High-end retailers including Yves Saint Laurent and Louis Vuitton were among the stores looted and vandalized on Friday night in the San Francisco area, prompting outrage from the city’s mayor and police chief.
A spokesperson for the San Francisco Police Department said that officers responded just after 8 p.m. “to possible looting and vandalism to retail establishments in Union Square.”
Merchandise worth thousands of dollars was retrieved by police after stores including Jins Eyewear, Bloomingdale’s and Burberry were looted, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
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San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott said that Hermes and Fendi stores were also damaged, but officers were able to intervene during the thefts. He said that eight people, all young adults, were arrested.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that this was not unplanned. Their plan was to overwhelm us. Their plan was hoping that we wouldn’t be here but we were,” Scott said during a news conference on Saturday.
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Meanwhile in Walnut Creek, Calif., roughly 25 miles east of San Francisco, police said that three people had been arrested and one firearm had been recovered following looting in a Nordstrom store, ABC7 News reported.
Walnut Creek police said that they first received reports of the incident before 9 p.m. local time and that 80 people were involved in the incident.
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A spokesperson for the San Francisco Police Department said that officers responded just after 8 p.m. “to possible looting and vandalism to retail establishments in Union Square.”https://t.co/ijoN2hgkzI
— The Hill (@thehill) November 21, 2021
Looters strike high-end San Francisco-area stores for third day in a row, hitting a jewelry store and Lululemon outlet https://t.co/qqlX7uWNL8 pic.twitter.com/mN1CR41unI
— The Hill (@thehill) November 22, 2021
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