Five people accused of participating in a San Francisco looting spree have been released on bond, despite all having extensive criminal records which include illegal firearm possession and attempted murder. Included in this group is a 53-year-old grandmother and her daughter, who made looting and shoplifting a family activity. The incident on November 19 resulted in the looters escaping with more than $1 million in stolen goods.
San Francisco looters released already
Francill White has made a career out of stealing in San Francisco. She even managed to steal from taxpayers in 2011 when she managed to win $30,000 on a frivolous lawsuit filed against the San Francisco School District.
Daughter Kimberly Cherry also has an extensive criminal record, beginning in 2014 when she was convicted for stealing from the same J.C. Penny store her mother had previously been arrested for robbing.
That must have been a proud moment for Francill, who has subsequently continued to steal from stores with Kimberly as a mother-daughter bonding activity.
All of the released male looters also have extensive criminal records and have made careers out of smash and grab robberies in the San Francisco area.
The Louis Vuitton store looted by the group remains boarded up and under guard after the thieves emptied its shelves nearly a month ago.
This is despite its being in what is meant to be an upscale neighborhood of San Francisco and an area which has no shortage of surveillance cameras and police officers nearby.
City finally beginning to realize it has a problem
The thieves aren’t concerned about any of the security measures apparently, as none of them seem to have made much of an effort to hide their identities after the robbery.
It is easy to see why they didn’t bother given that all have now been released and are now back on the streets and ready to clear out the shelves of another store in the area.
They are clearly aware of the fact that San Francisco has, in what was meant to be a BLM-approved policy, decided to not take aggressive action against most shoplifters.
There has been an epidemic of increasingly brazen crime in the city as thieves become more and more confident that the mayor and district attorney will not be devoting much effort to tracking them down.
Mayor London Breed, in fact, has begun to call for a major crackdown on crime, though this is very much too little too late for the city, as the release of these criminals shows.
All of these five looters now out on bond are career criminals who will only take this as an opportunity to see what else they can get away with. If San Francisco is serious about saving itself then the city will have to start locking these people up and throwing away the keys.