Brazen thieves have been caught on video running from Footlocker, Apple and Lululemon with arms full of merchandise as Philadelphia police struggle to grab the looters. 

Videos shared on social media shows police officers attempting to grab lotters, some of who are wearing Halloween masks, as they run from a Lululemon store carrying goods.

Numerous bikes and piles of merchandise can be seen piled up on the sidewalk outside the clothing store on Walnut Street in the heart of the city. 

ABC reported that police had detained individuals ranged from teenagers to young adults, and recovered one weapon from the scene. 

It has also been reported that there have been numerous shots fired during the looting in the downtown area.

Thieves also descended on a nearby Foot Locker store and Apple Store, with CBS News reporting that the security guard at the footwear store was assaulted. 

In another video of the store being ransacked, a large number of thieves can be seen rifling through the store.

Footage from the Apple store shows the aftermath of the looting, with iPhones and other electronic goods seemingly ripped from their display stands. 

What appears to be staff members can be seen standing around looking bemused.

Fox News reporter Steve Keeley also shared footage showing the fallout of the looting. 

Officers can be seen placing handcuffs on one man, as they guard the exterior of the store. 

Numerous people can be heard shouting in the background as he is led to the rear of a police van. 

Another shot of looters outside the Lululemon store shows a large number of thieves making their escape. 

Numerous officers quickly arrive on the scene and can be seen pinning several men down. 

A police officer also told NBC Philadelphia that over 100 juveniles had looted the Lululemon store.  

CBS3 said that multiple police commanders confirmed to them that the looting had no connection to earlier BLM demonstrations.

Protests had started round the city earlier in the day over the dismissal of charges against police officer Eddie Irizarry who was involved in a fatal shooting.  

Hugh E. Dillon also shared a video showing the police response to his social media page. 

Dillon wrote: ‘Stay out of center city: Kids looted Apple Store , Lululemon and Chestnut street I hear footlocker has been broken into.

‘The police are doing an incredible effort on bikes and in cars corralling the kids blocked by Block. They are pulling cars over a lot of kids are in cars. 

‘They stop and a whole bunch of them get out and then they start trying to break in the stores. But the police are on top of it.’ 

Security guard at a nearby Wendy’s, Hakeem Russel told NBC that the store next to the fast food restaurant had been broken into, with a guard assaulted. 

Russel told the outlet: ‘A couple a kids decided they wanted to take full advantage of the unjust shooting that’s happened. 

‘It’s definitely been unrest around here since the verdict.’

Another video shows what appears to be a liquor store in the city, with one woman filming the scene shouting: ‘Everybody must eat, everybody must eat.’

Officers have now blocked off several streets in the area with crime scene tape due to the robberies. 

ABC reported that police had detained individuals ranged from teenagers to young adults, and recovered one weapon.  

DailyMail.com has approached the Philadelphia Police Department for comment on the situation. 

Just three weeks ago, the Philadelphia Police Commissioner resigned from her post as the Democratic run city dealt with a wave of homicides and lawlessness. 

Danielle Outlaw, 48, who has been Philly’s top cop since February 2020, officially left the department on September 22. 

Outlaw’s new role will be the Deputy Chief Security Officer at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, where she will oversee the airports, bridges, tunnels and other transportation infrastructure in the New York City area.

Before she took office, Philadelphia saw less than 400 homicides each year since 2007. Both 2021 and 2022 have seen more than 500 homicides across the city.

Latest figures, which are up until last Sunday, show how there has been 302 homicides in the city so far this year. 

There has also been 402 reported rapes, 58,759 cases of property crime, 3,701 cases of aggravated assaults and 1,314 shooting victims. 

 

Shocking footage shows thousands of migrants crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico into Texas – despite Joe Biden vowing to crack down on the influx.

More than 2,200 people crossed the river from Coahuila into Eagle Pass in a tactic pushed by drug lords to deliberately overwhelm U.S. Customs and Border Patrol.

By tying up crucial resources, it leaves Mexico’s cartels free to carry out human trafficking and smuggling operations uninterrupted.

As midnight approached the group could be seen wading through the deep waters to reach the other side, much to the surprise of some local Mexican residents.

