Moron alert: L.A. Lakers fans celebrate with riots, arson, attacks on police
Iranian youth risked their lives to protest election fraud.
L.A. youths set cars and buses on fire and took to the streets to riot…after their basketball team won:
And looters!
Compare and contrast:
(Photo source: LA Times)
(Photo source: Tehran Live)
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More expenditure of public funds for the state that is approaching financial meltdown.
A lot of people are going to be hurting Monday morning.
Send them all to Iran. At least, they’ll be doing some good with their riots there.
Sadly, this would only be news if we didn’t expect it.
Obama constituents exercising their free speech rights…
Maxine Waters takes to the tv screen and explains that these righteous basketball fans aren’t really “rioting,” but are instead looking for diapers and baby formula for their ‘lil ones…in three, two, one…
Cybill Shepherd runs to the Arsenio Hall Show (man, am I showing my age) to tell us that these righteous basketball fans aren’t “rioting,” but are actually “uprising.”
Come on now, most of those idiots are not real fans, they are just drunken fools looking for any reason to come together and cause trouble.
And congratulations on 15 titles Lakers
Lord, may we as a nation be worthy of the sacrifices of those who gave their lives on behalf of our liberties…
Engage in unCIVIL behavior. Destroy public / other people’s property.
If you got caught in the act, demand your CIVIL rights!
What a Country!!!!!
How DARE any of you condemn these people. You are all racists for even thinking that rioting, destruction of property and assault are bad things. You just don’t understand the rage these people have from events that took place 150 years ago!!
//sarc off..
You have to decide if my comments are about the stunt black people pulled last night or what white people may do if we allow the Statists to throw our nation in to a Socialist Autocracy.
The excuse of skin color to justify crimes is old and pathetic. Even animals know not to poop where they sleep.
Exactly how can you tell the difference between celebrating the Lakers and the citizen’s natural state of behavior?
Maybe these people are just upset about the election in Iran. The rigged election did make their “Goatgod” Obama look foolish.
any “sanctuary city” is bound to encourage the lawless.
Does anyone really believe ANY of the rioter voted for McCain?
LA has been essentially lawless since 1992. It wasn’t the establishment that ended the riots, it was Koreans and retired military who stopped the direct attacks. Order was not restored, but merely suspended. The riots continue, in slow motion.
I grew up in the 60s, 70s & 80s, and even in those years of rapid decay, there was still an idea that if you saw a crime occur, you should call the police and get the evildoers put behind bars away from society. Now those evildoers ARE society.
I recently saw a heart-rending news video on YouTube about an elderly woman in Detroit who had the last house standing on her block, the rest falling down from blight or taken over by crackhead squatters. “If I were to scream, who would hear me?” She died a few months later, her body on ice in the morgue for 4 months unclaimed. This is LA’s fate in 10 years.
UCLA fans did the same thing not too long ago after winning against USC. Kind of a case study in preparing competent adults as upstanding members of society in public vs private education.
It’s interesting but I didn’t hear about any of this going on in Pittsburgh when the Pens won the Stanley Cup Friday. You’d think with hockey’s violent history those fans would be the ones rioting in the streets.
Oh wait… there’s an obvious difference in the two sports fan bases that dare not speak its’ name.
Fortunately, the Lakers won. If they’d lost, people might have rioted, or something . . .
Looking at the photos in the link provided, I think that it would’ve been a nice gesture on the part of the shoe store owner whose store was broken into, to have a sales associate on hand to make sure the rioters were getting the correct size sneaker they were stealing. Wouldn’t want to raise any blisters while running from the cops.
Sadly, you took the words right out of my mouth.
I have been wondering, have the main core of perpetrators been identified?
No, I do not trust the media to do so unless the criminals are pro-lifers, Christians, Conservatives, Conservative women, Asians-Orientals, Israelis, or White males.
Question: With all the lefties being so distraught over “Diversity,” and pushing “Diversity” as if it were as important as air, why is there no Supreme Court mandate, or Congressional mandate, or Presidential Mandate, or Hollywood mandate that the NBA (National Basketball Association) “Diversify” and reflect the population of the USA?
As the NBA is now, they are over represented by black players.
They should have 12 to 13% black, instead of 80% or so, 13 to 14% Hispanic, a percentage of Asian-Oriental, and Caucasian.
