rare! Hundreds of people looted a freight train! The scene was broadcast live on TV!
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The New York Post reported that on October 11, local time, a group of people ransacked a freight train in Chicago, the United States, and was recorded by American media cameras.
That afternoon, a freight train carrying electrical products was robbed by dozens to hundreds of robbers while it was waiting for docking in the 400 block of North Lamon Avenue in Chicago's South Austin neighborhood.
These robbers quickly poured into the carriage after the train stopped and plundered electrical products. A container was emptied in a short time.
Witnesses said that the robbers did not act alone, but completed the robbery in a short time through rapid and coordinated actions. Some men were seen climbing onto the train, taking the cargo boxes out of the open containers, and handing them to accomplices waiting on the rails nearby. After the accomplices took over the goods, they moved them to trucks waiting not far away.
The whole process was jaw-dropping, with many cardboard boxes scattered around the scene. However, the police did not rush to the scene immediately after receiving the report, but waited for nearly an hour before arriving.
During this period, robbers swarmed in and took whatever they wanted. When the police arrived, they did not take immediate action, but waited for reinforcements to arrive before arresting people. This resulted in many robbers fleeing the scene before the police arrived. In the end, the police only arrested at least 6 people and recovered some property.
Officials said the railroad was no stranger to this kind of freight theft, but it was rare for the crime scene to be broadcast live on television.
According to reports, the scene was filmed by an ABC Chicago helicopter. A group of people can be seen looting goods on the train. They looted items including televisions and air fryers.
According to the video, police arrived at the scene later, pulled out their handguns and ran toward the robbers who fled in their car.
Less than an hour after police and looters left the scene, ABC cameras captured more people breaking into the train cars, the report said. It is not ruled out that someone notifies his companions to come and seize the goods.
The railway company strongly condemned the incident and explained that the train stopped to wait for its partner operator to dock, but at this time the thieves began to open the carriage and rob it.
This robbery not only caused huge economic losses to the Union Pacific Railroad, but also aroused strong public concern about the security situation.
A spokesman for the railroad said in a statement that railroad theft poses a safety threat to the public, employees and local law enforcement officers, and that they will continue to work closely with local law enforcement to ensure that similar incidents do not happen again.
It is worth noting that this was not the first time the Union Pacific Railroad had been robbed. As early as August this year, a freight train was similarly robbed near Lawler and Kinzie on Chicago's West Side.
The series of incidents not only exposed the safety hazards of freight trains, but also raised concerns about how to effectively respond to the increasing number of railway robberies.