One could be heard on camera exclaiming how only a small portion of the group were crossing at that one moment – with hundreds more following behind. 

By the time daylight arrived, the group were being rounded up by Border Patrol as they huddled under a bridge in Eagle Pass.

The footage was shot in Piedras Negras, the Mexican town which lies directly across the river from Eagle Pass.

The flagrant breaking of immigration rules took place next to the port of entry as those crossing the border thumbed their noses at the Biden Administration.

It was March 2021 when Biden pleaded with those thinking of making the journey to the U.S. ‘do not come’ with the threat of  ‘consequences’ for those crossing illegally.

‘I can say quite clearly: Don’t come. We’re in the process of getting set up, don’t leave your town or city or community,’ Biden said.

This latest wave of migrants who are mainly Venezeulan are believed to have travelled up through Panama.

Similar scenes have been witnessed along the border with towns and federal processing centers are now at overcapacity as a crush of crossings cripples the nation.

Last week there were more than 7,000 illegal crossings across the U.S.-Mexico border on several days. 

Nearly 500 miles away from Eagle Pass in El Paso, a similar surge was experiences as 1,700 migrants crossed in a 24-hour period. 

The migrants would then line up along the border wall and surrender to officers to then claim asylum in the US.

About 500 asylum-seekers mainly from Venezuela lined up at El Paso on Monday, reported KVIA.

Over the last week the region has seen a spike in encounters with 1,200 on average coming over each day. 4,200 migrants are being housed in local hotels rather than shelters.

Across the border as a whole, as many 9,400 migrants have crossed into the US in a single 24-hour period – almost equalling figures seen in May before the end of Title 42 which saw 10,000 people come into the country each day. 

‘The way it’s being orchestrated through the cartels, I believe it’s meant to overwhelm the system. The [places] that are being impacted the most are border communities,’ former El Paso City Councilmember Claudia Rodriquez told The New York Post. 

No street releases have been made in the El Paso region unlike in California and Arizona. 

Last week, photos depicted at least three white unmarked Border Patrol buses filled with migrants parked in San Diego.

It led to several hundred people being released onto the streets. One migrant was even told by an agent: ‘You’re free to go on and do wherever you want. You’re free.’

He asked: ‘It’s no problem if I go to Chicago?’

‘You can do whatever you want,’ the official replied. 

Border Patrol in San Diego has reportedly been dealing with 20,000 migrants in custody last week – 5,000 more than facilities can manage.

It can’t accommodate more than 15,000 migrants and migrants are being released onto the streets to fend for themselves after being processed at the border.

Similar migrant releases took place in Tucson, Arizona, with agents coming across 2,000 people a day and dealing with packed shelters. 

In Texas, State Representative Eddie Morales says the migrants made the trek by hopping on trains.

‘It’s obviously a security issue, we have concerns over their safety and we need to address this in the most – expeditious manner,’ Morales said to News4SA. 

‘Under U.S. immigration laws, most non-citizens coming to our border are not eligible to remain in the United States. Asylum laws do not provide for relief solely for economic reasons or for general violence,’ U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) tweeted on Monday.

After the public health order known as Title 42 was lifted in May 11, CBP says the U.S.  ‘returned to fully enforcing Title 8 immigration authorities to expeditiously process and remove individuals who arrive at the U.S. border unlawfully and do not have a legal basis to stay.’ 

Texas Congressman also Terry Gonzales also shared similar frustrations.

‘Eagle Pass is completely overrun right now. El Paso is getting overwhelmed right now. Arizona is getting overwhelmed right now.

‘The only way we can regain control of the southern border is by enforcing the laws that are on the books. That’s exactly what the administration needs to do. That’s exactly what Congress needs to focus on.

‘All Americans deserve to feel safe in their own communities and right now they do no. A lot of folks see it on TV and they think it will never happen to them. Well I’m here to tell you it’s already happening, whether you’re in New York, whether you’re in Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles.

‘These folks that are coming over illegally, they’re coming to all parts of the country. It’s only going to get worse.’

One day earlier, a cargo train filled to the brim with migrants was spotted speeding toward the Mexican border with the United States. 

