Posted on 06/17/2010 10:46:31 PM PDT by Chet 99
June 17, 2010 | 10:08 pm
A huge contingent of Los Angeles Police Department officers were trying to maintain order Thursday night as some Lakers fans roamed downtown, jumping on cars, smashing windows and throwing rocks.
LAPD officer fired less-than-lethal weapons at a group of people who threw pieces of concrete at them.
Cars trying to make their way through the intersection of 9th and Hope streets were mauled by fans banging on their windows. Police approached on horseback and then riot police pressed into the crowd. The crowd retreated, knocking off side-view windows of cars and lighting fireworks as they went.
At 9th and Flower streets, a crowd bashed in the windows at the condo loft tower and ripped down the barriers that had been set up at the street. Then they swarmed a pickup truck at the intersection. Ten men hopped on top of it.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
Any guess on who these rioting “Lakers fans” supported in the 2008 presidential election?
Or, as it's more commonly known, Thursday.
Nice racist implications there pitbull guy.
:: snort ::
Eh, whatever. He’s probably right.
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Man, them Amish.
They sure get excitable, don’t they??
Asians can be so unruly.
Isn’t L.A. home to lots of Asians?
Be funny if some hacker had broadcast on the PA system as people were leaving that Prez Obama had just been assassinated by a middle-aged white guy.
That would have REALLY livened things up.
didnt see that when my chicago blackhawks won the cup!!! go hawks!!!!!!
Definitely Amish.
Where are the “racist implications” in suggesting that the rioters were most likely Obama voters?
Hey, any minute now they’ll be like setting their own beards on fire and whipping them buggies up to a disastrous 24MPH or so!!
It’s every man for himself!!
So ulra-liberal Angelinos DIDN'T support Obama?
Or are you implying, out of hurt feewings over someone who posts about dogs, that Lakers fans who riot MUST all be black?
Nice racist assumption there.
See? Tavis Smiley was right!
Hey, I lived through the sixties, and saw the busloads of people going into the cities to “express themselves”.
And there is one thing I can tell you.
It WASN’T the white folks!
So draw your own dam conclusions.
Nah... just 90% black... After all, it was a basketball tournament. I know that this is not PC, but everyone knows that it was NOT a heavily white riot... We are just not suppose to say it out loud...
A rabid pit bull queer?
as the liberal reporters say they are celebrating!
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