Braveheart 7-Eleven shopkeepers could face action for defending their shop against an armed thug
If you are a career criminal and looking to prosper without fear of the law, California is the place to migrate to. There is perhaps no other place in the U.S. or even in the world, where criminals can flourish with such impunity.
Videos of criminals ambling across departmental stores casually picking items from shelves and leaving without paying no longer shock anyone. The employees and owners are usually left with no option but to stand and stare, because these thieves are usually armed and dangerous.
It's probably not uncommon for thugs to assign themselves shops that they regularly and repeatedly target.
This may seem darkly comedic but it is actually most heartbreaking. It takes hard-earned money to set up a shop and procure products to be sold. Casual pilferage is the destruction of livelihoods.
The psychological trauma of being repeatedly robbed and potentially being a victim of violence is equally serious.
The situation is so bad that law enforcement officials no longer bother to intervene. Even if they do intervene, liberal pro-crime judges release the thugs back on the streets where they are free to engage in criminal behavior
Recently another video of another such shop being robbed gained fame on social media. The difference in this video was the shopkeepers fought back.
The incident occurred at a 7-Eleven outlet in Stockton, California back in July.
In the video, a masked thug is seen rummaging through shelves in the shop, picking tobacco products and tossing them into a large garbage bin.
The employee at the shop is heard trying to reason with the thug and warns him that a call will be made to law enforcement officials.
The person video recording the incident urges the shopkeeper not to intervene.
“Just let him go. There ain’t nothing you can do. They’re not going to do nothing,” he says before asking if the owner has insurance.
As the robber tries to leave, a store employee grabs his arms and attempts to restrain him.
The thief is heard threatening to shoot the employees at the shop.
Next, the Sikh owner of the shop rushes towards the thug armed with a stick and repeatedly wallops him, delivering more than 20 blows.
The thug seems stunned to receive punishment, that too in California where such behavior is rewarded.
“That’s called whoopin’ your a–! Whoop his a–! Get him!" is what the person making the video is heard saying.
Criminals being punished is a rare sight in California, a bit of shock from bystanders is natural.
The rogue finally begs to be let go and the shopkeeper and his assistant comply. They do not call the cops but let him go, perhaps hoping their a lesson has been learned.
But this didn’t end there; while walking out, the thief also asked for a soda for the road.
To this, the bystander says: “What kind of s*** you telling me? You do this s*** and you want a soda? No, no, no. Get the f*** out, man."
In a functioning society, the shop owners and their employees would have been felicitated for rising against lawless elements.
There are two reasons for this.
Firstly, they were doing the job that taxpayers pay law enforcement to do.
Secondly, by giving the thugs his deserved comeuppance, they probably deterred him from repeating a similar offense.
But in California, things don’t quite operate that way.
KCRA-TV reported that Stockton police said they are investigating the “assault of a 7-Eleven robbery suspect by two workers.”
Police said that on July 28 at 3:41 a.m., a 7-Eleven worker reported the suspect threatening to shoot the clerk if he intervened and stealing several packs of cigarettes in a large garbage bag before fleeing.
On July 29 at 12:27 a.m., a 7-Eleven worker reported the suspect demanding money at the store while simulating that he had a handgun. When the worker didn’t comply, the suspect grabbed food items and put them in a garbage bag and fled, again.
At some point later in the morning, the thug is believed to have returned to the store, police said but this time, the employees took matters into their hands. The walloping emanated out of frustration and fury that is typical when the common man faces repeated experiences of injustice.
The Stockton police said they were unaware at the time of that attempted robbery and assault.
But around 3:45 a.m., police joined members of the fire department in assisting a man who was requesting medical aid because of pain in his leg and shoulder.
The man, who police now believe was the suspected 7-Eleven robber, had said he did not know if he was assaulted.
Stockton police said witness video of the 7-Eleven robbery and assault has now linked all the investigations.
They said that after their investigation concludes, they will forward the findings to the San Joaquin County district attorney for review.
