Caught on video: Thieves shatter jewelry store glass displays at mall in Central California

[IcyPeas]

they walk into a mall with hammers and sledgehammers! Video in link.

SMASH-AND-GRAB ROBBERY: Cell phone video shows about a dozen people with masks and hammers inside a mall jewelry store in Central California busting glass display cases, stealing merchandise and taking off with the goods.

https://abc7.com/merced-mall-robbery-smash-and-grab/11548377/

[58Sunliner]

1. Well, Valentines' Day is coming up. What a shitty thing to do.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. Not caught on video, and unlikely to be on the news: U.S. corporations stole $137 million in wages

today.

[Mz Pip]

3. That's doesn't make this okay. N/t

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. It certainly affects a lot more people and results in much greater harm. And yet it's not covered.

Why?

ETA: Tbf I'm not looking for an answer. It's worth thinking about, though.

[brooklynite]

7. How did they steal the wages?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. All sorts of ways.

They didn’t pay overtime or violated minimum-wage laws. They’ve misclassified people who should be employees. They’re making the wrong deductions. They’re making people work off the clock. It’s all wage theft.

[brooklynite]

9. So you don't have actual evidence; you're just assuming.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. My bad, didn't realize you wanted links.

Here's a report from EPI.org:

https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-2021/

Some highlights:

* Misclassification alone costs the state of California $7 billion in lost revenue.
* $9.27 billion was stolen from workers who earned less than $13 an hour in 2019 alone.
* Authors estimate that workers throughout the country lose $15 billion annually from minimum wage violations alone.

[VarryOn]

5. And I guess they are already out of jail, bail-free...nt

[BlackSkimmer]

6. Sick of seeing this shit. nt