Astounding footage of the FerroMex train was shot as the locomotive with hundreds in tow could be seen coming out of the Central Mexican city of Zacatecas as it made its way northbound on the 750-mile journey toward the U.S.

Container after container could be seen filled with migrants getting an easy ride as the goods train zoomed by. 

There was whistling and cheering from those on board as the group hitched a ride. Some of the travelers could even be seen hanging out from the sides of the train.

The train was headed for the U.S. southern border – where in the southwest, roughly 2 million migrants have already made their way into America in 2023. Border towns have been crushed by the influx thanks to the lax border policies of the Biden administration. 

The migrants looked to have prepared themselves for a long journey with many having erected tents and canvas over portions of the containers in a bid to shield themselves from the elements. 

The videos comes as the latest figures from U.S. Customs and Border Patrol show a rise in the number of encounters with migrants at the Southern Border.

In July there were almost 184,000 migrant crossings into the U.S. – up from 144,000 encounters with border patrol from June.

Although the figures rose on a month-by-month basis, the numbers are still well below that of previous years when in 2021 and 2022 more than 200,000 crossed into the U.S. from Mexico.

The U.S. border has seen a flood of migrants from across the world, not just Central and South American nations such as Venezuela and Mexico. There have been migrants from China and other places entering via the porous southern border.

The 2022 fiscal year saw record-breaking numbers of encounters with migrants at the Southwest border with 2,378,944 reported crossings from October to September.

In 2023, through July, there have been 1,973,092 – many of them coming as Title 42 expired.

The number of migrant crossings in August is set to exceed 230,000, according to Fox News.  

Most migrant encounters are single adults, at 64.9 percent, but almost 600,000 are individuals in a family unit and there have been 109,298 unaccompanied minors crossing the border.

Issues of overcapacity are happening all across the southern border. Along with Tucson – street releases are happening in the San Diego sector and in Santa Cruz County, California.

Texas has also been using razor wire to block migrants illegally entering as it battles a challenge from the Biden administration seeking to stop it from building a buoy barrier in the Rio Grande.

The Lone Star State has also been busing migrants to ‘sanctuary cities’ such as New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles in order to give border towns some relief.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott argues that Texas cities have carried the weight of illegal immigration and ‘sanctuary cities’ need to share that burden.

‘Texas has bused over 35,000 migrants to self-declared sanctuary cities,’ he wrote earlier this month on  Twitter.

‘Over 11,300 to D.C., over 13,300 to NYC, over 6,700 to Chicago, over 2,600 to Philadelphia, over 1,000 to Denver, over 480 to LA.’

 

People from the African nations of Senegal, Mauritania, Ghana, Sudan are part of the migrants who have recently made crossings into the U.S. from Mexico.

Cochise County, Arizona, is being slammed with waves of migrants bussed from other counties after crossing the border amid President Joe Biden‘s lax policies.

‘The intellectual avoidance and abandonment with intended consequences’ by those leaders in Washington, DC, reference our southern border continues to be a slippery slope for those doing everything we can to protect our quality of life here in Cochise County!’ Sheriff Mark Dannels said.

‘The migrants being released are from outside Cochise County but were bussed to Cochise County, processed and then released,’ Daniels noted in a Facebook post.

‘I applaud the local [Customs and Border Protections] agents and their leadership for doing all they legally can during this on-going crisis.’

It’s unclear exactly how many migrants the processing facilities in Tucson can accommodate or how many have been transported to other locations such as Cochise County.

Shocking trail cam clip shows the moment a bear and wolf BOTH attack a moose and her calf as they walk through Alaskan wilderness at night

• Intense footage shows the two animals appearing to join forces to ambush their prey
• The perfectly placed cameras ‘give us a front-row seat to Mother Nature’s drama’

By Paul Farrell For Dailymail.Com

Published: 09:22 EDT, 13 September 2023 | Updated: 13:19 EDT, 13 September 2023

This is the shocking moment a Spanish television journalist was accosted and sexually assaulted by a man today while she was reporting live from Madrid.

Isa Balado was delivering a report involving a local convenience store when the man approached her from the rear and grabbed her backside, footage shows.

Despite the interruption, Balado kept her composure and told the man to let her ‘do my job’. Despite her pleas, the stranger persisted and even brazenly touched her hair as he walked away, before coming back again to continue talking to her.

