Former U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer said on social media that she was assaulted and robbed Monday afternoon near Oakland’s Jack London Square.
The 80-year-old Boxer was pushed in the back by an assailant who took her cell phone and then jumped into a waiting car, according to a post on her Twitter account.
“She is thankful that she was not seriously injured,” the post said.
Boxer served as a U.S. Senator from California from 1993 to 2017.
In response to inquiries, Oakland police would not name Boxer but released a statement saying that a robbery occurred in the area at 1:15 p.m., when a victim walking in the 300 block of 3rd Street was approached by a suspect.
“The suspect forcefully took loss from the victim, and fled in a nearby waiting vehicle,” police said in the short statement. “This incident is currently being investigated by the Oakland Police Department’s Robbery Section.”
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This is the world she helped to create!
Got it!!
Yep!
100% truth!
Wonder if she called the future defunded police dept….
Attacked a high-profile woman. They’re f#@%ed
Wondering, after recent event, her position on defunding Police.
Defund the police is a term that became popular after Boxer was out of office, so not sure where she stands on that issue. However, the term defunding the police, does not make sense, who wants to defund the police, very few people. Perhaps reform or retrain is in order, but certainly not defunding. Whoever came up with that term did not think it through.
HANNE, What are you even talking about??? Did you forget about all of the death threats from Dems against 16 year old Nicholas Sandmann? What about all of the beheading assassination comments / photos directed against Trump??
The Left invented Hate….which is why they’re so good at it.
Regarding Babs Boxer…..it’s only the chickens coming home to roost, should I show compassion to someone who is a victim of their own Failed policies???
80 yer old walking in Oakland on her cell phone. walking target and she voted for it!
Your comments are inappropriate and cruel.
sorry the truth hurts popcorn.
Popcorn – facts are facts.
What’s the difference if it’s a former senator or some homeless person? You should ALWAYS be aware of your surroundings. Obviously, she wasn’t – maybe thinking that “it’ll never happen to me…”
The fact is that Boxer and many other democrat politicians are pushing for decriminalizing many actions, and the DAs are NOT prosecuting the violators.
You have only the democrat politicians to blame for letting the criminals out early and not punishing them appropriately.
Deal with it. Call a social worker.
You reap what you sow, snowflake.
I think showing compassion towards someone that has been victimized is a good thing. You don’t have to like her, or agree with her, but she is a human being that was traumatized. As for the hate from the left, I’m totally against that, when Rush Limbaugh was diagnosed with cancer I didn’t rejoice or felt he had it coming, even though he said some hateful things. Disagreeing with someone it one thing, wishing them ill is something totally different. I was brought up to rise above such pettiness, and although I have not always lived up to it, I have tried and as I get older it gets easier.
I think showing compassion towards someone that has been victimized is a good thing. You don’t have to like her, or agree with her, but she is a human being that was traumatized. As for the hate from the left, I’m totally against that, when Rush Limbaugh was diagnosed with cancer I didn’t rejoice or felt he had it coming, even though he said some hateful things. Disagreeing with someone it one thing, wishing them ill is something totally different. I was brought up to rise above such pettiness, and although I have not always lived up to it, I have tried and as I get older it gets easier.
I think showing compassion towards someone that has been victimized is a good thing. You don’t have to like her, or agree with her, but she is a human being that was traumatized. As for the hate from the left, I’m totally against that, when Rush Limbaugh was diagnosed with cancer I didn’t rejoice or felt he had it coming, even though he said some hateful things. Disagreeing with someone it one thing, wishing them ill is something totally different. I was brought up to rise above such pettiness, and although I have not always lived up to it, I have tried and as I get older it gets easier.
I think showing compassion towards someone that has been victimized is a good thing. You don’t have to like her, or agree with her, but she is a human being that was traumatized. As for the hate from the left, I’m totally against that, when Rush Limbaugh was diagnosed with cancer I didn’t rejoice or felt he had it coming, even though he said some hateful things. Disagreeing with someone it one thing, wishing them ill is something totally different. I was brought up to rise above such pettiness, and although I have not always lived up to it, I have tried and as I get older it gets easier.
