30 minutes, a curfew in walnut creek went into effect 2 hours ago after looters hit several stores there. This is Broadway Plaza in downtown walnut creek. It is of course the center of that suburban shopping district. This these pictures shot about 2 hours ago and you can see large groups of people heading toward the mall. They were seen looting in stores, including Lululemon Ray ban a liquor store. The macys and more mayor has who told us earlier today that this was criminal behavior and broadband liz im not in the spirit of the peaceful protests seen elsewhere kron fours dan thorn has been in walnut creek all day long he joins us live now with the latest details dan. The ken and pam heavy Police Presence here in downtown walnut creek is you can see behind me here. This is main street its pretty much blocked off by dozens of officers. All the way through downtown towards Broadway Plaza. Its unclear if there was any damage that was done to some of the rtaurants and shops that are along
Enforcing a curfew. Oakland officials are discussing one. Part of the reason is this, looting across the bay area. This was a few hours ago, a dsw. Lets look at sky ranger right now. This is a look at aleandro. We have been watching this for 45 minutes or so. People running in and out. Helping themselves to whatever they wanted in there. At one point, they were doubleparked, loading up with stolen goods. Letsroz plater in walnut creek. Theres a heavy Police Presence here in downtown walnut creek. All were needed this afternoon, when all heck broke loose. From sky ranger, you can see the aftermath, windows smashed and broken glass everywhere. Stores ransacked in walnut creek. Widespread looting with looters dodging in and out of traffic. Police say a young woman was shot in the arm, possibly by a vandal. In this bizarre scene, a fight breaks out over clothing. All had Walnut Police descend on the downtown. Shutting down businesses to close. Once people started to break in and the alarms
Country and whats going wrong. Oakland officials are discussing and thats the main goal, to one. Part of the reason is this, change things that are broken at looting across the bay area. The moment. Reporter for now, this part this was a few hours ago, a dsw. Of the downtown is offlimits, locked down. A curfew is in place and police are warning anyone sighted will lets look at sky ranger right be cited. Now. This is a look at aleandro. The curfew will extend through monday, june 8th. Im roz plater, nbc bay area we have been watching this for news. Look at this video out of 45 minutes or so. People running in and out. San leandro. A lot of s. W. A. T. Team members helping themselves to whatever they wanted in there. At one point, they were doubleparked, loading up with walking into the ulta beauty stolen goods. Store. That was not the only store lets start with roz plater in looted at that mall tonight. The dsw store is right next door. Walnut creek. To Valley Fair Mall in theres a heav
Like macys what sells pretzels kiosk has 2 broken windows in someone stole the entire cash register. Whether no money was inside we dont know, but the whole door was stolen and gone. We also know that old navy was hit several glass windows can be seen their shattered and one of them has been boarded up now the tory secret is also a store that was looted the front doors broken into inside clothing racks empty mannequins toppled over the entire mall is covered in shattered glass. Its going to be a big cleanup. And that is what a along the creek Police Officer told me is that here on out moving forward theyre going to be cleaning up. This mall is going to remain closed. Down the street, i drove to the target on north main street where i also saw a broken door, and it looks like they were looted as well so looks like walnut creek hit pretty hard in the police here are monitoring situation construction. Crews are actually going to be here soon ford up any other stores that may needed and th
And the mutual aid that weve gotten from departments from santa cruz just sonoma has been invaluable as well as the state of california we have called in for reinforcements and they have come in the form of the chp a couple 100 officers that have been deployed here in the bay area that have been integral to our plans. Certainly we are constantly assessing the conditions and our intelligence to determine whether a curfew is the appropriate Law Enforcement tool. Lets be clear last night we chose to focus our Law Enforcement resources on the actual vandals. Looters people that are engaged in even in violent acts last night and it was a very different situation then say friday friday we had a very large scale demonstrations, almost 8,000 people where vandals and looters hid inside of that people otherwise peaceful demonstration. Last night we saw much more indiscriminate different shops all over the city getting targeted and i and im really pleased that our Police Department arrested 60 in