Apple Main Place - Naperville, Illinois (reopened June 24, 2020).Apple Bellevue Square - Bellevue, Washington (reopened June 17, 2020).Apple Union Square - San Francisco, California (reopened June 8, 2020).Apple City Creek Center - Salt Lake City, Utah (reopened June 9, 2020).Apple King Street - Charleston, South Carolina.Apple Walnut Street - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (reopened July 8, 2020).Apple Downtown Brooklyn - Brooklyn, New York (reopened June 17, 2020).Johns Town Center - Jacksonville, Florida (reopened reopened June 8, 2020) Apple Carnegie Library - Washington, D.C.Apple The Grove - Los Angeles, California (reopened June 22, 2020).Apple Century City - Los Angeles, California (reopened June 22, 2020).Apple Scottsdale Fashion Square - Scottsdale, Arizona (reopened September 9, 2020).Apple Uptown - Minneapolis, Minnesota (closed permanently).Some boarded-up stores were decorated with murals and became gathering places for Black Lives Matter marches. Damaged stores were closed for repairs, and high-risk locations were pre-emptively boarded up. 56 were closed due to the conditions related to the protests while others remained closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On May 31, only 42 of 271 locations in the United States remained open out of concern for customer and employee safety. Melrose Mac, an Apple Authorized Reseller and Premier Partner based in Hollywood, was looted and burned. In late May 2020, Apple stores in the United States were targeted for vandalism and/or looted during protests over the death of George Floyd. George Floyd protests Īpple Pioneer Place in Portland, Oregon has been decorated with a mural of George Floyd. By December 9, Apple stores in Paris on the Champs-Élysées and next to the Théâtre National de l'Opéra were boarded up and fortified after being damaged during ensuing riots. On December 8, 2018, looters broke into the Apple Store on rue Sainte-Catherine in Bordeaux, France during the Yellow vest protests across France. Gilets jaunes le pillage de l'Apple store de Bordeaux However, Apple's security discourages this practice as it may be hazardous.
Though in a legal gray area, scavengers are known to go " dumpster diving" around Apple stores to recover discarded merchandise in the hopes of finding a salvageable iPhone, especially when a store location is in the process of relocating. In 2018, seventeen suspects in California were arrested and charged with being part of a robbery ring to steal merchandise from Apple stores.
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However, because Apple assigns unique serial numbers (such as IMEI) to its devices, stolen items will often be blacklisted and " bricked". Typical lootings are often carried out through smash and grab techniques by small parties. We want people prosecuted and we want people to feel safe this holiday season.The Apple Store in Berkeley, California is boarded up after a smash & grab robbery in 2014. The state’s governor Gavin Newsom has vowed to take action, saying on Monday: “We want real accountability. In 2014, Californians voted in a referendum to approve Proposition 47, which raised the threshold for felony theft from $500 (£375) to $950 (£712). Opponents of California’s ruling Democrats have blamed the state’s relaxation of sentencing laws, although many such initiatives involved less serious thefts. Some gangs are asked to steal specific items that are in demand among black market vendors, shipping them out of state to be sold online. Police said many of the thefts are the work of organised robbery rings that hire freelancers for each job, sometimes providing crowbars and getaway cars. In the Bay Area on Sunday, a group of 40 to 50 people broke open glass display cases at a jeweller’s shop in Hayward, near San Jose, while other thieves pillaged a Lululemon shop and a sunglasses store for about $50,000 (£37,470) in merchandise.
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Police said one thief was wearing an orange wig.Īnother Nordstrom outlet, in a swank outdoor shopping centre called The Grove, was ransacked on Monday by about 20 people who smashed their way in through the display windows with a sledgehammer. That same evening, five robbers rushed into a Nordstrom in Canoga Park, Los Angeles and stole seven or eight expensive purses.
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