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Old 11-23-2021, 08:10 PM
 
Location: Silicon Valley
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The police won't do anything until some thug walks off with the Golden Gate bridge. Seriously, I get that the DA won't prosecute, so just go in the back of the precinct, find and dust off the old nightsticks and just start beating these thieves until they can no longer walk well enough to rob more places.
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Old 11-24-2021, 01:56 AM
 
Location: San Francisco, CA
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Did you even read the article? That video wasn't about the article. The article was about a tweet in reference to an story by the SF Chronicle.
No, I clicked on the link and a video started playing at the top of the page. Is Fox News so bad they can't even embed the right video into the webpage?!

Anyway, I just read it. I would say I'm surprised the Chron dared tweet something so stupid, but I'm not. I keep up on local/regional politics, and this sort of insanity comes out of the mouths of "progressive" politicians on a regular basis.
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Old 11-24-2021, 04:11 AM
 
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Oh good you're focusing on semantics now because that's what is important. I guess "looters" is not woke enough for you. Sorry, "flash robbers" LOL
Come on, we all know the correct woke term is reparations.
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Old 11-24-2021, 06:34 AM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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again with 'woke'....who told you guys that was a thing? Im just dying to know because only far right people ever use that word.
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Old 11-24-2021, 07:34 AM
 
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again with 'woke'....who told you guys that was a thing? Im just dying to know because only far right people ever use that word.
I guess these individuals didn’t get the memo to no longer use the terminology of “woke” due to conservatives mocking the “woke.”


https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-amer...fy-as-woke?amp

You may not like the term, but “wokeness” is a real world view and left leaning individuals more align with this worldview.

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/01/76338...utlook-on-race

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Old 11-24-2021, 09:01 AM
 
Location: On the water.
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The Wiki blurb below dates from many years back. This sort of theft is not new. Their citations and references are from 2011 and back to early 1990’s. With the rise of social media, and internet reselling, expect more and more.

Note that at the time of this Wiki placement, California wasn’t even on the list of examples. So now we take a turn in the history.



A flash rob, also known as a multiple offender crime or flash mob robbery, is an organized form of theft in which a group of participants enter a retail shop or convenience store en masse and steal goods and other items.[1][2][3] Typically, store workers and employees in these cases quickly become overwhelmed by the large number of participants and are therefore unable to stop the theft.[4][5]



Flash robs operate using speed and sheer numbers in order to intimidate any resistance and complete the act before police can respond. While often viewed as a form of theft or looting (the illegal taking of items), these crimes more closely fit the definition of robbery because the large crowd creates an implied threat of violence should employees or bystanders attempt to intervene. Many investigations into these robberies have shown that they are planned ahead of time using social media, and the participants do not all necessarily know each other personally.



Flash robs have occurred in places such as Chicago, Illinois[9] Portland, Oregon,[10] Houston, Texas,[11] and Jacksonville, Florida, and Germantown, Maryland.[2][12]



In Chile this kind of robbery is known as "turbazo".[8]



Brazil has seen mass flash robberies since at least the early 1990s. In a phenomenon known as arrastão (trawling), mobs will steal money, telephone, watches, rings, bags and sometimes even victim’s clothing. The most infamous case of trawling took place on 18 October 1992, on Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro, when hundreds of young Afro-Brazilians ran together in a mass to rob beach goers.[13][14]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_rob

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Old 11-24-2021, 09:09 AM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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No, I clicked on the link and a video started playing at the top of the page. Is Fox News so bad they can't even embed the right video into the webpage?!

Anyway, I just read it. I would say I'm surprised the Chron dared tweet something so stupid, but I'm not. I keep up on local/regional politics, and this sort of insanity comes out of the mouths of "progressive" politicians on a regular basis.
A lot of outlets do that including "regular media"; embed a short video to a story on the same or similar subject.
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Old 11-24-2021, 09:13 AM
 
Location: On the water.
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Oh good you're focusing on semantics now because that's what is important. I guess "looters" is not woke enough for you. Sorry, "flash robbers" LOL
Well, “looting” is classified differently by law enforcement … generally associated with protest events and disasters. That IS a meaningful distinction. Yes.
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Old 11-24-2021, 09:15 AM
 
Location: On the water.
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Another poster focused solely on the messenger rather than the message...... Oy
Pretty interesting (and revealing) that you choose to ridicule the point made: that political referencing serves no worthy purpose in pursuit of solution … in fact, it further divides society.
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Old 11-24-2021, 09:18 AM
 
Location: On the water.
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Is crime tourism a thing out in San Francisco now? My nephew is visiting for Thanksgiving and knows of people flying out to the Bay area on days off to commit thefts/robberies.
Well, I’m gonna call *obvious* bs on “ flying out to the Bay area on days off to commit thefts/robberies. Though it is (almost) certainly tounge-in-cheek sarcasm … it’s worth calling out because there are so many brain-dead who will re-tell this into a new myth.
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