It wasn’t long ago that The Horn News brought you video of a looter walking out of a San Francisco Walgreens in broad daylight with a bag with of stolen goods.
Since then, the looting has only gotten worse.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s city — where her representative district lies — is still a burning hotbed for rampant crime.
A viral video was making its rounds on social media that saw at least nine suspects ransacking a Neiman Marcus luxury store.
According to multiple sources, police say that the thieves smashed the display cases open before ditching the store with handfuls of designer bags.
Critics note that this follows a trend of disturbing shoplifting that is killing San Francisco businesses.
And the violent “heist” was all captured on cellphone footage.
Group dashes out of San Francisco Neiman Marcus store after handbag robbery and flee in awaiting getaway cars https://t.co/gAL2VriW78 pic.twitter.com/tpxMYYhLvh
— KTVU (@KTVU) July 6, 2021
According to reports, a getaway car carried the robbers away from the scene.
But there’s more bad news from Pelosi’s city. In a period of five years, 17 Walgreens stores have been shut down due to shoplifting.
And just last week, Target stores in San Francisco announced that they had to close at 6 p.m. instead of 10 p.m. due to the rampant looting.
So not only are thefts leading to a loss of revenue for the store, but its employees also aren’t able to work the hours they need to put food on the table.
And beyond the stores, Kron 4 reports that tourists have become a target thieves a well. Experts close to the alarming waves of theft claim that the brazen stealing is a small part of a much larger crime ring.
A member of California’s Retail Association, Rachel Michelin, explained that the juvenile and homeless are preyed upon by organized criminals, and given money to loot stores en masse.
“They’ll pay them $100 to go in a steal items,” she said, “and then they end up selling the items and using the funding for really bad thing.”
“Human trafficking, weapons, those types of things.”
Sounds like serious business.
And what is Pelosi doing?
Well… we’re not sure.
But she likes expensive ice cream!
The Horn editorial team