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Footage shows ‘flash mob’ of looters ransack 7-Eleven in Los Angeles 

 

By David Propper

 

 

New York Post 

August 19, 2022

 

 

A flash mob of more than a dozen people began forming outside a 7-11 after several cars parked in the middle of a busy intersection to do donuts 

 

A “flash mob” of looters were caught on camera ransacking a 7-Eleven in Los Angeles earlier this week — making off with handfuls of cigarettes, snacks and other goods, authorities said.

Video clips released by Los Angeles police show dozens of people, many of them not bothering to hide their faces, grabbing various items as they swarmed the chain store Monday shortly after midnight in the Harbor Gateway section of the city.

Part of the footage even shows the rowdy bunch going behind the counter that was apparently vacated by 7-Eleven employees and flinging items toward a pack of people on the other side.

 Young people from a Los Angeles-area flash mob began looting a 7-11 in the early hours of 15 August, police said

People who began looting a 7-11 on Monday morning were seen taking cigarettes, food, drinks and lotto tickets, with one group even attempting to steal the cashier’s box, police said 

The suspects in the flash-mob robbery were able to avoid police. No arrests have been made.

The Los Angeles Police Department is asking for the public’s help in identifying people who were seen looting a 7-11 after a flash mob formed outside the convenience store over the weekend

Snacks, drinks, cigarettes, lottery tickets and other merchandise were all lifted from the store, which also was vandalized, according to police. Looters also allegedly threw items at store employees.

After exiting the store, the throngs of suspects quickly left the area before cops arrived, police said.

The robberies occurred during a street takeover where drivers flooded and blocked a city intersection with their vehicles from all directions to create a “pit” in the middle of it, police said.

Spectators got out of their cars and watched as drivers started “doing doughnuts,” authorities said.

“The term ‘flash mob’ was first used to describe a large public gathering at which people perform an unusual or seemingly random act and then disperse, typically organized by means of the internet or social media,” the LAPD said in a statement.

“In the latest cases, however, ‘flash mobs’ have turned from fun spontaneous events to opportunistic criminal occurrences.”

Police were seeking the public’s help in apprehending the suspects.

The incident comes as LA County District Attorney George Gascon and his office have come under fire for prosecutorial laxity that some blame for a spike in the city’s crime rate. He has been criticized for announcing plans to soften the state’s three strikes law, which mandates harsher penalties for repeat offenders.