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Thirty to 50 people were part of a robbery crew Saturday that swarmed a Nordstrom department store and used bear spray on security guards at a Southern California mall. The heist was reported around 4 p.m. at a Nordstrom in the Westfield Topanga Mall in Canoga Park. The thieves used bear spray on two security guards who confronted them, police said. -snip The thieves took off with thousands of dollars worth of luxury handbags and high-end clothing, an LAPD spokesman told NBC News. Video showed a flurry of activity inside the store with thieves scooping up armfuls of items and...

Police confirmed Wednesday that a group of at least nine men had looted a Gucci store Monday at the Westfield Century City mall in Los Angeles, one of the most popular and upscale shopping centers in the city. Video footage emerged almost immediately: Breitbart News reached out to the management of the mall for confirmation and comment, and received no response. However, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) confirmed the event on Wednesday. The Los Angeles Times reported: The Gucci store at a mall in Century City was robbed Monday by a large group of thieves, in a grab-and-dash heist...

Two people are in the hospital and one person is dead after a shootout erupted at a popular mall when a Texas man tracked down alleged thieves accused of stealing his truck. A shopper at the South Park Mall in San Antonio reportedly noticed his Ford truck had been stolen on Thursday afternoon. The owner tracked down his truck to another side of the South Park Mall, according to the San Antonio Police Department. There were allegedly two people sitting inside the stolen vehicle — a man in the driver's seat and a woman in the passenger's seat. Police said...

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The US Secret Service is seeking a driver who killed one pedestrian and injured at least two others while fleeing a police traffic stop near the National Mall in Washington DC. The shocking incident occurred shortly before 1.30pm on Wednesday, when uniformed Secret Service agents attempted to pull over a vehicle near 17th Street NW and Constitution Avenue NW, an agency spokesman told DailyMail.com. Lt. Paul Mayhair of the Secret Service Uniformed Division said federal agents with the division tried to pull over the vehicle after spotting its expired registration. 'The suspect indicated that they would stop the vehicle, but...

Copied from video description: Allen, Texas — On May 6, 2023, an Allen Police Officer speaking to a mother and her two kids heard off more than 10 gunshots in the distance, at the Allen Premium Outlets mall. The officer calls in the shots fired over the radio and another round of gunfire is heard. The officer grabs his weapon and tells shoppers to get down. The officer runs across the outlet mall for approximately two-to-three minutes, and multiple rounds of gunfire are heard throughout this time. The video was edited by the department to blur out the faces of...

A GMA reporter covering San Francisco's Westfield Mall closure has admitted his bosses told him not to appear live from fentanyl-ravaged downtown early in the morning because it was 'too dangerous'. Chief national news correspondent Matt Gutman told viewers he had been advised against appearing live from Union Square or the mall for ABC's 4am Good Morning America segment on Thursday. The veteran broadcaster instead reported on the latest in a long series of downtown retail closures from a separate part of the west coast 'zombie city'. 'It is worth mentioning that we are not at Union Square or the...

AT&T has announced that it is shuttering its flagship store in downtown San Francisco in yet another blow to the city's struggling retail sector. The store at 1 Powell Street in the city's Union Square shopping district is one of the largest in the country and will close on August 1, a spokesperson confirmed. It is the latest episode in San Francisco's retail apocalypse, which has seen numerous high street retailers abandon the city's downtown area amid rising theft and homelessness, which has also driven away customers. But the closure is also part of a wider trend for the telecommunications...

Every city has exactly as much crime as its voters are willing to tolerate.The voters of San Francisco sure are willing to tolerate a very large amount of it.Check out this report from ABC News:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7at8A2NdRM

As Beege Welborn pointed out earlier this week, the owners of Westfield Mall in downtown San Francisco have announced that they’ll be giving the property over to the lender. The mall had already lost Nordstoms last month and this week the Cinemark movie theater also announce it was closing. In fact, today is the theater’s last day.The Cinemark movie theater complex sent an email to its customers announcing its final films would play Thursday, and the complex would close on Friday.In a statement to The Standard, Cinemark confirmed the decision to permanently close the Century San Francisco Centre 9 and...

