Anonymous Conservative linked, this morning, to a crazy story from Kevin Dahlgren's substack, Truth on the Streets. Dahlgren relates that he was working as part of a group of volunteers cleaning up a park in Seattle when he heard a crash of breaking glass from a black SUV parked across the street. And he saw a thief making off with a couple bags from the SUV. So Dahlgren and couple of other volunteers take off chasing the thief. He describes the chase, during which the man they were chasing eventually dropped one of the bags, and then they eventually ran him down at which time the thief gave up the other bag (containing a laptop) while one of the other volunteers that had kept up called 911 who, of course, told them to let the man go.
But it is the next part that is truly strange:
While waiting for the police to arrive we stayed about a block behind the man who was now just walking. He no longer thought he was being followed, but also knew the police were called. We watched him take off his shoes, shirt and cut his blue jeans into shorts. Within thirty seconds, he looked likes a completely different person. We called 911 back and gave the new description and his new location.
A middle aged man wearing a ‘Just do it’ NIKE hat suddenly rode up to me on his circa 1980s huffy, grabbed my shoulder told me to stop following. He said “I’ll make serious trouble for you”., I knocked his arm off me stood my ground and told him I was not going anywhere. He looked into my eyes and saw I was not going to back down so he retreated. I caught back up to the thief who had just turned a corner and observed as two other homeless placed a blanket over him and then walked away. If I had not seen it I would have easily walked past him. We called 911 again and let him know he was now hiding under a blanket several blocks away.
As John spoke to the operator, a lady wearing a black jacket and minis skirt lunged at me and tried to take my phone. She held on tight and with all her might tried to take it from me. Another man arrived on a BMX and grabbed my arm. I got her to let go and let the new man know I meant business and to stay away. He got the message and stayed on his bike. He did though also threaten me and said “Watch your back”. As I questioned this lady on why she was trying to take the phone she saw two city employees in yellow vests and started screaming “Help I am being harassed!”, hoping they would believe her. They looked in our direction then looked away and kept working. She continued screaming and the man jumped out from under the blanket ran away with another group of individuals that seemed to appear from nowhere. There were five of them and he blended in with them in the middle and walked away.
Jon called 911 once more and they finally told them they would not pursue because we were not the victims. We asked the operator to reconsider, reminding her we were eyeball witness, filmed it and knew exactly where he was. She reiterated they would not pursue and told us to do the same.
The last few photos I took was of him jumping into a car. It came out of nowhere and it was clear they were following us the entire time. The driver got out, stared me down then jumped back in and sped off.
This entire event happened over a twenty minute period and about twenty blocks. ...
Dahlgren interpreted this event in the context of general lawlessness and organized theft rings now too common in Democrat controlled cities. He continues (emphasis added):
... While relieved I got the items back, I was also very frustrated with how impossible it was to get a police officer to arrest a clearly guilty person. That is when it dawned on me why smash and grabs and most other crimes now occur in the middle of the day with multipole [sic] witnesses. There are no consequences. What I witnessed was organized crime. There were spotters, enforcers, harborers, a woman screaming fake claims to distract what she had done and a getaway driver. All told there was at least twelve people involved and all did not hesitate in getting physical and to threaten anybody that got in their way. They were very organized and it was clear they had done this dozens if not hundreds of times before.
Anonymous Conservative interpreted this as part of his theory of secret surveillance networks working for some secret or unknown Cabal. Certainly we saw sophisticated operations in play here. The thief must have been under surveillance by his co-conspirators who, on the spur, were able to gin up multiple people to run interference, hide, and then finally spirit away the thief in a car. This implies a level of training, communications, and disguises (remember the two "homeless" guys that just happened to be on hand to cover the thief with blanket) beyond what you would see in a typical "smash and grab".
Was this a "smash and grab" albeit by a very sophisticated group of bandits? Or was the group specifically tasked with getting that laptop?
That's a weird, weird story.
ReplyDeleteI want to know what was on that laptop.
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