There should be “Affirmative Action” for these other groups, in order to ensure that blacks do not dominate the NBA any longer, and consequently to ensure that other groups are more properly represented in the NBA.
I know that Democrats, liberals, leftists, and the black population would support such diversity legislation in order to regulate NBA player racial representation.
After all, if University of California, which has nine campuses, can say that they have too many Asian-Oriental students enrolled per the number of students in total, and that they are going to limit Asian-Oriental students in order to push diversity (even though Asian-Orientals EARNED their way in, have higher scholastic scores and achievement than any other ethnic group), then truly the NBA would allow white males, Asian males, Arab males, and Hispanic males to benefit from the NBA, and grant them the chance to earn millions per year playing basketball, just like majority black basketball players.
How many more reasons do we need to give California back to Mexico?
Sorry, that’s just a normal Saturday night in L.A. But you did get the “Moron” part right, they’re so stupid they forgot it was Sunday.
It’s not a riot or an “uprising”…
It’s an ACORN recruiting rally.
LOL, California is completely broke, they better get used to destruction when the welfare checks start getting smaller, or non-existent. I imagine Los Angeles will collapse first. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer state….”sarc”
Why didn’t THE MESSIAH put the word out to stop? HE is the ALL POWERFUL, ALL KNOWING, most magnificent human being ever! All he has to do is go on TV and say STOP!
Simple. He wanted these supporters of his to riot. If you can stop something like this from happening and you don’t….aren’t you complicit? After all, THEIR PRESIDENT IS BLACK. They certainly have nothing to fear from Holder & Co because we have seen how he gave the green light to black racist thugs (via a wink wink from ??).
Olberdork am I wrong about this?
I agree with your logic.
What a sad example of the welfare culture and attitude that permeates throughout LA. No one was surprised when they took to the streets after the Lakers win. It was expected.
CA is bankrupt both financially and morally.
1. Situations such as these are the other reason for the 2nd Amendment… (protection from the gov’t being the first.) I wonder as to the media reaction if a store owner would have stood behind his cash register with boomstick in hand, defending his livelihood.
2. This shows just how bankrupt the _____ culture is. (I use a blank there because accusations of racism follow whatever term I use in the blank’s stead.) If someone could fill the blank with the appropriate term, I’d appreciate it.
I agree with the commenter above. When sports teams win Championships in Boston, Philly, LA, Chicago, Detroit and Miami the natives get restless and rape, pillage and burn their own neighborhoods.
Pittsburgh wins the Super Bowl and Stanley Cup and the worst thing that happened is that they delay the opening of schools the next day to allow the fans to celebrate, not rape, pillage and burn their neighborhoods.
A good question to ask here, in the cities that I mentioned above, what political party controls most of the leadership positions in those cities? Bueller? Bueller? We’re waiting… BUZZZZZZZZ, Democrats! Why can’t the liberals control their own voters and supporters from raping and pillaging their own neighborhoods?
The pictures and videos show many types of people of all color looting and misbehaving. All of them should be in jail. It’s sad that California can’t do a thing since they are closing their jails and putting criminals back on the street. So the question is, Why not act like juveniles and loot the shoe stores and electronic stores so the next time LA makes a run at the championship everyone can watch on their new HDTV’s.
What a sad state we live in when the dumb masses act like this. Someone has to pay for this and guess what, WE ARE paying for this in higher insurance rates and the fact that some store owners will close their businesses and move somewhere else.
What has happened to Los Angeles? Where are the leaders? Hello? Is there anyone out there?
Thank God this was only ‘normal’ citizens rioting and looting. We can tolerate that. Let 3 abortion protestors gather on a street corner near a clinic and we will have to have an FBI investigation and police security for all who work at the clinic… plus a lenghthy exposé from the MSM telling us how dangerous and scary the right-wing is.
Can anybody explain to me why anybody with the means to leave California, and LA in particular, remains in that cesspool of a city and state? And I thought we had it bad here in Illinois! Even when the White Sox (spits) won the Series a few years back there wasn’t this kind of lawlessness.
They rioted because they won.
They would have rioted if they lost.
It’s just an excuse.
Maybe because there is no punishment for misbehavior? A person can get away with almost anything, even murder. Liberal judges, disregard for the law….
And don’t forget they are all victims of… something.
I blame the welfare system. Those least valuable alive are being paid to breed. We’re watering the weeds.
