WATCH: Suspect with Pickaxe Exits L.A. Store with Basket of Liquor, Police Say
A suspect carrying a pickaxe entered a Los Angeles Rite Aid store Wednesday and reportedly left with a basket of liquor, authorities told Fox News on Thursday.
Customers inside the Venice Beach store watched the woman come in the store with the tool at approximately 3:00 p.m., police noted.
Fox 11 cited authorities and reported she allegedly threatened employees when they tried to take her basket of merchandise.
“As of Thursday morning, police were still searching for the pickaxe-wielding suspect. No one was hurt in the bizarre incident,” the Fox 11 article read.
Video footage showed the suspect walking past customers entering the store with the pickaxe slung over her shoulder. At one point, she appeared to drag her basket on the floor, then peruse products on display:
Additional footage shared online appeared to show employees speaking to her:
Earlier this month, a Los Angeles Police Department detective warned people not to visit the city while smash-and-grab and follow-home robberies surged in the area, Fox 11 reported:
Jamie McBride is also the director of the Los Angeles Police Protective League. In an appearance on FOX News Monday, McBride told anchors that he’s, “telling people ‘don’t visit because we don’t think we can keep you safe right now,'” comparing Los Angeles to the movie The Purge, “but instead of 24 hours to commit your crime, they have 365 days.”
McBride blamed the crime surge on things like Proposition 47, which changed sentencing guidelines, as well as the state’s zero-bail policy, which he said puts criminals back on the street, “faster than the officers can finish the report.”
Meanwhile, California Democrats have recently changed their stance, saying the crime surge must end and police were needed to accomplish the task.
“It’s time that the reign of criminals who are destroying our city, it is time for it to come to an end,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed stated when announcing updated public safety measures.
“And it comes to an end when we take the steps to be more aggressive with law enforcement … and less tolerant of all the bullshit that has destroyed our city,” she added.
Census: 1% of California’s Population Moved Out of the State in 2021
California lost one percent of its population over the last year as residents fled for other states, the United States Census Bureau revealed this week.
While California’s population stands at more than 39.5 million, a record high, the state lost more than 367,000 residents over the last year. The state’s population decline is among the largest in the nation.
“In 2021, 20 states and the District of Columbia lost residents via net domestic migration. Largest domestic migration losses were in California (-367,299), New York (-352,185), and Illinois (-122,460),” Census Bureau experts wrote.
In addition, blue states that repeatedly enforced mask mandates, vaccine requirements, and lockdowns over the past year lost population to red states that eliminated the policies, Breitbart News reported.
Meanwhile, Florida, Texas, and Arizona experienced the most growth thanks to domestic migration:
Out of the top 10 states and territories with the most population decline from July 2020 to July 2021, eight are run by either Democrat legislatures or Democrat governors, or both. Of the top 10 states with the most population growth in the last year, nine are run by Republican governors and Republican-majority legislatures.
Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area lost some of their populations amid the coronavirus pandemic, recent data found, according to the Associated Press (AP).
In May, the state reported its first annual population decline when officials said it lost 182,083 people last year. Most recently, the state reported losing 173,000 people between July 1st of last year and July 1st of this year.
The report continued:
The latest estimate confirms California’s once seemingly boundless population growth has ended. It also shows that, for the first time ever, Los Angeles County and the nine counties surrounding the San Francisco Bay simultaneously lost population in the same year. Together, those two areas account for more than 44% of the state’s nearly 40 million residents and have some of the most expensive housing prices in the nation.
Californians were leaving the state to search for affordable housing, better schools, and a more rural lifestyle. A significant percentage of them chose Austin, Texas, Breitbart News reported in June.
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