Brickbat: We Are Here To Help
In Glasgow, Scotland, the owner of the News Plus convenience store says shoplifters have hit his shop "every day," costing him $26,345 in stolen goods. Mohammad Sheikh has called the police more than 100 times in a year, often providing CCTV footage. Despite his constant reports and pleas for help, he claims no one has ever been arrested or charged, leaving him unsure whether he can keep the store open. Police say they are aware of the issues at his shop and have a special task force targeting retail crime in the city, but Sheikh says he feels like nothing is being done to stop the daily thefts plaguing small businesses like his.
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The police aren't going to touch the other Mohammeds robbing his store with a 10' pole. They're too busy ignoring all the Mohammeds grooming and/or raping pre-teen girls.
Did you honestly expect any sense of western civilization law and order in a caliphate?
Better get rid of the Muslims & Marxists here before we turn into Britain, and we have to contend with Advanced Muslims & Marxists.
Is there a point to having a one paragraph article about a shop in Scotland? Did Reason forget to publish part of the article?
Nah, Chaz just wanted one white person pointing a gun at another white person - while writing an article about brown people being uncivilized maniacs who don't fit (or want to fit) into western civilization.
Classic anarcho-tyranny.
Mohammad Sheikh has called the police more than 100 times in a year...
Maybe he's the wrong shade of brown to be deemed the victim in this.