William #21: Sign me up! I’m a 51 year old overweight guy of mostly Scottish descent (sometimes more Scotch than others), and I’m suddenly feeling discriminated against. But I’ll make it easy for the NBA. Rather than a fat NBA contract, the simple application of large amounts of cash to my outstretched palm will be sufficient to sooth my distress.
Not to burst your bubble, but Mayor Luke Ravenstahl is a Democrat. So are the City Council members from Districts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. By the way, there are only nine districts in Pittsburgh.
On June 15th, 2009 at 8:47 am, Send_Me said:
Probably an anomaly…
But in reality, there are still places in America that people will still rise above their politics.
Why worry? All property owners will be compensated by their insurance companies and the owners will lie about the extent of damage and everyone’s insurance rates will rise. This is a win/win for the looters and the property owners. What we need is more riots, especially at the auto dealerships that Obama closed. I hope somebody got burned or cut on the glass. They can sue the owners of the property they destroyed. Everybody involved is a winner. The losers, as always, are the law-abiding citizens of this country.
Hey Send me, thanks for the update. Thank God there are Democrats that are in leadership positions in cities that are more peaceful than others when their teams in a Championship. Hell, Pittsburgh is doing much better than other cities in the rust belt. Maybe those Pitt leaders should head to Washington DC to help their fellow Democrats before it’s too late and we become a banana republic.
The main thing I am saying it’s time to hold someone accountable for this bad behavior. If this doesn’t stop soon our Governments will insist on pay backs from the Sports teams and leagues to pay to fix what the “fans” broke.
Just think sunset curfews, martial law, etc… Do we want this kind of nanny state? To quote a certain Southern California citizen.. Why can’t we all just get along? Because there are race baiters who would lose huge amounts of cash if that ever happened… Maybe we can get ACORN and the Black Panthers to help in security details after certain teams win Championships!
Obama is going to pay for our gas, mortgage, and tennis shoes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36×8rTb3jI
Laker fans show their solidarity with Iranian citizens by protesting the election results:
http://thelcabroadside.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/laker-fans-protest-iranian-election-results/
Has the NBA or anyone from the Lakers come out against this? I think condemnation from their “heros” might be a start.
As a typical White person, I take full blame for this. It’s all my fault for some reason. I feel so guilt-ridden I can barely live with myself. I think I’ll vote for the cool black dude next time!
Was there a riot after last year’s lost?
“….why anybody with the means to leave California, and LA in particular, remains in that cesspool of a city and state?”
The people who would leave likely can’t because they cannot unload the home they’e invested in. The rioters stay because the welfare benefits are so great.
but hey, let’s give a big attaboy shoutout for the spirit of integration in that mob. you have both black and white thugs pillaging in the streets. a democrat triumph of integration and tolerance.
C’mon, Y’all…they’re just doin’ that thug thizzle they so admire in the President.
Animalistic. That’s the only way to describe this behavior. This is not how a civilized society acts.
Not to get technically boring, but I do know a little about commercial insurance and underwriting in LA…since its my profession. Most property forms exclude “civil unrest” as a covered cause of loss. However, that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be challenged by the state’s disfunctional DOI.
– englishqueen
Total agreement. It seems to me that a strong entitlement mentality feeds this sort of behavior.
A bunch of disgusting hoods with no concept of self control or responsibility. They live everywhere, not just LA. They have been emboldened even more because of the corruption in DC. If the politicians can be so blatantly thuggish and break the law, and thwart the Constitution, how can we expect any better behavior from the welfare bums who voted them into power?
No, but I was called racist for worrying whether this might happen when Obama won the election. The pictures above prove that it isn’t a race thing.
So why aren’t there any politicians out there screaming that we must ban basketball?
Exactly.
They are just taking President Obama’s words to heart. Spreading the wealth around.
I saw last night on live TV they also looted a gas station. But I guess they stopped at the shoe store first in order to run faster from the cops.
I recall during the Rodney King riots, they burned down the local welfare office and, there was a picture the next day showing people standing in line in front of the destroyed building waiting to pick up their welfare checks.
Bet you all of those guys are ACORN members.
If you think the rioting was bad after the Lakers won the NBA championship, just wait until the Clippers win it!!
/sarc
Forget the Clippers-Just imagine what would happen if the Chicago Cubbies win the World Series.
