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, 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.”