CBS Anchor Muses If Famed Walgreens Shoplifter Is ‘Probably Getting Something You Need,’ ‘An Act Of Desperation’

On Tuesday, the shoplifting epidemic in San Francisco took center stage in the national conversation after a video went viral showing a shoplifter at one of the city’s Walgreens stealing various items off the shelf while a security guard and other customers helplessly watched the theft in progress.

“A reporter with San Francisco’s ABC affiliated posted the video to Twitter, tagging the city’s progressive district attorney, Chesa Boudin, whose office has shifted focus from petty crime to focus ‘only on stopping serious, repeat offenders, especially violent ones,’ according to an interview a deputy district attorney did with the Davis Vanguard, a news outlet near San Francisco,” The Daily Wire reported. “The video is also tagged, ‘No Consequences.'”