The man was later arrested by police, with Spain‘s national force posting a video to social media that showed officers walking him into a police station.

Balado was reporting from Calle del Duque de Alba, a street that runs through the centre of Madrid, when the assault occurred.

She was reporting about an incident which happened on Sunday in a shop that’s shown behind her in the clip. The news report was showing CCTV footage from inside the shop, with Balado describing the events over the top.

As she is talking to the camera for news station En Boca De Todos (On everyone’s lips), the man – wearing white shorts, a blue jacket and dark sunglasses – is seen coming up the street behind the reporter.

Without saying a word, he reaches behind Balado and touches her backside.

Visibly flustered, Balado tries to continue with her report, saying: ‘Sorry, one minute’ before telling the man: ‘We are live on TV.’

But presenter Nacho Abad, the anchor back in the studio, asks Balado: ‘Isa, sorry to interrupt you. The sound is really bad. Did he just touch your a**?’

The uncomfortable young reporter tells the presenter that the man did indeed touch her, and the camera adjusts to show both Balado and the man.

It appears that the man is asking her what television station she works for, prompting Balado to tell him: ‘As much as you want to know which TV station we are, do you really have to grope me? I’m working on a live report.’

Responding to the accusation, the man tells her: ‘I haven’t touched your a**.’

‘Yes you did,’ Balado replies, as someone on the street suggests calling the police.

Balado again asks the man to leave her alone so she can continue her work, as Abad is heard calling the man ‘a complete imbecile’ in the studio.

‘I didn’t want to touch your a**. I respect you, you know, I wouldn’t touch your a**,’ the stranger says, again prompting the reporter to tell him to ‘let me work’.

As he begins to walk away, the man reaches in again, this time to touch Balado on her head. ‘Is this guy stupid or what?’ Abad is heard saying.

In a second clip, the presenter is heard speaking to his colleague over the broadcast, telling her: ‘Isa, I understand that for you this is an extremely uncomfortable moment, and [an] absolutely disgusting situation.’

Balado is seen back on the same street speaking to a woman about the incident, slightly further up from the store she had been standing in front of.

The woman next to her suggests his actions were ‘normal’ for that area of the city.

‘It’s not something about me, it’s happening to all the girls he is encountering. It’s very disgusting as I am trying to work,’ Balado says as the camera moves again and films the man bothering another person on the street.

‘As you can see, there he is. He is accompanied with another man wearing a hat. He probably doesn’t have anything to do all day,’ the reporter says, as the man again approaches her from behind.

Abad warns his colleague that he’s coming back, saying: ‘Isa, turn around, turn around, he is approaching you again. He is behind you, quick, turn around!’

The man again starts talking to Balado, and – perhaps realising he’s been caught red-handed on television – appears to be protesting his innocence and calling her baby.

‘I heard what you said earlier… Tell them the truth!’ he says. ‘What do you mean to tell the truth?’ Balado shoots back, before the presenter ends the broadcast.

While the identity of the man is unknown, Spain’s national police released a short clip later on Tuesday afternoon showing the same man – in a blue jacket and white shorts – being led into a police station having been arrested.

‘Arrested for sexually assaulting a reporter while she was doing a live television show,’ the police force said in the Tweet. 

Abad later revealed on air that it was the program that had taken action and called the police. ‘We have called them because they have to act. We hope to have the images of the arrest of this unpresentable person,’ he said.

Another reporter for the channel, Diego Losada, said: ‘Our colleague was doing her job and an individual, with a smile, touched her buttocks without her consent. The important thing is that this disgusting individual is now arrested.’

He also called for justice over the incident, and said: ‘We condemn all types of aggression and in this case it has hit us very closely, because attacking Isa is like attacking any of us. In a society that we want to be better this cannot happen and This feeling of impunity cannot exist. 

‘This is a lack of respect and I hope that the full weight of the law falls on him.’

The shocking incident comes in the wake of a scandal surrounding the head of the Spanish football association, Luis Rubiales, that rocked Spain.

Rubiales announced on Sunday that he was stepping down from the position after he kissed player Jenni Hermoso in the aftermath of her country winning the Women’s World Cup in August, sparking outrage at home and abroad.

