Posted on 01/05/2024 12:24:07 PM PST by Twotone
A group of more than 100 looters crashed a car into a bakery near Los Angeles and trashed the store after an illegal street takeover in the dead of night on Tuesday.
The street takeover began around 3 a.m., and the group ended up at Ruben’s Bakery & Mexican Food about a mile away in Compton.
Someone backed a white Kia through the front doors of the bakery, ramming it into the store twice as a large group looters crowded around nearby, security footage shows.
Once inside, the looters, wearing masks or pulling their hoods over their faces, can be seen grabbing as much as they can from the store, jumping on counters and pushing past each other before fleeing. Some go straight for the cash register.
At one point, a woman appeared to try to stop the crowd from looting the store to no avail.
Photos from the aftermath show the store ransacked with open food containers lying on the ground. A metal grated window appears to have been destroyed by the car, and shattered glass lies on the ground as well. The damage amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Among the items stolen were meat scales, meat, groceries, and lotto tickets, according to Captain Melissa Ramirez of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department.
Just before the looting incident, police had been called twice about a car on fire and the street takeover outside the bakery.
No arrests appear to have been made related to the looting so far.
Street takeovers have been an ongoing problem in the Los Angeles area.
On Tuesday night, Compton’s mayor, Emma Sharif, a Democrat, urged the city council to approve an ordinance that would result in more citations for street takeovers.
“Ensuring the safety of businesses and residents in our city is our top priority,” Sharif said at the council meeting. “We need to vote on this so that we can actually start implementing the changes that’s been made in the policy.”
Compton residents spoke at the city council meeting as well, expressing their frustration with how often street takeovers occur, which often involve fires.
“So sick and tired of hearing this crap every single day,” one woman said.
In some cases, street takeovers can be deadly. In December 2022, a 27-year-old man was on a walk with his high school sweetheart when he was killed by a driver fleeing a street takeover nearby, police said.
Retail theft has also been a problem plaguing the Los Angeles area, especially organized mobs of thieves who descend on stores.
And not 1 arrest I’m sure.
Thanks to BLM, George Floyd and Obama for street takeovers and ending mass incarceration. Ain’t restorative justice great?
Hmm...straight outta Compton. I’d been told by a local that the place has experienced a Great Replacement and the looks of that crowd appear to bear it out. Ah, that spicy new generation!
Putting people in jail is mean.
Democrats - they’ll get passes.
Democrats - they’ll get passes. Or maybe a slap on the wrist. Bakery should have had stronger glass (blame the victim - it’s the dem goon way)
S.W.A.
Stealing lottery tickets will be the next Big Thing.
That will be the straw that breaks California's back and forces them to do something.
-PJ
Loot? Shoot!
Trying to get bread for their kids. It’s rather interesting how cities have become crime cesspools with politicians and their friends only getting protection.
Clown car?
No problem. Now if they’d been taking selfies in the US Capitol...
An AA-12 in hand is worth an entire police station down the road.
Need more Korean bakers.
Compton, oh the irony.
I’m surprised NWA isn’t batching because they are mainstream now. Heck, Ice T played a cop on TV and married a trophy white woman.
Bitching
I would really like to see 5 or 6 residents just start shooting into the crowd of looters. Then stop and melt away. The gloves need to come off. You want to live with no rules? You want no police? You want anarchy? Well ... you’re really not going to like it.
No question about it. We can’t just turn into Somalia.
We should adopt a policy: “You loot… we shoot.”
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