Has America gone "full Joker" with smash-and-grab robberies?
Has America gone "full Joker" with smash-and-grab robberies?
Organized crime has seen a peak in recent years, with footage of looters immediately going viral on social media after incidents in major cities.
Is America going “full Joker” with mobs of people across the nation ransacking stores in smash-and-grab-style robberies? And is social media encouraging this?
Look at Philadelphia -- Dayjia Blackwell, known as "Meatball." With thousands of followers watching, she live streamed looters moving from a liquor store to the apple store - and is even cheering on the crowd.
Her instagram livestream went on for hours until she was tracked down by police and arrested.
The next day, the looters were at it on the streets of Philly again – ransacking dozens of stores, with more than 50 people arrested.
The vicious looting is a nationwide problem.
Shopping malls and high-end retailers in large cities, like Los Angeles, Chicago and New York have had incidents of seemingly organized smash-and-grab attacks over the last year and surveillance video like this of the thefts immediately go viral.
Target closed nine of its stores in major cities due to the influx of large-scale crime, and several Nordstrom and Whole Foods stores have also shut their doors in San Francisco, blaming organized crime and poor economic conditions.
After the Philadelphia attacks Elon Musk said “America is going full Joker” giving “late-stage civilization vibes”and compared the country to the Roman Empire
With organized retail crime at its peak, costing retail stores $112 billion dollars a year, we may just be living in its renaissance.