Police are looking for a load of around 400 bulletproof vests hijacked from the Lower Manhattan office of a New York City non-profit. They were supposed to help protect Ukrainians from Russian bullets. Now, it looks like Antifa has them.
An organized heist of vests
On Wednesday, March 16, demoralized, defunded and powerless New York City police announced that hundreds of donated tactical vests “were taken sometime overnight” from “a building on Second Avenue that houses two Ukrainian organizations.”
The burglary was discovered around 9 a.m. when people showed up for work. As reported by NYPD Sergeant Edward Riley, “approximately 400” were looted.
Obviously, someone heard the news last week that Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office had “made a large donation of vests” to the Ukrainian cause.
“It is despicable that someone would break into a building to steal supplies and materials intended to aid those affected by this humanitarian crisis,” sheriff’s office spokesperson Vicki DiStefano observes.
The video cameras got some great footage of “three vans pulling up outside the building, which houses the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America and the Ukrainian National Women’s League.”
More cameras at a nearby merchant show “another man and van involved” in the heist, clearly targeting the vests specifically.
Well prepared thieves
The crew of robbers were well prepared and had lots of helping hands. “Several hooded men are then seen carrying out boxes, believed to contain the vests, and loading them into the vehicles.”
One suspect was spotted leaving one van after it was loaded with the booty.
Diligent detectives have ascertained that “the thieves likely broke in through the front door.” So far, that’s all they know.
They’re sure to run into the Decommissioned vests on the street during the next peaceful Black Lives Matter protest. Helpless Ukrainians will have to simply take their chances against the Russkies.
While the donated vests saw daily service for the past five years they still work just fine to protect the wearer from projectiles. They would have come in real handy for innocent civilians in the middle of a war zone.
It was all set up for them to be shipped “by plane to Poland and then transported into Ukraine.” They were intended for use by “civilian security and medical teams, officials said, not he military.“
