This is the moment a tempted thief was kicked out of a jewelry store in California after being beaten up by employees he had just pulverized.
In the shocking footage, a shirtless man is seen running out of the Meza jewelry store in El Monte as workers chase him from the store.
Officers told local media the man entered the store on Saturday afternoon and began smashing windows after spraying employees to commit his theft.
The attempted robbery took a turn when the tired workers decided to retaliate and go after the suspect by kicking, kicking and kicking him out of the store.
This is the latest in a recent spate of appalling robberies and attempted robberies at California stores as brazen thieves take advantage of the state’s lax theft laws.
The video shows the moment a thief was chased out of a jewelry store in California after being beaten by employees he had just pulverized.
In this shocking footage, a shirtless man is seen running out of the Meza jewelry store in El Monte as workers chase him from the establishment.
The man fled into the street as employees chased him and his pants fell off.
The incident happened on Saturday when an unidentified suspect entered Meza’s jewelry store in El Monte – a town east of Los Angeles – around 2:20 p.m.
ABC 7 spoke to one of the store’s employees who said the man was armed with a hammer when he entered the store.
The man immediately got to work and sprayed employees and workers with bear repellent, then headed for the storefronts where he began to smash.
Instead of letting the man fight his way through the store, three employees began to fight back and go after the suspect.
“Me, my uncle and my father were taking it out,” said one worker. ABC7. I was trying to defend my family because as you could see he was hitting my dad and my uncle.
The video shows the three men punching and kicking the suspect and even using a long stick to take him down just seconds before he was chased out of the store.
However, before he can exit through the front door, one of the workers grabs hold of the man’s top, prompting the thief to scramble out of it to get away.
He then flees the store, running down the street as his pants fall off and he briefly points to the person recording the video.
The employees keep chasing and hiring him before he leaves.
Police said the man fled the scene in a gray Dodge Charger.
The man had his shirt taken off as he fought the employees in the doorway.
This photo shows the moment one of the store employees started to fight back
One of the employees is seen fighting with the would-be thief during the attempted robbery.
Online, users applauded employees for resisting the would-be burglar and
“People need to start fighting back and things like this will stop,” one person wrote on YouTube.
“It’s time for store owners to protect their business, co-workers and customers and fight these criminals,” another added.
“Well done employees! » added a third.
The incident comes just days after a group of thieves broke into a nearby jewelry store in Pasadena and pulled off a robbery in which they sprayed the owner with pepper spray.
“As soon as they pepper sprayed me, I knew what was going on,” said Sam Bibikiam, owner of Jewels on Lake.
“I thought, ‘I hope nobody pulls out a gun and shoots,'” he said. “But nothing like that happened.
The suspects in this incident have not yet been identified or arrested.
The group walked away with around $500,000 worth of merchandise.
This is the Meza jewelry store in El Monte
Over the weekend, DailyMail.com shared photos and videos of another gruesome robbery in which brazen thieves were filmed casually walking out with $9,000 worth of merchandise from various California stores.
A group of masked thieves broke into a Home Depot store in Signal Hill on August 27 and stole power tools worth $5,000 in full view of shocked staff.
The seven men loaded two shopping carts with expensive goods and carried as many as they could in their arms before heading out.
In another incident the next day, a man and a woman ransacked a Nordstrom store in an Irvine mall.
Surveillance footage shows the pair strolling through the store before running out with armfuls of stolen items and fleeing the scene in a getaway car.
A group of masked thieves broke into a Home Depot store in Signal Hill on August 27 and stole power tools worth $5,000 in full view of shocked staff and customers.
In another incident the next day, a man and a woman ransacked a Nordstrom store in an Irvine mall.
In San Francisco, the problem has become so severe that many retailers have left the Bay Area altogether.
Of 203 retailers that opened in San Francisco’s Union Square neighborhood in 2019, 107 were still in business in July, down 47% in just a few pandemic-ravaged years.
Many large chains, including Whole Foods, Brooks Brothers and Office Depot, have closed their stores.
Upscale retailer Nordstrom has cut nearly 400 jobs by closing all of its stores in San Francisco amid rising crime and a faltering economy in the city.
A San Francisco family hardware store lost a colossal $700,000 in a single year to “organized shoplifting.”
Dale Hardware owner Kyle Smith described the helpless situation in Fremont and said his grandfather, who founded the store in 1955, would “roll in his grave” if he knew about it. rampant shoplifting.
Remaining stores like Target have been reduced to enclosing their entire stock behind glass to deter shoplifters.
The new security measures came after an employee revealed he was being shoplifted every 10 minutes.
Many products, including shampoo, deodorant, toothbrushes and food items, are now kept behind glass or plexiglass barriers that require staff to open them.
Larceny thefts in San Francisco, which include retail robberies, declined significantly during the pandemic, but have increased every year since.
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