A sad sign of the times:

Police urge stores to dial 911 if 'large group of people' enter amid surge in mass theft
Retail stores on high alert in recent weeks
By Cameron Arcand, The Western Journal
Published December 2, 2021 at 10:48pm

Retail stores across the United States have been on high alert in recent weeks amid a trend of mass organized thefts, and some law enforcement officials are proposing drastic measures to combat it.

One area seriously impacted by the surge is Minnesota, particularly with Best Buy, in which over a dozen people looted the store's locations on three separate occasions on Black Friday.

In Maplewood, Minnesota, where one of the looted Best Buy stores is located, the thefts prompted a response from police Lt. Joe Steiner.

“The frequency in which these mass thefts are occurring and the number of offenders in these mass thefts are alarming to us as law enforcement,” Steiner said Wednesday, Alpha News reported.

“Through investigation, we’ve learned that the group responsible for the coordinated thefts in Maplewood are also responsible for the thefts just prior to our incident at the Best Buy in Blaine, Minnesota,” he continued. “The same group, we’ve learned, is also responsible for mass theft in Burnsville at their Best Buy just after our incident.”

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According to Steiner, the issue is so urgent that he has this advice for retail employees: “If they see a mass group of people entering, a large group of people entering a large retail store quickly, to go ahead and call 911.”

Most importantly, he said "multiple" suspects have been identified in the lootings, even though nobody has been arrested as of Wednesday, according to Star Tribune.

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