Which makes things difficult for the police unfortunately, as it makes the job of figuring out who is a bystander or a participant very difficult.
Comment on Police in Oxford Street make arrests amid social media ‘robbery campaign’
Emperor@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Seems like most people who turned up were there to film it for social media.
Ilovethebomb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
scratchee@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Seems like even amongst willing criminals, you’d have to be particularly stupid to join in a massive Snapchat planned robbery, more cameras recording the crime than brain cells involved in planning it.
Hogger85@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Which is still against the dispersal order
NuPNuA@lemm.ee 10 months ago
And I have as much contenot for them as the shoplifters themselves. Bloody digital rubberneckers.
Emperor@feddit.uk 10 months ago
It’s very… incestous and navel-gazing. It sounds like there were far more of them than the troublemakers and that is just making the police’s life harder and worrying other nearby shop owners when they see the big crowds.