The Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series against the New York Yankees on Wednesday, but raucous celebrations resulted in hostile crowds throwing objects at police and several arrests.
According to an LAPD post on X, after police ordered the dispersion of a crowd around 9th Street and Flower Street, several members of the mob threw fireworks and other missiles at the cops. According to authorities, the mob continued to move and eventually arrived between 8th Street and Broadway, where part of the looting allegedly occurred.
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Another crowd threw missiles at officers between Grand Avenue and Olympic Boulevard, and another crowd surrounded a Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority bus and set it on fire around 12:35 a.m. Thursday, according to LAPD posts on X.
The LAPD reported Los Angeles CBS station KCBS-TV that 12 people were arrested throughout the night on allegations of looting, vandalism, and one DUI crash.
According to ESPN, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna blamed the disturbance on “a very small segment of east Los Angeles communities,” and stated that the majority of people in L.A. on Wednesday night were “celebrating because they love their Dodgers.”
In Game 5 against the Yankees, the team rallied from two deficits, drawing it 5-5 in the top of the fifth inning then overcoming a 6-5 disadvantage in the top of the eighth inning to grab a 7-6 lead that they maintained for the rest of the game.
It marks the Dodgers’ fourth title versus the New York Yankees, dating back to the 1955 World Series in Brooklyn, and the franchise’s eighth overall.
A planned triumph parade Friday will mark the Dodgers’ first championship parade in Los Angeles since 1988; they did not have one for their 2020 World Series victory due to COVID-19 regulations.