Smash and grab crimes baffle Democrats because ... narrative

Peppermint Psaki says it’s a COVID phenomenon, AOC says it’s not happening, Dick Durbin says, whatever you do, don’t charge those bread thieves with felonies.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, said retailers could be fabricating the rash of smash-and-grab robberies and “flash mob” shoplifting sprees.

“We have to talk about specifics, because, for example, we’re actually seeing a lot of these allegations of organized retail theft are not actually panning out,” she told The Washington Times. “I believe it’s a Walgreens in California cited it, but the data didn’t back it up.”

A brief list of some of these share-the-wealth events can be found here, but I don’t think AOC will be reading it.