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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates

Vancouver shop owner frustrated by repeat violent thefts, including ‘full-on fist fight’
https://www.google.com/amp/s/globaln...fts-brawl/amp/

As expected I guess.


In less than a month, Anthony Sullivan said his team on Robson Street has endured “dramatic” thefts and theft attempts, “brawls with groups of youth,” and threats with weapons.

On Aug. 17, Sullivan’s manager was hit multiple times in the head by a group of youth, some of whom had tried to make off with ice cream — an incident caught on the grocery store’s cameras.

The crime is “systemic” in downtown Vancouver, he added, and there doesn’t appear to be much accountability for it.

On Aug. 31, Sullivan said his staff confronted someone trying to steal a basket of meat — an oft-targeted item — and the suspect drew a seven or eight-inch knife and threatened the staff.

A 27-year-old man was arrested in that case, charged with theft and assault with a weapon, and released from custody by the courts the next day.