You can’t be caught if they don’t know who you are and a face mask is a perfect disguise. Criminal gangs are flocking to America to join up committing crimes against innocent victims who can’t identify them because they’re wearing masks. Big reason the rioters get away with rioting is no one knows who they are. Law enforcement must gas, tackle and cuff perps otherwise the perps get away.

Armed thieves are capitalizing on the fact that everyone’s now wearing masks in public

“Call me cynical, but it occurred to me at the outset of the increase of people wearing face masks due to the coronavirus pandemic, there would be criminals who would capitalize on the situation,” retired FBI agent Dennis Franks told Quartz. “This must also create increased trepidation on the part of store clerks and other potential locations for robberies.”

Under normal circumstances, walking into a store wearing a surgical mask in the US would be grounds for suspicion. But with many people now wearing some sort of face covering to avoid catching or transmitting the novel coronavirus, more Americans than ever are obscuring their features when they leave home.

Thieves appear to have capitalized on this trend. They became eager early adopters, using surgical masks during the commission of various crimes, seemingly recognizing an opportunity weeks before the Centers for Disease Control on April 3 issued its first official recommendation to cover your face when going outside. Face masks are so coveted at this point they can sell on the black market at premiums of up to 1,500%.

“No one would be alarmed at this now, compared to just a month ago,” said retired NYPD detective sergeant Joseph Giacalone, who teaches police procedure at New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice, referring to the number of people wearing masks in public.

Lopez and Gonzalez appeared to understand this. Shortly before 10pm on March 18, a clerk at a Connecticut gas station was cleaning a coffee pot when Lopez, wearing a surgical mask and blue latex gloves, entered the store. According to a criminal complaint filed in Connecticut federal court, Lopez pointed a silver gun at the clerk, grabbed him by the collar, and marched him over to the cash register, hitting him in the back of the head with the weapon along the way. After the terrified clerk handed over $1,188, Lopez fled in a dark-colored Honda Accord.

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