Thief gets caught stealing bike, then threatens the bike's owner, people nearby defend thief

This video was taken in 2010 outside of a Walmart in Long Beach. The original video was hosted on Vimeo, but eventually taken down. Here is the video (with longer intro) that was hosted to Youtube soon after (not by the original filmer),

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9urJxYnEFU[1]

Here is the description of the video where the uploader gives an excerpt from the original source:

"Filmed on a Kodak Zi6 attached to my messenger bag. After the video I called and waited 45mi after several calls for police to respond. LBPD officer watched video and blew it off. Said if I was afraid of him he could arrest him for terrorist threat, but since... Got forwarded to Ramone Agular in Councilman Loenthal's office where it lead to LBPD taking the video as evidence to charge the perp with something when he gets out of lockup. Where he is now for bike theft. My concern is with the older security guard clearly working with them. LBPD said they would investigate him, and that he should be fired. I rode by him yesterday, he's still there. All they need to do is dump his phone and look for ties to know offenders. So I think I basically got lip serviced. Turns out the only real currency these days is Public Relations. LB is concerned about it's image to a point so the more eyes view this the more chance there is of Lowenthals's office making enough noise to get the criminal culture turned around. Get the Plat security guard fired... Plat security is owned by an X LBPD BTW..."

Not long after this Long Beach devoted more resources to the rising bike theft issue. About 2 months after the youtube video was uploaded, a couple of guys responsible for a rash of bike thefts were arrested in Long Beach and were charged with 10 felony counts. You can read about that here[2] . I'm uncertain if the bike thief in our video was associated with those guys. In previous posts a lot of suspicion was thrown on the two guys who run up and play interference. Its assumed that they were with the original bike thief and were keeping security distracted, but as you see in the excerpt above, the victim believed that the security was in on it too.

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