Between 30 to 50 people swarmed the Nordstrom at the Westfield Topanga Mall in Woodland Hills, making off with thousands of dollars worth of luxury handbags and high-end clothing, an LAPD spokesman told NBC News.

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    Stealing from wealthy corporations is an extremely valid and morally acceptable form of protest. Hell, it’s a morally good thing to do even if it’s not meant as a protest.

    I’m not going to defend assaulting the guards, though, except in the case of self-defense. Store security guards have no business using force against shoplifters, and most company policies align with that fact.

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      Yeah have you ever been in a Nordstrom? Fuck that place, snatch all the handbags you can and sell them on eBay I don’t really care.

      You shouldn’t bear spray security and maybe they should be charged for it but at least he wasn’t shot or something.

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        i feel bad for the employees who had to deal with it and clean up after and the guards that got assaulted. i dont feel bad for the above store level managers and execs who have to deal with this shit.

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      So all those people who work for a living and contribute to society, who save up that money to buy those handbags are just schmucks? Give me a break.

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        1. People that work for a living do not shop at Nordstrom’s

        2. The items were stolen from Nordstrom’s, not individuals

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          What a tacitly disingenuous statement. What the fuck are you sniffing “people who work don’t shop there.”

          Your edgy 14 your old comment is ridiculous. What a jibe on the rich you just did!

          The items were stolen period. Fact. A crime. Never mind your rage against capitalism. Commit a crime and get put in jail.

          Commit a bodily crime over property, get put in the ground.

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        You know someone is a shit person when they equate income with value as a human being.

        Even if that were a valid take, almost every working poor person contributes more to society than nearly any rich person does, and would therefore still have more human worth.

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      There was also needless destruction. I can see breaking a glass case to grab some watches, but it appears that there was also destruction for the sake of destruction (at least in the video I watched).

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        Who actually gives a fuck about corporate property being destroyed? These companies commit more theft from their workers than all other theft combined. They objectively deserve this.