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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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…
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