I think showing compassion towards someone that has been victimized is a good thing. You don’t have to like her, or agree with her, but she is a human being that was traumatized. As for the hate from the left, I’m totally against that, when Rush Limbaugh was diagnosed with cancer I didn’t rejoice or felt he had it coming, even though he said some hateful things. Disagreeing with someone it one thing, wishing them ill is something totally different. I was brought up to rise above such pettiness, and although I have not always lived up to it, I have tried and as I get older it gets easier.
Standard Socialist Democrat brainwashing technique.
Keep repeating the lie over and over until they begin to believe it!
But seriously Hanne,
Please provide one example, just one…..of something “hateful”
that Rush ever said.
I can’t wait to hear this.
Boxer ridiculed Kamala Harris for being too hard on crime, I wonder if she will support restorative justice and a second chance for the man who violently mugged her in her advanced age and frailty.
Kamala was actually way too soft as well. We can thank all these Dem’s for the wonderful living conditions in California. Recall!
+1 …. she helped create it – now she can feel what it’s like … too bad – hope they catch the perp … but they won’t even make an example of him
From what I can gather, for liberals “restorative justice” means making an excuse to the victim for why you felt they deserved what you did to them. This is supposed to make them feel better about the injury, theft, assault, loss, whatever. Then, they can pick up the pieces of their lives and move on. And, you are absolved of the crime, because … well, because you had an excuse, basically.
Looks like the chickens are home…..
@ Bob – Cluck Cluck
NELSON_HA_HA.GIF
under $1,000? sorry no crime.
Good old fashioned Karma. We reap what we sow.
Well, maybe he “needed” the phone….
Hey, gotta apply the law equally. If not, then it just proves there’s different laws for the the commoners and politicians.
Yep, just like that homeless guy was able to see that Newsollini was dehydrated when he offered him a bottle of water in Oakland 🙂
Unfortunately the more high of profile people this happens to the better for maybe the powers of be have enough balls to start doing something about it. If criminals continue to run amuck threatening the public and doing harm more general public will start fighting back since the police, judges and politicians don’t seem to help put them in jail to stay.
My wife and I carry as well as our adult children and we will and have defended ourselves recently. We certainly don’t want to kill anyone but will not hesitate to do what is necessary if need be.
Hey law enforcement, we know your hands are tied even more than before but it’s gonna come a time the public will fight back and your jobs will not be needed anymore cept to keep donut shops in business.
Peak Marxism?
The stories are writing themselves now
WC loon council and CC supervisors should take note
Time to clean house?
ROFL
Lightening strikes twice, reminds me of the time State Senator Don Perata got car jacked in Oakland.
All her contacts are now furiously blocking her number
Does anyone still wonder why the A’s are eyeing a move out of Oakland? Oakland has finally reached Failed City Status. Maybe they could install signs at the entrances to the city proclaiming this award!
She deserves it . In fact all the politicians deserve the same pain and suffering they inflict on poor working people especially people of color with their failed policies . No sympathy here .
It’s always a tragedy to hear that a person was attacked and robbed, so I am truly relieved to know that it happened to a politician, and a California politician at that.
I’m sorry, but I laughed when I heard this on the news.
Frankly it needs to happen to every liberal politician and every one of those liberal social justice advocates out there. They need to reap what they’ve been sowing, and what everyone else has been suffering. Because they caused this mess with their anti-police rhetoric and their constant babying of the criminals.
When it starts happening to some liberal judges and DA’s, maybe we will start to see a change.
We are supposed to be shocked? Must have been meeting with the Chinese, KARMA.
……tell us, Barbara, what did this white-supremacist look like?.. … … Oh….
Maybe since she voted for catch and release and no prosecution of criminals and letting those in jail out early things will be looked at again and the laws go back to incarcerating the criminals who deserve jail time.
