OAKLAND, California — Around 4:30 a.m. on July 5, dozens of people broke through the front door of a 76 gas station mini-mart near Oakland’s international airport. For about 40 minutes, the mob casually looted tens of thousands of dollars of merchandise and stole $22,000 in cash from the ATM. The sole employee working the window ran away, called the pol…
The Fall of Oakland
Surveillance footage of man recently released from prison brutally beating and robbing two women on July 5, 2024, in Oakland. (Photo via @oaklandpoliceca/X)
Mob lootings. Random shootings. Elderly people beaten in the street. The city has descended into lawlessness. Leighton Woodhouse reports.
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