Groups of masked teenagers swarmed into stores in Philadelphia’s Central City on Tuesday night, stuffing plastic bags with merchandise and fleeing.
Los Angeles police announced arrests related to robberies of a Yves Saint Laurent in Glendale, a Nordstrom in Canoga Park, a Versace and a Warehouse Shoe Store.No injuries were immediately reported, but CBS Philadelphia said a security guard was assaulted at the Foot Locker.
The flash-mob-style ransacking followed an earlier peaceful protest over a judge’s Tuesday decision toagainst a Philadelphia police officer who shot and killed a driver, Eddie Irizarry, through a rolled-up window. However, several police commanders said that the store ransacking wasn’t connected to earlier demonstrations, CBS Philadelphia reported.
The thefts also occurred on the same day Target announced that it would close nine stores in four states, including one in New York City’s East Harlem neighborhood and three in the San Francisco Bay Area, saying that
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