Around 4:30 a.m. on Friday, a violent incident shook the nation in Oakland, California, when hundreds of dozens of thieves wearing masks and hoodies carried out a massive ransack at a convenience store at a local 76 gas station.
They robbed everything they could with them as if they were going to a bazaar. Ironically, just a few days ago, Oakland's progressive mayor, Sheng Tao, boasted that the crime rate in the city of hell had dropped.
According to surveillance video, the operation appears to have been carefully planned, starting with a car deliberately crashing into the glass door of the store, and then everything went terribly bad.
The robbers immediately came to the scene, ready to snatch everything that could be snatched, they did not rush to grab things and run like the previous "zero yuan purchase", but like a bazaar, they looked and picked while seeing, and then grabbed what they wanted.
In the video, the robbers can even be heard laughing as they look for something to pick up in the aisles of the store.
At the same time, the police were nowhere to be seen, and the robbers seemed to be moving slowly.
The owner, Sam, was furious during an interview, saying he called the Auckland Police Department but was told to "file a report online."
Sam said he then tried to contact Oakland Police Chief Floyd Mitchell and was told he had to make an appointment.
The Oakland Police Department said in a statement that police were only called after the suspect left the scene.
"The video evidence, which was later reported to the Oakland Police Service, clearly demonstrates the scale and details of the incident, including a large number of suspects, which was immediately escalated to a Level 1 incident, and already an officer went to the scene to get in touch with the owner, and investigators are now reviewing the evidence and working directly with the gas station owner," the statement said. ”
Slap in the face
The mayor was slapped in the face as soon as he praised himself
Just a few days ago, Auckland's "proud" mayor, Sheng Thao, boasted that the city's crime rate had begun to decline in recent years and that criminal activity had decreased.
And this robbery was undoubtedly a slap in the face. Two years ago, Sheng Tao won the trust of Oakland residents in the name of progressives, but when she came to power, she showed the usual characteristics of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party — cutting police funding, condoning crime, commuting the sentences of criminals, and releasing criminals early...... Causing Oakland to become the hellish city of California.
Violent crime has been rampant in the city in recent months, with the number of murders soaring from 78 in 2019 to 126 last year.
The overall crime rate rose 18% in 2023, with property crimes up 17% and violent crime up 21%.
In the first four months of 2024, residential robberies surged by 118% compared to the same period last year.
Another alarming statistic is that one car was stolen for every 30 residents in 2023.
Concerns about employee safety and the severe impact of retail theft have prompted several large companies to pull out of the city, including In-N-Out, a California specialty burger joint.
Sheng Tao also became the first mayor in Okla's history to be ousted, and the campaign to remove her has already garnered more than 40,000 signatures, and by the end of this year, Oakland voters will add a column to recall Sheng Tao.
Not only that, not long ago, Sheng Tao's home was raided by the FBI, which is the FBI's function of supervising the corruption of state officials. And Sheng Tao was still defending herself with her identity afterwards, saying that if she was born in a wealthy family, the FBI would not have raided her home.