Thread by @crabcrawler1

I could probably fill up a thread with shoplifting/robbery crimes

(November 2021) "Thieves in Connecticut load up their cars with stolen merchandise. You can hear an employee warning another not to intervene because he will get fired." -- via twitter.com/libsoftiktok/

(May 2022) "The staff of a jewelry store in #California resists the armed robbers with a hammer and manages to get them out of the store!" -- via twitter.com/ProtestNews_EN/

(March 2022) "Owner of Luxury Jewels of Beverly Hills tells me the smash and grabbers got away with 3 to 5 million in stolen watches and necklaces" -- via twitter.com/RobertNBCLA/

(Feb. 2022) "Thieves make off with $25K in merchandise from Atlanta boutique clothing store" fox5atlanta.com/news/thieves-m…

(March 2022) "A bizarre and brazen theft that turned into a food fight at a #SanFrancisco Walgreens was captured on video." -- via twitter.com/Raw_News1st/

(May 2022) "Another Walgreens in San Francisco is hit by looters. Walgreens already closed 5 locations in San Francisco due to theft." -- via twitter.com/libsoftiktok

(March 2022) "Tonight in Miami. A man robs a Walgreens to feed his family" -- via twitter.com/libsoftiktok

(Dec. 2021) "A woman robs a Rite Aid near Venice Beach in L.A. armed with a pick axe" -- via twitter.com/libsoftiktok/

(Feb. 2022) "When shoplifting in San Francisco, make sure to keep stepping on the Covid safe space circle so you will remain safe and protected…" -- via twitter.com/dpl_3

(Jan. 2022) "Within 12 minutes of stepping foot into the Downtown Seattle Target, I saw security confront two shoplifters. One staff member told me this happens about every ten minutes in the store. The shelves are empty because of the shoplifting." -- via twitter.com/jasonrantz

(Nov. 2021) Scoring cigarettes by the bucketload at a Walgreens in Chicago (via twitter.com/WindyCityWxMan)