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One more anecdote.... my Mom, Oakland DA, daughter (tres generaciones de mujeres) visited last Sunday.
Daughter reports that in addition to the widespread breaking of parked car windows, the new 'thing' is breaking the windows on cars occupied by women at stoplights and grabbing their purses at knifepoint.
I have a hunch this isn't necessarily all 'homeless people' crime, but also young thugs who are simply urban thugs.
Not a bad idea for ladies to keep a can of bear spray in their door side panel. Me, I like my short aluminum baseball bat.
"......the FBI arrested two men and charged them with attacking U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick with an unknown chemical spray during the Jan. 6 riot. Charging papers allege that one of the men said to the other, 'Give me that bear s---,' before later spraying a substance into Sicknick's face. Sicknick died Jan. 7. Capitol police have said Sicknick 'was injured while physically engaging with protesters.' A cause of death has not been determined.
Whether Sicknick's death is related to bear spray or not, news reports from around the United States and Canada show that it is increasingly being used as a weapon against humans rather than for its intended purpose: to protect hikers, campers and backcountry workers from bears.
