“I told you LA was finished,” 50 Cent wrote on Instagram Sunday. “They are gonna have to lock the doors, appointment only. SMH.”

The post comes after authorities confirmed to The Messenger that more than 30 people entered the Nordstrom store in the Westfield Topanga Shopping Center on Saturday just after 4 p.m. local time and grabbed more than $300,000 worth of merchandise in minutes.

[Urban centers are finished if local governments and police forces don’t start aggressively disincentivizing these crimes. This isn’t shoplifting; it’s looting. Until cities counter it, retail businesses will flee, and so will their tax revenues. — Ed]