An LA woman was filmed being mown down by a Dodge muscle car so muggers could steal her watch as the city’s terrifying follow-home robberies soar.
The video from Monday, one of five such robberies that occurred over just 48 hours, shows the unidentified victim fleeing the muggers silver Dodge Challenger after they smashed her car window when she stopped at a light in Downtown LA.
She tried to run off, the robbers struck her with their car. The thieves then got out and snatched the woman’s watch off the road after she ripped it off her own wrist in a bid to get them to leave her alone. They then snatched the timepiece and fled.
Los Angeles street gangs are behind brazen robberies in which people are followed home from fancy locations, stripped of a fortune in jewelry or other goods and sometimes shot, police said Tuesday.
At least 17 gangs, most of them based in South Los Angeles, have independently staged robberies, sometimes using spotters to target people wearing high-end watches or driving expensive cars, Capt. Jonathan Tippet, who spearheads an LAPD “follow-home robbery” task force, told the city Police Commission.
As many as five carloads of people have followed home some targets, swarming them to steal watches, handbags or cars before they have much of a chance to resist, Tippet said.
In one case, a man was arrested this month on suspicion of robbing a victim of two watches worth an estimated $600,000.
Los Angeles is out of control, and its leftist politicians are going full steam ahead with their policies that created this mess in the first place!
A woman is run down and robbed of her watch by gunmen Downtown. It's one of more than 200 "follow-home" robberies carried out by 17 South L.A. street gangs, the LAPD says. Eyewitness News with the troubling trend frustrating police. Tonight at 11 from ABC7 https://t.co/7mApPOpStw pic.twitter.com/WSxK6wBJNk
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) April 13, 2022
"In my 34 years with LAPD I have never seen this type of criminal behavior," Capt. Jon Tippet. Five violent follow home robberies in last 48 hours. The latest VIDEO below shows thieves run over a woman to get her watch. pic.twitter.com/5zkym0CBHs
— Jeff Vaughn (@JeffVaughn) April 13, 2022
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