Another interesting fact is that the Stockton Police Station is located across the road from where the shop is located. Yet there seemed to be no fear in the thug’s mind as he targeted the same shop on three occasions within a short period.
This is very revealing about the state of affairs in California.
So what could the outcome be?
A CBS report and even the man who made the video seem to be alleging shopkeepers went overboard with their punishment of the thug.
The report also mentions violations of the 7-Eleven policy and possible breaking of the law.
Don’t be too surprised if the shopkeepers are portrayed as villains.
Don’t be stunned if the shopkeepers are charged with assault and even a hate crime because the thug happens to be black.
The criminal welfare system in California will simply not allow violence against robbers.
In time, don’t be too surprised if California defunds the police, schools, and hospitals, and transfers all of the funds to their criminal welfare system.
Perhaps they build seven-star prisons for all their criminals with spas, IMAX cinemas, gourmet cuisine, etc.
The 'elites' in California have no reason to fear from these thugs. They live in gated properties protected by armed bodyguards, and they travel in bombproof vehicles.
They can virtue signal all day while regular people such as the 7-Eleven outlet employees suffer.
The silver lining for the shopkeepers, if they are charged, is that they will belong to the criminal class and hence will be protected by the system.
Perhaps that is the last resort left for citizens, to take the law into their hands.
When matters go haywire it is worth revisiting the fundamentals.
Democracy is meaningless unless there is the maintenance of law and order.
When the system of law and order devolves into a system that focuses on the interest of criminals, it gives rise to mobs and vigilantes.
The disparity in the application of law is now a common occurrence across the U.S., the victims of this disparity range from the 7-Eleven shopkeepers to President Donald Trump.
This is the slow but certain death of American democracy.
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Police Investigate Sikh 7-Eleven Workers Who Resisted Robber
If your store is being robbed over and over again, the police can't help.
In a pro-crime system, committing crimes isn’t a crime, but resisting criminals is the only real crime.
The video of 7-Eleven Sikh workers standing up and fighting back against a criminal who was boldly looting the store even as they were being told that they should shut up and take it has gone viral.
And now the police are investigating the workers for stopping a criminal.
Here comes the investigation.
Stockton police said they are investigating the assault of a 7-Eleven robbery suspect by two workers and say the suspected thief is believed to have robbed the store two other times within the same 24-hour period.
Video of the July 29 assault has gained national attention. In the more than five-minute clip, a man can be seen emptying shelves of cigarettes and other products from the store’s shelves before the clerks step in to stop him. The clip shows one of the clerks pinning the man down while another beats the would-be thief with what appears to be a pole.
Stockton police said in an update Saturday that they were aware of two other reports of early morning robberies at the 7-Eleven location involving the same suspected thief, one on July 28 and another on July 29.
Police said that on July 28 at 3:41 a.m., a 7-Eleven worker reported the suspect going behind the counter and threatening to shoot the clerk if he intervened. The suspect then took several packs of cigarettes in a large garbage bag before fleeing.
On July 29 at 12:27 a.m., a 7-Eleven worker reported the suspect demanding money at the store while simulating that he had a handgun. When the worker didn’t comply, the suspect grabbed food items and put them in a garbage bag before leaving, police said.
At some point later in the morning, the man is believed to have returned to the store, police said. That’s when the beating captured in the viral video took place.
They said that after their investigation concludes, they will forward the findings to the San Joaquin County district attorney for review.
If your store is being robbed over and over again, the police can’t help, but if you stand up to the criminal, suddenly there’s an investigation. But when your store is being robbed over and over again, there’s no investigation.
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WATCH: Mass Looting of Gucci at L.A.’s Century City Mall
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 that was caught on video, according to the Los Angeles Police Department and video of the incident.
A group of at least nine men could be seen sprinting out of the store around 3:10 p.m. Monday in video posted to Twitter. The LAPD confirmed that there was a robbery at a store at Westfield Century City mall. It was not immediately clear if the men were armed or if anyone was injured.
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Bystanders looked on and took video, while a lone security guard walked helplessly behind the men as they sprinted away, the video shows. A suited man who appeared to work for Gucci could be heard on the phone calling the police.
