{"id":84163,"date":"2022-08-04T04:07:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T09:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=84163"},"modified":"2022-08-04T04:07:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T09:07:00","slug":"84163","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=84163","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"'This isn't a good place to pick': Norco store owner speaks after fighting off would-be robber\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TZjXDAMXL-E\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/they-got-no-clue-elderly-store-owner-who-stopped-armed-robbery-slams-california-politicians-bail-reform?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018They Got No Clue\u2019: 80-Year-Old Store Owner Who Stopped Armed Robbery Slams California Politicians, Bail Reform<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An 80-year-old store owner in Norco, California, who thwarted an armed robbery over the weekend is taking California politicians to task after the traumatic encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Convenience store owner Craig Cope slammed politicians for being clueless about the escalating crime wave in California, referencing so-called bail reform, which has been criticized for allowing career criminals back on the streets to do more damage against innocent civilians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll probably get on the wrong side of some people here, but, uh, the politicians,\u201d Cope told FOX 11 on Tuesday, when asked what he would tell Californians fed up with the crime wave. \u201cThere\u2019s people out there that are not the best of people \u2026 these people that continually get let out now \u2014 it\u2019s been really bad the last year \u2014 those people, the majority of them, go right back to what they used to do. So the crime rate is escalating, and it\u2019s gonna continue to escalate until they start putting the people away that are doing the bad things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To business owners similarly frustrated, Cope said the answer is not really to \u201cdo what I did,\u201d but to \u201cput some pressure on the politicians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can do what I did, but what you really need to do is put some pressure on the politicians, because they got no clue what\u2019s really going on out here in the real world,\u201d he explained. \u201cI could start naming names, but there are a whole lot of them that are creating major problems for business owners, but for local law enforcement, they\u2019re creating problems for them. I\u2019m sure they\u2019re risking their lives, taking people into custody to see them get let out with no bail. A lot of these guys are career criminals \u2026 they need to be locked up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 80-year-old hero also had a blunt message for the \u201cbad guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t a good place to pick,\u201d he told FOX 11.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire detailed Monday that Cope reacted incredibly quickly when he realized his store was being targeted in an armed robbery. Surveillance footage shows that Cope fired at the first armed suspect who entered the store before anything else could happen, sending the would-be robber and the other men fleeing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe shot my arm off!\u201d one of the armed suspects is heard yelling on obtained surveillance footage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe saw on the surveillance \u2014 he saw them coming out of the vehicle with weapons,\u201d said Marnie Tapia, one of Cope\u2019s employees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m proud to call him my boss,\u201d Tapia said. \u201cHe makes us feel better about being here, you know.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff \u2018They Got No Clue\u2019: 80-Year-Old Store Owner Who Stopped Armed Robbery Slams California Politicians, Bail Reform An 80-year-old store owner in Norco, California, who thwarted an armed robbery over the weekend is taking California politicians to task after the traumatic encounter. 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