A clothing store in Beverly Hills, California, has banned face masks due to difficulties in identifying robbery suspects.
Staffers at Kitson’s have said they’ve noticed a growing number of people coming to the store who are looking to shoplift while wearing face masks, KTLA reported. Some people have also worn masks at the store while harassing or assaulting others.
“The mask mandate may have begun as a health precaution but we believe it is now being used by some people for nefarious purposes. To that end, we enacted our own mandate of sorts,” Fraser Ross said in a statement, according to KTTV in Los Angeles.