By: Brian Maquena
March 14, 2022
LAKEWOOD, CALIF. — A group of youth smashed a Lakewood woman’s car and one prepared to club her after she discovered them stealing her catalytic converter at her side door.
“The guys are out to hurt somebody,” said the female resident, who was endangered with a club on March 5 at around 5:44 a.m. at her home. “They’re holding crowbars and bats and they’re out to do some damage if somebody approaches them. So it’s kind of scary.”
The Lakewood Populist reported how another man and his neighbors that same day reported their cars being smashed and burglarized in a similar fashion. One of the men, Sean Dolan, said video of the incident reminded people of ‘The Purge’, a film in which unabated hooliganism is allowed to run rampant for one night.
Dolan’s incident occurred on Autry Street between Candlewood Boulevard and Del Amo Boulevard. He brought up the incident at a March 8 City Council meeting. The female resident, whose name is being withheld for her safety, had her car vandalized nearby.
Video of the incident showed masked youth driving up a street in two vehicles. They parked alongside the female resident’s house before pulling out clubs and equipment, jacking up her car and proceeding to saw off her catalytic converter.
Soon, the female resident can be heard yelling at the youth. Thereafter one of the youths began to curse at her, smashing her taillights.
“I was banging on the windows...screaming,” said the female resident, who in July 2021 had a similar incident and was able to scare off the would-be thieves by confronting them.
This time, however, the hooligans were apparently out for blood.
After yelling at the female resident, one of the two youths with clubs walked up to her side door and held the club above his head. He was apparently ready to strike the woman if she had stepped outside her home.
The incident, which took place in about a minute and 15 seconds occurred a few blocks behind the Lakewood Sheriff’s station.
“That really doesn’t do you any good,” said the female resident, regarding her proximity to law enforcement.
By the time neighbors came out, the hooligans were long gone.
The woman and her husband had another attempt on one of their vehicles in early 2021, making this the third attempted-or-actual vehicle burglary-robbery they have endured in about a year.
Get involved
Follow us at the links below. The Lakewood Populist has been banned from Reddit groups and from Facebook via shadow banning and outright banning. Much of this occurred after we posted a critical story on an incumbent Lakewood Councilmember and on Cerritos College’s CCP-styled monitoring of students. In fact, we are barely able to publish things on our Facebook page due to Facebook suspiciously not allowing images of certain articles to show up on our Facebook page’s post. We also have witnessed the view counts of our YouTube videos being lowered.
Get past the Big Tech censors by following us at the links below, but please do consider our Gab and Gettr accounts as they are totally uninhibited by Big Tech’s censorship and whoever is reporting our content to them for censorship.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was updated to clarify that the hooligan braced himself to club the woman, and that the woman was inside her home as the hooligans committed their acts outside her home.
Don’t give them ideas Brian
Get them a55holes off the streets the laws need to change it’s just too crazy they would think twice before doing this before when we had stronger laws w consequences