The Century City mall is in the heart of west Los Angeles, near the Fox studio lot and surrounded by office complexes housing Hollywood’s top agents and entertainment lawyers.
Mass looting events have been an increasing problem in many American cities, ever since the Black Lives Matter riots in 2020. In November 2021, a mob looted stores in San Francisco’s Union Square, reviving the national trend. A similar mob looted stores in L.A., but all of the perpetrators who were arrested were let go. Another mob looted a luxury store in Malibu last year.
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Residents of L.A.’s Watts Urged to Avoid Large Gatherings Due to Shootings
Residents of Watts, a predominantly Latino and black neighborhood in south-central Los Angeles, are being discouraged from attending large gatherings for the rest of 2023 due to the recent surge of drive-by and mass shootings in the area.
The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday:
Leaders have now called on Watts residents not to congregate in large groups for the rest of 2023.
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The impassioned calls for “unity within the community” arrived on the heels of two shootings that killed two and injured nine near the Imperial Courts and Jordan Downs public housing projects, according to LAPD Deputy Chief Emada Tingirides. She told The Times that law enforcement agencies were investigating the recent shootings.
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Attendees were told during Tuesday’s briefing that both of the incidents involved lone gunmen. Disrespectful posts on social media likely fueled some of the shootings, which Rejón says is a trend that has picked up in other major cities across the country in recent years. He blames social media and online “rumor mills” that help disrespectful messages feed into a larger conflict.
The ongoing violence comes amid calls by newly-installed Mayor Karen Bass to hire 1,000 new Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers to bring the force back to 10,000 cops. Her predecessor, Mayor Eric Garcetti, vowed to cut $150 million from the LAPD during the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, and to redistribute the funding to “communities of color.”
When Breitbart News asked Garcetti whether that would make such communities unsafe, he denied that it would. He also decried “systemic racism,” which he defined, when asked, as “racism that’s built into systems.” He is now U.S. Ambassador to India.
Crime has surged in many American cities in recent years, over a period that has coincided with the election of radical left-wing prosecutors, many of them backed by billionaire Democratic Party patron George Soros, such as Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón. Gascón has focused on reducing criminal penalties for violent felons, rather than reducing crime.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the new biography, Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order’. He is also the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Meanwhile, Johnson has busied himself with looking to put $25 million in city funds to house illegal aliens, and turning several of the city’s schools and colleges into shelters for illegal aliens. Even as up to 50 Chicagoans have been shot every weekend since he took office.
Chicago Police Finally Make Large Number of Arrests During Teen Mass Rampage
For the last several years, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) has engaged in a policy of “hands-off” as huge groups of hundreds of teens and young adults rampage through neighborhoods looting stores, vandalizing cars, fighting with each other, and even shooting people. But on Sunday, police reversed that policy and actually made dozens of arrests during one such mob scene.
Last weekend, the CPD made about 40 arrests as a large group of teens again targeted an area along Roosevelt Road in the city’s South Loop business district.
It was the largest number of arrests since 61 were arrested during a mob rampage in July of 2021, according to CWB Chicago.
Still, a mere 40 arrests made only a small dent in the mob of some 400 teens carousing through the area and totally trashing a 7-Eleven convenience store in the process.
Video shows the scene at the store:
According to NBC 5, most were charged with misdemeanors and immediately released, though a select few were hit with gun charges.
But, the CPD certainly made an about-face. In fact, according to CBS News, several CPD supervisors were heard encouraging officers to make arrests.
“Let’s be clear – for these kids are running in the street, mass arrest. Lock them up,” a supervisor was heard saying, CBS added.
“If you’re an officer, you should be putting hands on people and arresting them right now – not watching them walk by you,” the supervisor reportedly added.
Interim Chicago Police Supt. Fred Waller stood by the arrests.
“Our posture has been tolerant, and usually when we say that it’s curfew and we ask them to disperse, they do,” Waller said. “Yesterday, they, so to speak, crossed the line.”
Waller also said the arrests were for cause, not random.