Since it is now one of their own just maybe it is wake up time.
You forget when you’re in Jack London you’re still in Oakland… it’s not San Fran
Schmee San Francisco is just as bad.
How come she has a residence in Oakland rather than her previous house in Greenbrae? One takes their life in their hands in Oakland. Defund the police????
Where does it say she lives in Oakland? Certainly it is not unusual for someone to visit different areas of the Bay. I never lived in Berkeley or Oakland, but use to shop there fairly often, both Oakland and Berkeley has the best yarn stores in the Bay Area, and I knit and use to weave so that’s often where I bought yarns.
According to USA Today, she was assaulted near her home in Oakland’s Jack London Square.
Back to Marin eh Barbara? Sooo much safer there.
I noticed the local newscasts didn’t mention the race of the perps, but instead they were described as “teenagers.” How woke.
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wow is this the new penal code for misdemeanor assault and theft
unfortunately this looks like a political attack
who knows what numbers are on that phone as well as texts
from union heads and former secretaries of state and silver tongue willy
or just a crime to lock the guy in with his new gang
either way i hope she is treated just like any other american citizen
when dealing with her system she created to insure crime thrives and people are accosted…..and DA’s refuse to prosecute or even charge
It’s easy for our most liberal public officials to support defunding the police and the absurd notion of sending out counselors to assist the criminals in some sort of rehabilitation. But remember they spend a great deal of our money on their personal security while in office. Rather than addressing the problem, look for upcoming legislation forcing us to pay for their personal security in retirement also. Cradle to grave protection for the elite………..
Perfect!!
Do the perps have a Gofundme?
More of this to come.
When was the last time any of you had heard about Boxer before this story dropped? Me neither.
I’ve known about her since the 80’s when she was a member of the House of Representatives.
I recall a Democrat named Seth being murdered and the only person interested in catching the killer was Julian Assange.
Democrats were strangely disinterested.
The Dems had Seth killed. He had some bad inside information on them that he was about to expose.
Jellyfinger and Badge1104
There is just no bar low enough for you!!!!
https://tinyurl.com/csdawkna
@ JWB ~ It depends on who is setting the bar and I don’t consider you to be a qualified judge of such things.
Just because they didn’t prove it does not mean it wasn’t true.
Isn’t that what your comrades have been telling us about Trump over and over these many years?
“A DC-based attorney has also offered a $130,000 reward of his personal money for information leading to the arrest of Rich’s killer. WikiLeaks is offering $20,000, One America News Network $100,000, the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department $25,000 and Businessman and investor Martin Shkreli $100,000”.
“The DNC has yet to offer a reward for information leading to the arrest of the murderer of its own young staffer”
https://tinyurl.com/5ctphxny
Sean Hannity kept up that conspiracy theory, he got sued by Seth parents, because there were no evidence. I believe he had to pay some damages, which shouldn’t hurt him too much since he is worth about 90.000, he also had to stop spreading rumors.
I’m surprised that the former senator, with all of the wealth amassed by her husband, has a place there. I know that she’s retired to the Palm Springs area, but if I had a Bay Area pied-à-terre it would certainly not be in Jack London Square.
She’s not my favorite politician, but I’m very glad that she wasn’t physically injured.
ConcordGuy, Nice to see some compassion even though you did not care for her politics.
Seventy shot in Chicago last weekend eleven dead. What does Boxer expect walking around Oakland. I have to pick someone up at the airport in an hour and I’m not wild about it. We are being sold out.
Looks like she got a taste of her own medicine. How’s that defund the police thing working babe.
Well maybe after a few more Politicians are confronted with a similar situation they will go back to good old justice.An eye for a eye.Put there asses in jail and throw the key away.
I read several members of congress are spending tens of thousands of dollars (probably our tax dollars) on private security. Oh, they know what defunding the police means.
Time to make July 26th a new federal holiday. Let’s call it Reparations Day.
Or, Free Phone Day. Or, Karma Day.