Talk about a riot that would reach the four corners of the United States. Now just imagine if that same riot hit DC and Camp David simulataneously….
GSP
“Dissent is Patriotic-hrc”
City of Angels, my rear end.
Well they needed the shoes to walk 20 miles up hill each way to school to make a better life….oh, no, wait….
Yeah, their one fan will overturn his bicycle…
Yeah, their one fan will overturn his bicycle.
Oops, double post, sorry, I will now get another cup of coffee…
You’re absolutely correct. Perhaps Steve Bartman did the nation a big favor a few years ago…
How true, how true!
I was raised in S.L.City, never saw racism till I lived in L.A. for a short period of time, (thank god for that)and it wasn’t white against blacks either, it was the other way around. Seemed like they would flaunt it besides, the “old in your face crap” that dominates our culture now.
In LA, we know how to do riots. We riot for everything. This is just the second Lakers “test riot” before the big show on Wednesday. The first “test riot” was that spontaneous affair last Thursday after the Lakers won game 5. Yesterday’s “test riot” was the dress rehearsal. Wednesday is the official riot (parade) for which the city is planning to scale back security for budget reasons. (Can’t have a proper riot with all those cops getting in the way). Should be fantastic!
They are also engaged in “takeovers” by those actions, just as Obama and his cronies are engaged in takeovers.
Re the LA police, I thought it was against LA Police procedures and policies to do anything during riots, arsons, pillaging, and rapping en masse but to withdraw out of the area of the riots and let them take their course, leaving the innocent citizens and their property and businesses to be victimized, and possibly even murdered and destroyed.
That’s the way it has been in LA.
I give you the Rodney King court case ruling.
Do you think that perhaps such action, or lack thereof, on the part of the LA police and city government, and the State of California, can be used as a training tool for al Qaeda, Hamas, Hizzbollah, Mencha, la Raza, MG-13, etc?
Ha, ha, ha!!!!
Aloha guy,
That was funny. Your comment made me laugh.
Mahalo!
Maui no ka oi!
William
For any of you to label what’s going on in LA as rioting, you are wrong. Obviously the entire entitlement community is shopping…the Laker’s were on fire, and this is simply a “Fire Sale!”
Where’s Rodney King? “C-c-an’t we all just get a…deal?”
In a few months, unfortunately, this will be the norm in California, as towns, cities, and counties lay off police officers, as mine is planning to do. Ten police officers, and four support personnel, in a community whose force is already down seven replacement officers for those recently retired. And, Arnold wants to “borrow” $20 million from my community alone. He is also proposing to “borrow” 30+ million dollars from the Fish and Game coffers. Just so you know, “borrow” is Democrat legalese for “unlawful taking” under the guise of authority. Apparently, those LA Democrats collecting their new “kicks” understand that…so they are not stealing, they are “borrowing.”
The imbeciles running this state should be held accountable for what comes next. Proposals to cut police, fire, and education (note: NOT teachers), while allowing all programs to help illegal immigrants continue.
Yeah, the Governator has also suggested releasing prisoners into the general population. How did that work out for New Orleans during Katrina…you know, that crisis that keeps on giving?
What’s next? Marshall Law?
They weren’t ‘rioting’–that sounds like they needed an excuse to loot…they were celebrating the victory by treating themselves to anything they felt like. It’s entitlement, baby. Get used to it, cracker.
I live in Los Angeles, and have never liked the Lakers. They are a classless organization, from Kobe Bryant elbowing opposing players in the face to Pau Gasol celebrating a winning basket by chest bumping an opponent.
The behavior by the fans does not surprise me.
My closest friends are Laker fans, and am glad they were not part of the rioting.
I just hope the parade does not bring traffic to a standstill.
eric aka the Tygrrrr Express
http://www.tygrrrrexpress.com
hey jerome I saw you on tv last night carrying shoe boxes from a store that was being looted, ask me no questions and I’ll tell you no lies.
Entitlement and moral relativism.
No doubt not one of these rioters thought his/her actions were wrong or immoral, based on their own personal definition of fun and right/wrong.
they have no perception of immorality; they are completely amoral.
Well and succinctly put.
jbh45, Thanks for the clarification. I didn’t know that. Guess that would discourage you from doing business in one of these areas unless you have a shotgun. But then, I bet you can apply for some grant that will pay for your rebuilding, i.e., you end up dependent on the government and they can set your profit margin.