Today, Rubiales was ordered to give testimony to a Spanish judge investigating the kiss. Rubiales says she had consented to the kiss, but Hermoso has denied that.

Judge Francisco de Jorge ordered Rubiales to answer his questions on Friday at Spain’s National Court in Madrid, according to court documents seen by The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Spanish state prosecutors formally accused Rubiales last week of alleged sexual assault and an act of coercion when, according to Hermoso, he pressured her to speak out in his defense immediately after the scandal erupted. 

Rubiales announced on Sunday that he was resigning from his post, from which he had already been provisionally suspended by FIFA.

De Jorge is carrying out the preliminary investigation into the accusations against Rubiales, and will then decide whether the case should go to trial.

According to a sexual consent law passed in Spain last year, Rubiales could face a fine or a prison sentence of one to four years if found guilty of sexual assault. 

The new law eliminated the difference between ‘sexual harassment’ and ‘sexual assault,’ sanctioning any non-consensual sexual act.

The incident has proven to be somewhat of a ‘Me Too’ movement in Spain, empowering many women to come forward with their own experiences, and has shone a spotlight on the issue of sexual assault. 

Bernard Tomic breaks his silence to make shocking revelation about video of him being brutally beaten by two thugs outside a Gold Coast tattoo parlour

• Disturbing footage shows tennis star being assaulted by two men 
• Tomic defends himself against barrage of kicks and punches 
• Star has spoken out about the video for the first time 

By Shayne Bugden For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 19:25 EDT, 9 September 2023 | Updated: 20:51 EDT, 9 September 2023

Shocking moment angry driver attacks traffic warden with wooden pole as the pair brawl on the street in east London after officer took photos of the man’s van

• The fight, caught on film in London, left the traffic warden with a broken finger 

By Tom Cotterill

Updated: 06:30 EDT, 23 August 2023

By Gina Kalsi For Mailonline

Published: 02:35 EDT, 22 August 2023 | Updated: 04:13 EDT, 22 August 2023

The death toll from the Hawaiian wildfires has climbed to 93 as new video emerges of residents being tossed around the ocean after diving in to flee flames. 

Blazes on the island of Maui have now become the deadliest wildfires in modern US history, as authorities continue to work to identify the victims. 

As the fires swept the island, new footage has also emerged of people who had jumped into the Pacific Ocean in an effort to escape the flames.  

Those from the town of Lahaina are seen being thrown around the choppy waters as thick smoke and embers surround them. 

Resident of the historic town Joan Hayashi told Fox 11 that those in the water had to wait for eight hours to be rescued.

Hayashi said: ‘It sounded like a giant blow torch, we had to run in the ocean. We’re in the ocean probably like eight hours. Flames were hitting, things were falling from the palm tree.’

Federal emergency workers are now tasked with picking through the ashen moonscape left by the fire that razed the centuries-old town of Lahaina. 

Teams have been marking homes with a bright orange X to record an initial search, and contacting HR when they discover human remains.  

Maui Police Chief John Pelletier said that crews with cadaver dogs had covered just 3 percent of the search area, with the death toll expected to rise again. 

Pelletier said identifying the dead is extremely challenging because ‘we pick up the remains and they fall apart’

Pelletier said: ‘When we find our family and our friends, the remains that we’re finding is through a fire that melted metal.’ 

So far, the remains of two people have been identified and Pelletier is urging those with missing family members to go to the family assistance center. 

He said: ‘We need you to do the DNA test. We need to identify your loved ones.’ 

On Saturday, the Wall Street Journal reported that a report by fire researchers in 2014 warned the area was at an extremely high risk of burning. 

Another report in 2020 is also said to have tied fires to winds from a passing hurricane, similar to the ones that turned the town of Lahaina to ash. 

The 2014 report warned that Lahaina was among Maui’s most fire-prone areas due to its parched grasslands, winds and steep terrain. 

A plan was laid out to shield the area around Lahaina from fires, which included thinning vegetation, improving response capabilities and working with landowners. 

On Saturday, Governor Josh Green toured the devastation on the historic Front Street of Lahaina. 

He said: ‘It will certainly be the worst natural disaster that Hawaii ever faced.

