Lakers Fans Celebrate Championship with Civil Unrest, Petty Vandalism, and Some Looting
Courts, Legal, Fans, NBA June 15th. 2009, 9:00am
Twenty-five arrests? You call that a celebration? Weak. Guess its difficult to expect chaos and anarchy from a city full of front-running fans.
Comparing championship arrests:
* only 22 arrests in Boston last year after the Celtics won their first title in 22 years
* 76 arrests after the Phillies won the World Series in 2008
* Pittsburgh’s a town where you can expect some real social disorder: 83 arrests after the Steelers won the Super Bowl
We’re a bit disappointed, LA. When the extent of the tumult is “damaging police cruisers, throwing rocks and bottles at officers and setting bonfires in the street,” you kind of just shrug your shoulders and wonder if that’s really any different than a normal weekend in, say, Detroit, St. Louis or Oakland.
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June 15th, 2009 at 9:03 am
Maybe because my team’s haven’t won anything in over a decade, but I simply don’t understand why people riot when their team wins something. I just don’t see how the two are connected.
June 15th, 2009 at 9:03 am
The video is a lot worse than 25 arrests. Best part: reporter asks “whats that smell” answer: “marijuana”
June 15th, 2009 at 9:15 am
Can’t we all just get along?
They’re not necessarily connected, but championship + alcohol + bottom feeders + excuse to loot and throw shit at police = last night
June 15th, 2009 at 9:21 am
Yeah…from the videos I saw it looks like Hollywood’s elite weren’t the ones kicking newspaper stands.
June 15th, 2009 at 9:25 am
Twenty-five arrests? You call that a celebration? Weak
Maybe b/c the Lakers win so much they’ve learned to riot without getting arrested? I lived in SoCal for Shaq/Kobe titles. I saw a limo get flipped and set on fire within seconds of one of those titles. Props!
I think the L.A. post-championship scene is more setting fires (i.e. flipping a car and setting it a blaze), than violent rioting per se.. .FWIW
June 15th, 2009 at 9:26 am
I bet Reginald Denny kept his ass inside last night
June 15th, 2009 at 9:27 am
who needs a haircut?
this guy
June 15th, 2009 at 9:27 am
Hard to believe that if you are looking for a model of decorum and civility following a championship, look no farther than the great city of New York.
June 15th, 2009 at 9:28 am
Yes TBL, we have weekly riots here in Detroit. It’s a wonder that I am still alive. Thanks for perpetuating a very tired sterotype.
June 15th, 2009 at 9:33 am
who needs a haircut?
this guy
tbl: flew through fast. think you were in another (57-58???).
kinda funny the place looks like a basement in the pics. Fit the sytle i guess.
What was the purpose??
What
June 15th, 2009 at 9:34 am
**man, I need a new keyboard
June 15th, 2009 at 9:36 am
Also, when SEC teams win championships
/our crazy drunken shit is spread out over 4 months instead
June 15th, 2009 at 9:42 am
sports blogger convention. it was in the basement. of a bar.
June 15th, 2009 at 9:44 am
I guess all of you got your moms’ cars because this was the weekend she went out of town.
June 15th, 2009 at 9:46 am
I wouldn’t know what you’re talking about.
/Georgia fan’d
//Dammit!
June 15th, 2009 at 9:50 am
* 76 arrests after the Phillies won the World Series in 2008
* Pittsburgh’s a town where you can expect some real social disorder: 83 arrests after the Steelers won the Super Bowl
So you’re saying we should hope Penn State doesn’t win the BCS or we are likely to see University Park burn to the ground?
Also, when SEC teams win championships
/our crazy drunken shit is spread out over 4 months instead
Fans at Death Valley, The Swamp or any other SEC school are partying every weekend — win or lose.
June 15th, 2009 at 10:00 am
I knew as soon as I saw the headline that there would be an ignorant reference to Detroit. Way to be clever.
June 15th, 2009 at 10:00 am
2003–I was so emotionally spent from that season and the BCS/AP controversy that I went to a bar in New Orleans, had a couple of beers, and went to bed.
/true story
2007–Not to be a smart ass, but we knew we were going to win. We partied more when Pitt beat West Virginia and we got in through the backest of doors.
/true story
June 15th, 2009 at 10:11 am
@Paris – From/still live in Detroit?
June 15th, 2009 at 10:18 am
@tkmsu – I live near Detroit, visit there quite often usually for Tigers, Lions, or Red Wings games.
June 15th, 2009 at 10:31 am
Thank goodness for more Michigan folk. This blogs readership has been heavy on the Ohio for far too long.
June 15th, 2009 at 10:38 am
go away maggs
June 15th, 2009 at 11:09 am
Weren’t you a Lakers fan, TBL?
You know, until Shaq left?
/whoops
June 15th, 2009 at 11:10 am
Thanks for the insight bob.
June 15th, 2009 at 11:25 am
here’s some more insight. you should change your gravatar to a coach who actually won something.
June 15th, 2009 at 11:30 am
The only reason why Eagles fans pretending to be Phillies fans like sports – so they can trash the city and perpetuate the lack-of classiness they possess
/clearly a bitter Mets fan
June 15th, 2009 at 11:47 am
Wow TBL Godfather a different side of you this week compared to last week on the overall lame side until this weekend …but perhaps you overcorrected?
Of course I am proud of you for mending that small number of errant ways of last week, but advocacy of public insurrection and destruction? Wow :O
June 15th, 2009 at 11:53 am
This post is a lie to begin with because there is no such thing as “Laker fans”. There are bandwagon “fans” who jump from team to team and they happened to notice the Lakers were the best team in the NBA. The people in LA got a nice 2 for 1 deal in that they could riot while pretending to be a “fan”.
June 15th, 2009 at 11:59 am
Nope. Many on here last night out of the woodwork. But plenty of fairweather Cleveland, err I mean Lebron, fans. Go fuck yourself and look at the trophy Duder. We’ll hold it up with pride and have a great shot, unlike Cleveland, to raise it again next year.
June 15th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
you kind of just shrug your shoulders and wonder if that’s really any different than a normal weekend in, say, Detroit, St. Louis or Oakland.
As a guy who moved to St. Louis FROM New Orleans, you really ought to be including The Big Easy on this list. I mean, if you think St. Louis is THAT bad, I can assure you N.O. is worse off.
June 15th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Right on Heldover — worst city in the South for sure with the worst “labour” pool — I did not even want to go there before Katrina.
June 15th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Mr. Bobdobalina,
Is that all you’ve got? A Bo blast? Take off the training wheels next time for me.
June 15th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
how to effectively trash talk by maggs:
bo never won a championship.
michigan has .5 championships in 60 years.
maggs is too young to remember it.
michigan has no quarterback.
michigan will never win more than 7 games in a season as long as rich rod is coach.
rich rod has bad hair plugs.
tim russert is dead.
June 15th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
/shakes keys
June 15th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Bob, You are not very good at this.
/and yes that is probably what she said.
June 15th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
In other news, go see some Britney tits in the Megan Fox post at the bottom