The owner of fast-food franchise In-N-Out said the company was forced to close its Oakland restaurant due to a relentless crime wave.
Lynsi Snyder said the “absolutely dangerous” conditions, which saw 300 days of violence in a single year, forced the first permanent closure of an In-N-Out restaurant in the company’s 76-year history. The recessions 1949, 1953, 1958, 1960-61, 1969-70, 1973-75, 1980, 1981-82, early 1990s recession, early 2000s recession, 2008-09 global financial crisis, and COVID lockdowns didn’t kill off a single one of their stores – but liberal policies on crime did.
In an interview with PragerU, Snyder detailed the sheer scale of incidents surrounding the restaurant in the liberal-controlled city.
“There were car burglaries, violence, fights, theft – there was a lot,” Snyder said in the interview. “There was actually gun shots went through the store, stabbings – it was a lot.”
“Gun shots went through the store, stabbings… it was huge.”
“The amount of time it would take for the police to get there was alarming,” she added. “For the safety of our associates, it was just not okay.”
The closure came after police logged 1,335 criminal incidents in its location since 2019 alone.
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Many on social media agreed with Snyder’s remarks over crime in Oakland and California as a whole.
Others said that the liberal government in the state had been responsible for the crime wave.