“The arrests are a result of the actions. Before we asked them to move, we asked them to go home. It was curfew time, and they did. This time, they refused. They began fighting against each other,” Waller said. “We haven’t arrested people like that, but this group got so out of hand we had no choice.”
Community activists also tried to jump into action ahead of the appearance of the mob of teens. Seeing social media posts encouraging teens to gather in the area, activists say they began contacting businesses to close up and lock down to try and prevent damage to their best ability.
These mobs of teens have been causing havoc in Chicago for several years, now, and little has been done to stop them.
Just in April, a couple suffered injuries as groups of hundreds of teens rioted through the city’s downtown Loop area.
Also in April, two teens were shot by someone seemingly shooting randomly into the crowd of hundreds during four days of teen mob action.
In May, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, a self-professed “progressive,” took office, but has thus far been able to make a dent in the rising crime rates, or put a stop to these mobs of teens terrorizing the city.
In fact, Johnson has scolded anyone critical of the mobs. In April he was heard chastising the media and Chicago’s weary residents for “demonizing” the mobs of teens.
“In no way do I condone the destructive activity we saw in the Loop and lakefront this weekend,” Johnson said after the four days of destruction wrought in April. “It is unacceptable and has no place in our city. However, it is not constructive to demonize youth who have otherwise been starved of opportunities in their own communities.”
Meanwhile, Johnson has busied himself with looking to put $25 million in city funds to house illegal aliens, and turning several of the city’s schools and colleges into shelters for illegal aliens. Even as up to 50 Chicagoans have been shot every weekend since he took office.
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Democrat City Crime Rise: Six Killed in D.C. Shootings on Saturday
Six individuals were killed on Saturday alone in Washington, DC, as crime in the district continues to bubble over in the Democrat-controlled city.
The first shooting occurred in the early morning hours on Saturday. According to acting Chief Pamela Smith, who provided an update on the shooting investigation at the 2500 block of Ontario Road, Northwest, two individuals were pronounced dead on the scene, and another was transported to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Deeming it “another act of senseless violence,” Smith asked anyone who saw or heard anything related to the shooting to contact the Metropolitan Police Department.
Also on Saturday Smith provided an update on another shooting. Police found a victim at 12th and U streets NW after responding to the sound of gunshots. That victim was hospitalized.
Just hours after that, authorities found a man fatally “shot steps away in the 1200 block of U Street,” according to the Washington Post:
Later that night, police responded to another bout of violence, resulting in three individuals fatally shot in the Anacostia area. Two more were wounded.
“At approximately eight o’clock p.m. tonight our officers responded to the sounds of gunshot here in the 1600 block of Good Hope Road SE,” Smith said. “When the officers arrived. They found five individuals who were injured by gunfire.”
“What I have to say tonight is this is very disturbing. Very, very disturbing. And we’re asking you, the community, to please provide us with any information that you may have with regards to this incident tonight. We realize that there may be others who may have been injured tonight. We’re asking you to come forward. Speak to our detectives here at the Metropolitan Police Department,” Smith pleaded, adding, “Let me be clear: this gun violence has to stop.”
The Post spoke to one woman who admitted she has become calloused to the crime in her area.
“I got off the train and didn’t even pay attention to the crime tape because it’s like city decoration to me,” the woman, Anika Bradford, said. The Post added that “Bradford said gun violence is commonplace in her Southeast Washington neighborhood and, in 2021, she lost her 28-year-old cousin in a shooting.”
“It’s sad, I’m immune to death at this point,” the D.C. resident added.
According to reports, D.C. has reported over 150 homicides this year alone, and the D.C. Police Department’s social media page shines a light on an array of other crimes that have taken place in the city over the past few days, including robberies and assaults:
“This kind of gun violence is not acceptable in the District of Columbia. This is not a war zone. We want our residents to feel safe,” Smith added during one of the weekend press conferences, urging the community to step up and come forward with any information to help solve these crimes.
The uptick in violence comes as Americans in other big, crime-ridden cities, such as Seattle, consider moving due to crime as well as rising costs.
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