‘We can only wait and support those who are living. Our focus now is to reunite people when we can and get them housing and get them healthcare, and then turn to rebuilding.’ 

At least 2,200 buildings were damaged or destroyed in West Maui, Mr Green said, of which 86% were residential. 

Across the island, he added, damage is estimated at close to 6 billion US dollars, Green said it will take ‘an incredible amount of time’ to recover. 

At least two other fires have been burning on Maui, with no fatalities reported thus far: in south Maui’s Kihei area and in the mountainous, inland communities known as Upcountry.

A fourth broke out on Friday evening in Kaanapali, a coastal community north of Lahaina, but crews were able to extinguish it, authorities said.

Peg Alm spent Wednesday night sleeping in her truck after being forced from her home in Kuhei as another fire broke out.

‘I didn’t know about Lahaina until the next day because we made to evacuate’ she tells DailyMail.com.

After seeing those heartbreaking pictures of the devastation on the local news, Alm signed up to help with the relief effort after answering a call put out on social media.

‘I was tired of waking up and crying the whole morning,’ she says before wiping away more tears as she recounts her memories of the historic beachside town.

‘This is like the soul of the island has been ripped up,’ says the Michigan native, who has lived on Maui for 15 years.

For the past three days, a long-shuttered and derelict wharfside restaurant in the nearby Ma’alaea harbor has been a meeting place for a community still reeling from the deadly wildfires.

Buzz’s Wharf, which closed its doors for good in 2014, is now a hub where local volunteers gather to send much-needed supplies to the displaced and desperate residents of the fire-ravaged town.

From the early hours of Saturday morning, they have been sorting through the donation and forming human chains to load up trucks bound for Lahaina.

As they do so, some of the Native Hawaiians break out into prayer, asking for the deliveries to be blessed, to the sound of the Pacific crashing on the nearby shore.

The cargo is made up entirely of donations from fellow islanders, stepping in whereaid agencies or the government have been too slow to do.

They include food, water, diapers, clothes and other medical supplies.

Peg, who runs paddleboard trips for tourists, was amongst the dozens of locals who have been showing up at Ma’alaea and other aid centers across the island since Thursday. 

Michael Lynn, a 41-year-old who moved to Maui from Oregon ten years ago to start a coconut harvesting business, had been on a camping trip in a remote eastern part of the island when the fire engulfed Lahaina.

‘We had no idea what was happening and then we switched on our phones and there were dozens of messages from our friends asking if we were ok,’ he explains.

‘The biggest challenge right now is getting the supplies to where they need to go,’

Lynn adds, admitting there has been some ‘frustration’ over the response from local authorities to the fire.

‘When we hit a certain spot, we try to figure out what they need and relay that information back to our volunteers here,’ he says. ‘We are delivering supplies but also hope.’

The newly released death toll passed that of the 2018 Camp Fire in northern California, which left 85 dead and destroyed the town of Paradise.

A century earlier, the 1918 Cloquet Fire broke out in drought-stricken northern Minnesota and raced through a number of rural communities, destroying thousands of homes and killing hundreds.

The wildfires are the state’s deadliest natural disaster in decades, passing a 1960 tsunami that killed 61 people.

An even deadlier tsunami in 1946, which killed more than 150 on the Big Island, prompted development of a territory-wide emergency alert system with sirens that are tested monthly.

Former Matilda leaves Hamish Macdonald gobsmacked after revealing the shocking pay she received after helping Australia reach 2015 World Cup quarter finals: ‘Seriously!?’

By Ollie Lewis For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 08:34 EDT, 11 August 2023 | Updated: 08:34 EDT, 11 August 2023

Shocking moment woman goes on vile rant at neighbor who ordered her to keep her dog out of her garage

• The altercation, believed to have been filmed in a suburb of Raleigh, North Carolina, shows an angry neighbor going on a wild rant  
• The woman had been asked to keep her dog from running onto her neighbors property when she says: ‘you’re black, so you think you got rights.’ 
• Do you know either of these women ? Contact joe.hutchison@mailonline.com

By Joe Hutchison For Dailymail.Com

Published: 11:48 EDT, 9 August 2023 | Updated: 20:34 EDT, 9 August 2023