police were on scene fast and made quick work of one of the get-away cars and arrests eight suspects. san francisco is the epicenter of organized retail crime because of lacks laws. federal legislation has been introduced to change that. meantime, a number of stores have reduced hours or closed altogether baughing of the rampant thefts. here in downtown walnut creek, police are beefing up patrols as they caution more smash and grabs could happen. all of them, martha, tied to black friday and the online demand for good deals on luxury items. back to you. unbelievable what a mess. stores were also targeted in chicago. our local fox station getting video of damage to a gamestop on the south side. police say robbers raided neiman marcus on the magnificent mile.
fully intentional. he was going around the floats and everything. that s how he got so close to us. martha: what is your daughter s reaction? how is she doing? she s rough. like i said, she ll make it. she was shaken up at the time. she really was just didn t understand what was going on, you know. you always see stuff like this in the movies but nothing in real life. it s going to affect her for a while. martha: no doubt. you know, sir, when you learn more about this suspect and you hear about the list of things that he has been accused of, second degree recklessly endangering safety, which lines up with what we saw last night, felony bail jumping, battery, a sexual assault charge in his past, obstructing an officer. he got out of jail in the county that you live in just ten days ago. what goes through your mind when you hear that, sir? i don t see how we can let an
individual, you know, with that kind of a rap just really be released to without being monitored or anything. it s just a selfless act, you know, that these people had to go through, especially what we did. we re lucky to be alive. i feel so bad for the people that didn t make it or really in critical condition because this selfless act. martha: i know. you know, it s so terrible listening to the names of those that were killed and we said they range in age from 82 52 to 81 years old. some of them were grandmothers that were dancing in the parade, just having a lot of fun and a great time. the children that are in critical condition, three sets of siblings. as a member of this community, what would you say about those
suspect as 39-year-old darrell e. brooks jr. brooks is a milwaukee man with a criminal history dating back to 1999. he s a registered sex offender in nevada. the most recent court appearance was november 5 and bailed out on $1,000 last friday. the downtown right now has been cleared out. most of the businesses are closed and safe to say that this town will never be the same, martha. martha: just awful. thanks, matt. my next guest i just mentioned a moment ago, he shoved his 14-year-old daughter out of the way of the s.u.v. when it came within feet of his family. thomas joins me now. i cannot imagine what today has been like. how are you doing? it s rough. i m going to be going home soon. just trying to be with family there. just going to try to go home and
national guard to protect kenosha, to protect the city from becoming another place like minneapolis. you had the sheriff that came out after the riots saying we re a small town, we don t see things like this. therefore it happened. people to say that kyle rittenhouse went there for battle, he was there as a last resort to protect his community. while they were setting fires and he was putting them out with no national guard as a result of politicians making bad decisions after having months of warnings to do so, he had to act in self-defense as a last resort. you have to look up to the lead of this and maybe politicians could learn some lessons about how to prevent this from happening in the future and put public safety above the narrative that the left wanted to push. martha: a lot of questions about whether he should have been out there. but the truth is that there wasn t there weren t enough protection, there wasn t love law enforcement and there wasn t enough protection in that