Los Angeles Convenience Store

WATCH — A flash mob of teens ransacked a convenience store in Los Angeles, California, Thursday evening, and the LAPD told the owner “there was nothing they could do about it” because shoplifting “isn't something they can really go after.”

The owner, Jeremy Salib, told ABC7,… pic.twitter.com/DxUN8l5yMi

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… about two-dozen high schoolers took armloads of merchandise including candy, chips and beer during the “premeditated, organized” theft.

“Of course, they're gathering -- so many of them — that I can't stop just one kid, right? It's 24, 25 kids, so it leaves me kind of helpless — especially with LAPD saying they can't do anything about it.”

“It makes me angry, you know? It makes me think erratically, which I don't want to do.”

The gas station owner said he called the LAPD but “they said there was nothing they could do about it — that it's considered shoplifting and shoplifting isn't something they can really go after. So, that's that.”


Justine Bateman

Mayor Bass, Nithya Raman, Spencer Pratt, DA Nathan Hochman, this is embarrassing and makes those currently in office look like children.

Time for you to finally let the LAPD enforce laws again or you will have even more businesses and residents leave LA. This is one of the reasons people here resent the high taxes: we get very little in exchange. This is why our insurance rates are so high: to cover all the losses in a free-wheeling crime city.