Looting Lakers Fans - Celebration turns to riot at Shell Station

This video shows revelers turned rioters, mosty wearing Kobe Bryant jerseys, looting the Shell Station on Olympic and Grand, Downtown Los Angeles. The crowd was growing at this corner with things escalating for a long time with zero police presence before the looting broke out. People took over the intersection, cars were doing brake stands, people on top of cars, throwing things, shooting off fire works, etc. The looting ended more than 20 minutes before the police showed up, though there were dozens of police just down the street doing nothing. The police presence was sporadic and unorganized at best, it was embarrassing. The crowds were small, I didn't see more than a few hundred or so in any given place, yet the police had zero where chaos broke out. At one point earlier, after the police aggressively pushed a crowd back using a few motorcycles dozens of people threw bottles at the police, and I did see them manage to arrest one person. For the most part the crowds were small and peaceful and that was a good thing as the Police couldn't respond to, let along handle the few outbreaks I saw. Though, I must give a lot of credit to the police for not using rubber bullets and bean bags, no scary shields either. Video shot on a jailbroken iPhone at 10:08PM on 06.14.09 by Jason McCabe

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• looting
• riot
• lakers
• championship
• 2009
• fans
• shell
• gas
• station
• los
• angeles
• downtown
• olympic
• grand

[M2Canes]

Go Lakers!!!!

Los Angeles is bankrupt!!!

Go Lakers!!!

[madman1326]

those motherfuckers should be shot on site. sort it out later!

[eric8542011]

California should secede. A bunch of sad excuses for Americans.

[eric8542011]

@cannedkitty, fuck Los Angeles and fuck California. Lakers fans are nothing but thugs. They're scum. Not only does this video prove it but your comment does as well.

[redrumAmystikal]

all u bitches aree just hating cause u werent there , u pussies, i was there and it was MAGICAL, i hope the dodgers win this one so we could trash the shit outta rthe city again,, u bitches wish u were a part of tha mobb lolz,,, we own the streets

[TheOLDSCHOOL619]

@steven2be2003 not even LA is not the only nba city chicago, detroit, new york, and boston and many more riots too

[steven2be2003]

LA is the only nba city that riots after a championship!! fuckin losers

[bluesharkwvl]

yeah we won the finals and we are so happy that we will destroy are own city.

How stupid can you be !!!! LOSERS

[MrBlenderMan]

LOL notice no racial comments when there's a bunch of white boys looting.

[WasteTime4Passwords]

I was done with this pissing contest over 20 years ago. Glad I moved. I won't dare to go anywhere and do anything just because I feel a need to trip over myself, to convince myself that crapctivities don't really suck. You win, LA. I suck. You rock. I'm a loser who only seeks wealth for a life of luxury, and you can seek wealth for the chance to steal a two-dollar pack of Hostess sponge-cakes.

[animegamer77]

This is why LA sucks.

[LandOfAryan]

@samoanmuli anyone i dare anyone to come to laker game and wear other teams jersey you will get fucked up. just like this that game to a dodgers game wearing a giants hat rite now hes a in a coma with a cracked skull