The Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series against the New York Yankees Wednesday, but rowdy celebrations led to hostile crowds throwing objects at police and several arrests.
Los Angeles Police ordered the dispersal of a crowd near 9th Street and Flower Street, which led some in the crowd to toss fireworks and other projectiles at the officers, per an LAPD post on X. The crowd kept moving and ended up near 8th Street and Broadway, where some of the looting purportedly took place, police said in a second post.
Another crowd threw projectiles at police near Grand Avenue and Olympic Boulevard, and yet another crowd surrounded a Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority bus and lit it on fire at about 12:35 a.m. Thursday, according to other posts on X from the LAPD.
There were a total of 12 people arrested over the course of the night on charges of looting, vandalism, and one DUI crash, LAPD told Los Angeles CBS affiliate KCBS-TV.
Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna pinned the disorder on “a very small segment of east Los Angeles communities,” and said that most people out in L.A. on Wednesday night were “celebrating because they love their Dodgers,” according to ESPN.
The team came back from deficits twice in Game 5 against the Yankees, tying it at 5-5 in the top of the fifth inning and overcoming a 6-5 deficit in the top of the eighth inning to take a 7-6 lead that they held for the rest of the game.
It is the fourth title the Dodgers have won against the New York Yankees going back to the 1955 World Series when the team was in Brooklyn, and the eighth title for the franchise overall.
The planned victory parade Friday will be the first championship parade held in L.A. for the Dodgers since 1988; they did not get one for their 2020 World Series title due to COVID-19 restrictions.
• Brad Matthews can be reached at bmatthews@washingtontimes.com.
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