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Several arrests were made after violence and looting broke out in Los Angeles after the Dodgers’ World Series victory

Several arrests were made after violence and looting broke out in Los Angeles after the Dodgers’ World Series victory

LOS ANGELES (KABC) — More arrests were made after violence and looting broke out in the Los Angeles area overnight as the region celebrated a Dodgers win eighth World Series title in franchise history.

Several crowds popped up around the city — Whittier Boulevard in East LA, downtown, near Dodger Stadium in Elysian Park and more — to celebrate the championship win. while most holidays remained peaceful and festivethings got out of hand in places.

East LA fans celebrated the Dodgers winning the World Series. An illegal assembly was later declared by the authorities.

Around 12:30 a.m. Thursday, the LAPD reported that a “hostile crowd” surrounded an MTA bus and tried to set it on fire near Sunset and Echo Park Avenue. Metro officials said the bus operator and five passengers on board the bus managed to evacuate before it caught fire.

“Metro is disappointed and angered by the senseless act of vandalism on one of our buses following the Dodgers’ World Series win earlier this evening,” the transit agency said in a statement.

No arrests were made in that incident, but six people were taken into custody after a group broke into a Nike store in downtown LA and stole boxes of merchandise.

Some people near a Dodgers celebration were seen entering what appeared to be a Nike store and leaving with boxes of merchandise.

The LAPD went on tactical alert around 9 p.m. Wednesday as large crowds gathered elsewhere in the city. AIR7 was overhead and captured fans in Dodger gear, waving flags and taking over intersections.

Just after 11 p.m., police on horseback and dozens of other people in riot gear began trying to clear a crowd near Broadway and 5th Street downtown.

AIR7 also caught several instances of street takeovers, with the car doing donuts and burnouts.

The tactical alert was canceled around 3:00 a.m. Thursday morning.

In addition to the six people who were arrested for robbery, police say two were arrested for failure to disperse and four others were arrested for stolen property.

A police officer was taken to the hospital, but details about the cause or that officer’s condition were not available.

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