Posted on 06/24/2009 6:37:46 PM PDT by blueyon
Los Angeles police released security video today that captures unruly celebrants of the Lakers NBA finals victory helping themselves to merchandise at a Shell gas station convenience store blocks from the Staples Center.
The footage, shot June 14 by a security camera at the rear of the store in the 600 block of West Olympic Boulevard, shows a group of about two dozen men swarming the store and helping themselves primarily to juice, soda and energy drinks in a large cooler.
The mob shouted, “Free soda, free soda” as they grabbed merchandise in a two-minute rush in which they also smashed bottles on the floor, trampled bananas, knocked over display racks and broke a window. A YouTube video shows dozens of people assembled outside the gas station.
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How and when did we become Detroit?
You would think we had gotten refugees from NOLA 10 years ago or so. In the West and Magic days we had class.
No more.
That's a new one.
I hate to say this but the looters appear to be primarily Amish and Mennonites.
These are good patriotic Obama voters. They’re just transferring the wealth to it’s rightful owners.
“unruly celebrants”
thugs, punks, criminals . . . too harsh??? “unruly celebrants”?
“You would think we had gotten refugees from NOLA 10 years ago or so. In the West and Magic days we had class.”
The Rodney King riots were in 1992...
No Methodists...they go after cash registers...
A textbook Obama-organized community project.
I know it will be considered racist by the race-mongers, but just compare the celebrants with the teams and look at the L.A. basketball win celebration compared to the Penguins hockey win celebration . . . . .
Are we still a great country?
>The Rodney King riots were in 1992...
"Can't we all just get a foot-long?"
Excuse me..........did you forget the Rodney King riots?
The Watts riots?
freakin’ TCBE savages. they all belong in a cage of some sort.
That long ago? I remember driving home on the 110/101/405 and seeing all the smoke and stuff.
I guess you are right. The black community has grabbed every chance to just be open thugs since then, since they saw they got away with it and continue to do so.
>>Excuse me..........did you forget the Rodney King riots?
The Watts riots?<<
Which Laker win prompted those?
Remember 1968.
I was trying to figure that one out myself! speaking of the GREAT Jerry West, I have not followed the nba since he retired.
The authorities should present the Lakers franchise with the entire bill for damages, and furnish them with the surveillance tape so that they can pursue their “fans” for damages pursuant to civil law.
That way the good ratepayers of Los Angeles won’t be stuck paying for the foolishness and damage caused by the “fans” of professional sports franchises, and the professional sports franchises will be incentivized, as good corporate citizens, to curb, monitor and contain the enthusiasm of their hooligan “fans” — or pass along the costs of their damages where they most logically belong: onto ticket prices and licensed products.
They could declare basketball a hazardous nuisance and make the team post $100 million bond. It’s probably not legal, but it sounds fun.
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