🤣🤣🤣
Making July 26th a holiday is the big payback to Black people for keeping democrats in office. They won’t improve their schools so more than ten percent can pass a math test but they can give them a holiday. Democrats are full of it right up to their eyes.
Que Nelson from the Simpson’s.
The comments on here are indicative of what as happened to the Republican party and Conservatives. An 80 year old human bein was attacked and this becomes fodder for Conservative jokes and negative comments. Thank you Mr. Trump for your wonderfully appropriate beliefs.
Missy,
I felt this way long before Trump ever thought about running for office. Yes, this is a microaggression towards you.
108RS
It’s the Democrat’s and their polices of hate that has created this reaction. Enjoy
It is 100% the democrats fault . All they do is spew hate and division , trying do divide the people of this country . The democrats support the criminal over the victims ,that’s a fact .But being a good liberal you blame the Republicans for your parties constant failures . Typical
Missy, are you actually trying to pin this alleged phone robbery on President Trump? Wow, you really are suffering, aren’t you?
Missey, Blaming Trump is indicative of what has happened to the Democrat party and liberals. Everything is either Trump’s fault, COVID’s fault, or racism.
Give it a rest.
Libby Schaaf has not a clue.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
HA HA HA HA
Couldn’t have happened to a more appropriate person.
I’m your huckleberry.
108RS
What’s with all the hate towards an elderly woman that got robbed, just because some didn’t like her politics. Isn’t is possible to compartmentalize this. You don’t like her politics, you don’t like that she got robbed, it shouldn’t be so hard. If you get pleasure out this what kind of a human being are you?
An elderly woman who is one of the people who caused this mess. I really don’t care what happens to Don’t Call me Ma’am Boxer.
Hanne, many other elderly people are being hurt and abused in Oakland, and it’s politicians like Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, Libby Schaaf, Gavin Newsom, et al did have created such a dangerous situation. They’ve ignored all the victim’s plea s and constantly supporting the criminals instead . Well now they’re suffering the results -that the rest of the public had been suffering- themselves.
Frankly I think it’s good that they feel what they’ve inflicted on the rest of us. It might be the only way they wake up.
To Missy how about if someone knocked off your block would you feel sorry for the person that did it?No No No you would feel totally different.
Where does Missy say she feels sorry for the person who did this? No reasonable person, who has a sense of right and wrong feels sorry for criminals. It is something some people just fabricate out of thin air, in and effort to demonize everybody and everything liberal.
The suspect forcefully took loss from the victim
what kind of penal code is that
took loss
is this how they look at crimes now
no assault just forceful
not theft just loss
wow
the umbrella of idiocy is opening up
make sure you dont randomly singe a persons place of commerce or aforementioned brick and mortar and fired sand clear partitions
wow what a lame example of democrat idiocy or rather regime speak
can not believe the people are for this regime
as they act like college students on spring break
no rules just fun right
this is a democrat liberal speak for equity
how’s that criminal justice reform working for you now
Nice to see one of the guilty get what she has created for the rest of us. No sympathy for karma and payback. HaHa to the two-faced libs.
Just heard on the news there is a reward being offered but nowhere in the media can I find a description of the suspects.
Just another example of the 13% doing what they do best, I’m sure.
Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving former hated (by me) so-called “Progressive” DemoRat.
Do you actually need a description of a mugger in Oakland. He had on dark clothing and a hoodie. He was between 18 and 30. That should work.
Don’t quote me but early on I believe they said it was a black man who jumped out of a car grabbed the cell and got back in the car with another black person driving.
hahahahahahahahahaha.
She deserved it
Thanks for the discussion. When I first learned of this, I was neutral. After reading this forum, I think it might be some good karma. When someone makes idiotic choices in their own lives, they experience the consequences. Democrat politicians make idiotic choices that the rest of us have to endure but they themselves do not see. Boxer is already out of politics, but for just one moment she had to experience some of the dysfunctional world her political party brought to us.
Well said To Do List
Think the victims should be compensated by the state that is failing in criminal prosecutions including capital punishment. My dog was put down with no pain. Includes petty theft to murder.
