{"id":1054762,"date":"2021-11-25T11:44:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T16:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1054762"},"modified":"2021-11-25T11:44:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T16:44:19","slug":"thieves-target-l-a-area-nordstrom-in-another-smash-and-grab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thieves-target-l-a-area-nordstrom-in-another-smash-and-grab\/","title":{"rendered":"Thieves Target L.A.-Area Nordstrom In Another \u2018Smash And Grab\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthieves-target-l-a-area-nordstrom-in-another-smash-and-grab%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1054762&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A group of thieves hit a Nordstrom store in the Los Angeles area on Wednesday evening, stealing at least eight luxury handbags and assaulting a guard before making a clean getaway.<\/p>\n<p>Five people, one wearing an orange wig, entered the store in Canoga Park just before 7 p.m. and sprayed a security guard with \u201c\u201dsome kind of chemical\u201d as terrified shoppers fled, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10241805\/LA-Nordstrom-robbed-looting-gang.html\">according<\/a> to the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thieves sped off and managed to escape with thousands of dollars worth of handbags despite multiple police cruisers, as well as fire trucks and ambulances, responding to the raid,\u201d said the Mail.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/dozens-of-looters-storm-a-california-nordstrom-employees-pepper-sprayed-physically-assaulted\">rash<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/mobs-rob-three-san-francisco-area-stores-in-three-days\">flash thefts<\/a> have occurred across California in San Jose, Santana Row, Hayward, and Walnut Creek. In each, waves of thieves \u2014 in one instance more than 100 \u2014 stormed into stores and stole as much as they could carry. Thieves have stolen tens of thousands of dollars worth of luxury goods, but often face little consequence amid soft misdemeanor theft laws passed in 2014 by voters in the Democrat-run state.<\/p>\n<p>But the robbers aren\u2019t acting alone. \u201cLaw enforcement say that mercenary thieves are being recruited for up to $1,000 to steal the expensive goods which are then shipped across state lines and sold on the internet. The sophisticated method makes it harder for cops to track the criminals,\u201d said the Mail.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a debate has broken out about what to call the thefts.<\/p>\n<p>Police and law enforcement \u201cexperts\u201d in California are saying that the recent surge of smash-and-grab thefts in California shouldn\u2019t be called \u201clooting\u201d because that term carries racial connotations.<\/p>\n<p>That has prompted a spokesman for the San Diego Police Department to call the thefts \u201corganized robbery,\u201d according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>The large-scale thefts aren\u2019t considered looting under the California Penal Code, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/retail-theft-smash-and-grab-looting-meaning-bay-area\/11263189\/?ex_cid=TA_KGO_TW&amp;taid=619c56ddc2950300019a02bc&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a> Tuesday by ABC affiliate KGO.&nbsp;\u201cThe penal code defines looting as \u2018theft or burglary \u2026 during a \u2018state of emergency,\u2019 \u2018local emergency,\u2019 or \u2018evacuation order\u2019 resulting from an earthquake, fire, flood, riot or other natural or manmade disaster,\u2019\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the Bay Area grapples with a wave of seemingly organized smash and grab robberies this weekend, policing and journalism analysts are cautioning against the use of the term looting,\u201d Race and Social Justice Reporter Julian Glover said.<\/p>\n<p>But some cops are still using the term. \u201cThe Louis Vuitton store was burglarized and looted. The Burberry in Westfield Mall was burglarized and looted,\u201d said San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott in a press conference to reporters Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>San Jose police spokesman Sgt. Christian Camarillo has taken umbrage with the term. \u201cWe are talking about two incidents, we\u2019re not going to call this looting,\u201d he said of the thefts. \u201cThis is organized robbery. That\u2019s what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Calling the thefts \u201clooting\u201d carries a racist connotation, according to Lorenzo Boyd, a professor of criminal justice and community policing at the University of New Haven and a former police&nbsp;officer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooting is a term that we typically use when people of color or urban dwellers are doing something,\u201d he said, according to the ABC report. \u201cWe tend not to use that term for other people when they do the exact same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of thieves hit a Nordstrom store in the Los Angeles area on Wednesday evening, stealing at least eight luxury handbags and assaulting a guard before making a clean getaway.Five people, one wearing an orange wig, entered the store in Canoga Park just before 7 p.m. and sprayed a security guard with \u201c\u201dsome kind of chemical\u201d as terrified shoppers fled, according to the Daily Mail.\u201cThe thieves sped off and managed to escape with thousands of dollars worth of handbags despite multiple police cruisers, as well as fire trucks and ambulances, responding to the raid,\u201d said the Mail.A rash of flash thefts have occurred across California in San Jose, Santana Row, Hayward, and Walnut Creek. In each, waves of thieves \u2014 in one instance more than 100 \u2014 stormed into stores and stole as much as they could carry. Thieves have stolen tens of thousands of dollars worth of luxury goods, but often face little consequence amid soft misdemeanor theft laws passed in 2014 by voters in the Democrat-run state.But the robbers aren\u2019t acting alone. \u201cLaw enforcement say that mercenary thieves are being recruited for up to $1,000 to steal the expensive goods which are then shipped across state lines and sold on the internet. The sophisticated method makes it harder for cops to track the criminals,\u201d said the Mail.Meanwhile, a debate has broken out about what to call the thefts.Police and law enforcement \u201cexperts\u201d in California are saying that the recent surge of smash-and-grab thefts in California shouldn\u2019t be called \u201clooting\u201d because that term carries racial connotations.That has prompted a spokesman for the San Diego Police Department to call the thefts \u201corganized robbery,\u201d according to a new report.The large-scale thefts aren\u2019t considered looting under the California Penal Code, according to a report Tuesday by ABC affiliate KGO.\u00a0\u201cThe penal code defines looting as \u2018theft or burglary \u2026 during a \u2018state of emergency,\u2019 \u2018local emergency,\u2019 or \u2018evacuation order\u2019 resulting from an earthquake, fire, flood, riot or other natural or manmade disaster,\u2019\u201d the report said.\u201cAs the Bay Area grapples with a wave of seemingly organized smash and grab robberies this weekend, policing and journalism analysts are cautioning against the use of the term looting,\u201d Race and Social Justice Reporter Julian Glover said.But some cops are still using the term. \u201cThe Louis Vuitton store was burglarized and looted. The Burberry in Westfield Mall was burglarized and looted,\u201d said San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott in a press conference to reporters Saturday.San Jose police spokesman Sgt. Christian Camarillo has taken umbrage with the term. \u201cWe are talking about two incidents, we\u2019re not going to call this looting,\u201d he said of the thefts. \u201cThis is organized robbery. That\u2019s what it is.\u201dCalling the thefts \u201clooting\u201d carries a racist connotation, according to Lorenzo Boyd, a professor of criminal justice and community policing at the University of New Haven and a former police\u00a0officer.\u201cLooting is a term that we typically use when people of color or urban dwellers are doing something,\u201d he said, according to the ABC report. \u201cWe tend not to use that term for other people when they do the exact same thing.\u201dThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1054762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1054762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1054762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1054762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}