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I think she did not want to be identified but spoke to police etc. If the restaurant was busy maybe no one would notice and someone could sit down etc. I don't know this restaurant or what they do there, it's a burger place so I assumed it would be less formal, but maybe not. If so, someone seated him and will maybe be able to id him.

Quote from the article linked above: it was in a hotel, maybe in a restaurant there...

"WASHINGTON — Three days before Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's handbag was stolen while she dined out at a Washington restaurant, another woman eating with her own family at a nearby eatery had her purse taken in a similar manner, records show.

NBC News discovered the similarities in the two incidents after it requested reports of thefts in the neighborhood from Washington police.

It’s not clear whether the two incidents are connected, but the victim in the first purse snatching believes they are.

“I’m shocked at the similarity of the crime,” she told NBC News when she described how her purse was stolen Thursday at a restaurant in the downtown Westin Hotel."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kristi-noem-purse-rcna202492

If you read the article there are a lot more details.. it happened while she was eating with her family... he dumped some of her items including her health ins card in another place nearby and they called her.