A Brutal Series Of Film Related Robberies Are Plaguing California
When an area becomes a popular place to film it can attract two types of surges, the good, with things like an increase in tourism or, the bad, with an increase crime. Recently, there has been a lot of the later in southern California. Over the past two years there has been a huge jump in crime targeting film crews and it’s something we all need to talk about. At 8 am on Sunday, July 16th, 71 year-old Ed French, a well known fixture in commercial production, was scouting locations for a commercial at the Twin Peaks Overlook in San Francisco. What started out as a beautiful morning quickly turned into a nightmare. French was approached by an African American man with shoulder-length dreadlocks and a woman in her late teens. The two strangers shot French and took his camera and equipment before fleeing the area in a dark gray Honda Accord, a witness reported to police. This has happened
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