The Westfield mall used to be the beating retail heart of San Francisco. Westfield stopped paying the mortgage on this shopping mall .. Foot traffic has plunged ... life becomes untenable for some residents. They leave, like some did in the pandemic, or they live in RVs or on the street. ... the cracks are beginning to show. One of the biggest fissures so far was.. the news that Westfield stopped paying its $558 million mortgage and is surrendering its namesake shopping mall to lenders. This is the biggest mall in San Francisco. When tourists come to experience this famous...

San Francisco's struggling downtown has been dealt another blow with the news that Westfield is abandoning its massive mall - the biggest in the city - amid a plunge in sales sparked by the pandemic. Westfield has stopped making payments on a $558 million loan, and is handing it back to their lender, who will appoint a receiver. It will remain open for now. The decision is sparked in large part by the decision from Nordstrom, the mall's anchor tenant, to close in August. Last month, Westfield blamed 'unsafe conditions' and 'lack of enforcement against rampant criminal activity' in part...

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Sixty-year-old Leonor Rodriguez never pulled the trigger when a man was shot in the parking lot of a west Miami-Dade mall Thursday, but she faced an attempted murder charge just the same, according to police. That’s because police say Rodriguez encouraged the suspect, whom police were still looking for Friday, to shoot the man because she was “irate” over “vulgar statements” the victim made to her during an altercation in the Midway Crossings parking lot. The shooting happened just after 12:30 p.m. outside the half-century-old mall, once- and perhaps better known as the “Mall of the...

Steven Spainhouer rushed to Allen Premium Outlets — a shopping center in Allen, a Dallas-Fort Worth suburb, where the shooting happened — when his son called just after 3:30 p.m. local time and said he had heard gunfire. Just one problem… According to the Allen Police Department, Spainhouer is a total fraud. Spainhouer thought that he could make statements that would make him a material witness to mass murder and that they wouldn’t want to talk to him or investigate his claims. When Allen PD caught up with Spainhouer to discuss what he saw, it was determined that Spainhouer’s statements...

Members of several Texas groups representing people of color on Monday demanded that authorities quickly acknowledge whether they believe the neo-Nazi who killed eight people at a Dallas-area mall over a week ago was racially motivated in choosing his victims. [Allen, TX, is 19% Asian]

Journal entries apparently written by Texas mall shooter Mauricio Garcia detail his hatred toward women and several races, including his own Hispanic background, and a perverse devotion to the “Aryan” race. Over a hundred pages of the handwritten diary were posted as pictures alongside ID cards, snaps of Garcia with Hooters waitresses, his guns and racist tattoos on a since-deleted profile on a Russian social media site viewed by The Post. The demented rants include messages supporting Nazism and reminiscing about when he “became a full blown white supremacist.” “Don’t they care about the future of their race,” the 33-year-old...

A man shot innocent victims outside a shopping mall. The attacker was killed by an off-duty policeman who happened to be nearby. We’re hearing all kinds of claims about what we should do to be safer. Let’s look at each of those claims one at a time. It is hard to make things better, and easy to make them worse.

The 33-year-old Latino male who murdered several people in Texas on Saturday at the Allen Premium Outlets was an avowed neo-Nazi who praised the transgender terrorist who murdered several people at a Christian school in Nashville in late March. The killer, whom The Daily Wire is not naming due to company policy about depriving mass killers of the notoriety they often seek, had a social media account on the Russian social media site Odnoklassniki. The account, which was first reported on by The New York Times and later identified by researchers at another online publication, appears to have been created...

Texas mall gunman Mauricio Garcia appeared to be casing his target for weeks, attacking when it was busiest — after railing online against Jews, women and minorities while noting his own mental-health slide. Garcia, 33, shared more than two dozen photos of the Allen Premium Outlets on extremist forums in the weeks leading up to his mass shooting, seemingly determining what would be the most packed time at the mall to unleash the greatest carnage, NBC reported. … In addition to the disturbing snaps, Garcia shared several posts targeting Jewish people, women and racial minorities on the Russian social-networking platform...

Dallas Stars Head Coach Peter DeBoer, whose team is currently competing in the NHL playoffs, reacted to the shooting at a Dallas area mall that left at least eight people dead over the weekend, saying, “Somebody has to have some answers for it.” “I don’t pretend to know the answer on how to fix it, but it’s too great a country [with] too many intelligent people not to do something about it,” DeBoer said in a pregame press conference on Sunday.