Los Angeles streets are open to gangs, cartels, drug dealers, illegal aliens, the homeless and vicious criminals, without consequence. Now we find the cops are unable to keep the streets opened and safe. It takes the LAPD 45 minutes to stop gangs setting fire to cars and vandalizing buses.
“Cars were burned, and a bus was vandalized in downtown LA as two street takeovers occurred in the same area within 72 hours. Alex Rozier reports for the NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on Monday, July 7, 2024.
In a disturbing escalation of street takeovers, downtown LA witnessed two destructive events that left behind burning cars and a vandalized bus over the past three days.
The latest takeover occurred Monday morning at the intersection of Olympic Boulevard and Flower Street where participants vandalized a Metro bus with graffiti while passengers were still on board.”
Los Angeles is an OPEN WAR ZONE—and government will not protect you.
Street takeovers escalate in downtown LA with cars set ablaze, bus vandalized
As two illegal gatherings took place in the span of 72 hours, a witness said police took about 45 minutes to respond to one of the incidents.
By Alex Rozier and Xuanjie Coco Huang, NBC NEWS LA, 7/1/24 https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/street-takeovers-escalate-downtown-los-angeles-cars-set-ablaze-bus-vandalized/3449970/
Cars were burned, and a bus was vandalized in downtown LA as two street takeovers occurred in the same area within 72 hours. Alex Rozier reports for the NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on Monday, July 7, 2024.
In a disturbing escalation of street takeovers, downtown LA witnessed two destructive events that left behind burning cars and a vandalized bus over the past three days.
The latest takeover occurred Monday morning at the intersection of Olympic Boulevard and Flower Street where participants vandalized a Metro bus with graffiti while passengers were still on board.
The crowd also tagged another nearby building with graffiti and attempted to break into a Starbucks on 9th Street.
Just two days before the incident, another takeover took place around 3 a.m. Saturday near the 10 freeway at 18th and Main Streets.
The massive takeover, which attracted 100 vehicles and 200 spectators, according to a witness, culminated in two cars being set on fire.
“These takeovers are getting out of hand,” the witness who declined to be identified said. “Police didn’t get here until 40 minutes, 45 minutes after [the takeover started.]”
Despite the LAPD having a task force in place to address these issues, no arrests were made in either of the incidents, as an unknown number of suspects took off.
Earl Ofari-Hutchinson, a community member, was frustrated by the lack of accountability.
“You’ve got to make arrests, you’ve got to impound and you’ve got to mean it,” he said, “Street takeovers are organized. They don’t just happen. When you have hundreds of people that converge on an area, that’s an organization. With law enforcement, they have to be equally organized. Unfortunately I have not seen that.”
The LAPD has yet to comment on these recent incidents or their plans to address the ongoing issue of street takeovers in Los Angeles.
These people that are taking over the streets, setting cars ablaze, vandalizing, etc are not criminals. They are misunderstood individuals that are expressing themselves. Send in Social Services people who will report back to the public at large, why these people are so misunderstood. This will not fix anything but it will make the politicians happy because they will be able to claim they are doing something.