The scattered restaurant vandalisms are occurring amid broader burglary and robbery trends that have captured attention across L.A.
At République in Mid-Wilshire, a large rock landed through the window just before Thanksgiving. One of the cafe-restaurant’s bakers, arriving around 2 a.m., encountered the broken front window and immediately called chef and co-owner Walter Manzke.
The staff at République is still working on the repair. The window was quickly boarded up and new glass ordered, but after it arrived, the complexity of the fix became more apparent. High benches are welded in place along the windows in front and might need to be cut to insert the glass, then rewelded, which Manzke believes could double the cost. As of Tuesday, the window was still boarded up.
During a meeting of the Police Commission on Tuesday, LAPD Chief Michel Moore said the department believes there is some overlap between the groups following people home and robbing them and those smashing into businesses. And, he said, police believe that restaurants are among the locations where such groups are scouting for potential targets. But spokespeople for both the Los Angeles and Santa Monica police departments said they had not identified an uptick in restaurant vandalism.
After an assailant threw a rock through a window at Birdie G’s, assistant general manager Keely Obbards covered the boarded-up window in wrapping paper and a bow for the holidays. Security camera footage showed a hooded and masked assailant hurling a rock through the glass front of Ayara Thai Cuisine in Westchester, then kicking out the glass and entering at 5:06 a.m. All the owners could glean from the footage was that the intruder was probably male; taken were $30 in rolled coins, roughly $100 stashed in a filing cabinet and two bottles of Thai iced tea.
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