It’s turning into a jungle. We deserve better government and to live in a civilized society where the victims have more rights than the criminals.
No one deserves what happened to her, having said that she and the Democrats created the world that she had first hand experience with
Like I said before, only when those who are adversly affected by crime will things start to change. It is easy to say, lets make thieft a minor offense if the value is under 950.00 dollars when you live behind a gated locked wall. If these rule makers were to get ripped off multiple times they would think a bit differently.
I have the solution so listen up! Let’s defund the police but most importantly ban all cell phones . Cell phones are responsible and caused this. The subject are not at all responsible and I hope they are not arrested. Defund Oakland police and decrease the patrols in the areas. Blame cell phones companies and actually let’s sue the company who made her phone. Problem solved!!!
“Without threat of substantial period of incarceration,
there is NO deterrence of criminal activity.”
Odd that they only took the phone…. maybe there is info on it that someone needed and that was the real target?
She is a registered agent of China you know…..
Boxer registered as a foreign agent providing “strategic consulting services” to the Chinese surveillance firm Hikvision’s U.S. subsidiary:
The state-owned China Electronics Technology Group is Hikvision’s controlling stakeholder. Hikvision cameras have been installed at internment camps in Xinjiang, where more than a million Uighurs are estimated to have been imprisoned or subjected to forced labor.
Oh well…… it’s a living.
A registered foreign agent, employee of the lobbying firm, Mercury Public Affairs representing the Chinese state owned China Electronics Technology Group and their US subsidiary Hikvision’s, was mugged in Oakland.
Muggers did not take her purse or jewelry, didn’t demand money, just grabbed her phone & sped off.
Seems a bit odd dosen’t it?
Sorry about the double post… thought I lost that one but here it is.
Mr. Mayor you can delete that last one if you like.
How cute. Look at you defending a registered foreign agent of china.
Please jimmy, tell me about ashli babbitt.
And the officer brutally murdered with a fire extinguisher 🙄
Morals? In the democrat party? On this blog?
Haw!
But you had no issues when it comes to conservatives.
Some of those officers should have opened fire on protesters.
108RS
Sam, How does do you come to the conclusion that an elderly lady (me) who works retail, who immigrated here willingly, who stayed here since I arrived in 1967, even though the plan was to stay for one year, is a registered foreign agent? Quite a leap. I guess it is impossible for you to imagine that someone that is not a far right wing, can still love the US and happy that I decided to stay here, although I could easily have moved back to my native country several times.
@hanne
I was talking about barbara boxer. I do not think you are a registered foreign agent. Are you? I think you are an honest decent lady who doesn’t quite understand the level of corruption that Americans are up against. I believe you are well intentioned and mor often then not appreciate your point of views, even though we don’t agree.
Jimmy boy on the other hand has severe TDS and is probably lost forever. Bye jimmy.
Barb is working as a registered foreign agent, employee of the lobbying firm, Mercury Public Affairs representing the Chinese state owned China Electronics Technology Group and their US subsidiary Hikvision’s.
They make security systems… the very same ones used at internment camps in Xinjiang, where more than a million Uighurs are estimated to have been imprisoned or subjected to forced labor.
I guess she’s not picky about who she works for… but I gotta wonder why an 80 year old woman worth millions of dollars still needs to work? Or maybe there’s a bigger reason than money that compels her?
Thank You. I believe what goes around comes around. . I have been robbed it is not a pleasant experience. I do not wish it on ANYBODY, no matter their political leanings.
I don’t know jimmy, is that what she is? I guess we will have to wait and see. You think I don’t know what you are. That’s funny. You’re supposed to be smarter then that. I guess they still need to work out the bugs.
There’s a $2000 reward out there for identification of the suspect; yet why does this not happen with any other robbery suspect? Don’t they have the same rights.
/sarcasm off/
It’s all about politics….
That and failure to pay attention to your surroundings….because “it’ll never happen to me…”
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