it””
That had to be more of an “upscale” Target than any I’ve ever seen. The ones I’m familiar with are always in some pretty shabby strip malls.
Was he wearing a dress?
Fifteen minutes? What, did he have to use the Ladies Room?
“Seattle police were called but never responded to the burglary over the 15 minutes it occurred. It is unknown why.”
No kidding. Because libtards are cowards?
He’s Seattle’s next mayor!!!
Prefrontal cortex missing.
Don’t they sell baseball bats at Target? Why didn’t someone grab one and put a stop to this asshole? There are no men in Seattle....
Downtown Seattle’s Target is huge and made-up mainly of gender-neutral bathrooms.
There were enough “males” surrounding him at the doors at one point and they could have all taken him down then. But what good would it have done? They must have figured it wasn’t worth the risk of injury when nothing was going to be done about his tirades anyway as evidence by the “no show” of police response.
“....Seattle police were called but never responded to the burglary over the 15 minutes it occurred.....”
While a customer shooting the thief might have just made the Seattle ultra liberals gone crazy.
Seattle is a low justice zone. “....Lewis was arrested later that night for car prowling. A judge released him from jail 19 hours later. That’s when Lewis went back to the same Target store and repeated the thefts two more times over three days. Police eventually tackled him outside the store after his final attempt........”
Actually Seattle has a great Police force, but the leftist City Council won’t allow them to do their job.
“Actually Seattle has a great Police force, but the leftist City Council won’t allow them to do their job.”
Yes!! Thank you for stating this truth! The officers are overworked, understaffed, fed up with judges and prosecutors who refuse to do their jobs...and have been working without a contact for over three years!!
Sounds like he went to a lot of work. He should head south. Theft of under $950 in property is not illegal any more in CA. Fill your cart and saunter out.
The deserve what they have brought on themselves.
And if they had done so, they would all have lost their jobs because that's the rules of retail. If anyone tried who wasn't an employee, he could sue for assault and win.
Somewhere along the line, we've taken the whole concept of "freedom" a bit too far. /s
One word: Bricked... So stupid and ignorant.
#1 In California you can steal $1,000 and it is a misdemeanor. Target would have fired anyone who tried to stop the thief. In the old days someone would have taken a rifle from the sporting goods display and shot the thief.
They should have made some lassos out of extension cords.
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