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Three people were arrested while the majority, some wearing ski masks and wielding crowbars, got away from the theft at the Nordstrom store.

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. -- About 80 people, some wearing ski masks and wielding crowbars, ransacked a high-end department store in the San Francisco Bay area, assaulting employees and stealing merchandise before fleeing in cars waiting outside, police and witnesses said.

About 80 people, some wearing ski masks and wielding crowbars, ransacked a high-end department store in the San Francisco Bay Area.

About 80 people, some wearing ski masks and wielding crowbars, ransacked a high-end department store in the San Francisco Bay Area, assaulting employees and stealing merchandise before fleeing in cars waiting outside, police and witnesses said.

A rash of brazen robberies have occurred in the area, all committed by groups of thieves. One group was said to have up to 80 people, according to a witness.

Authorities say a man wielding a knife was fatally shot by police inside a residential building in San Francisco Friday

Cellphone video from the scene showed some of the roughly 80 masked people streaming out of the store, carrying bags and boxes, jumping into the cars and fleeing the scene. 

More than a dozen individuals partook in a brazen burglary of the Louis Vuitton location at 233 Geary Street Friday night — taking the store's on-display inventory before police arrived.

Cellphone video from the scene showed some of the roughly 80 masked people streaming out of the store, carrying bags and boxes, jumping into the cars and fleeing the scene. 

Three people were arrested while the majority got away after the large-scale theft Saturday night shocked shoppers at the Nordstrom at the Broadway Plaza outdoor mall in Walnut Creek, police said in a statement Sunday.