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Subscribe to RSSLOS ANGELES -- At least three people were shot during Halloween celebrations that became unruly in Hollywood late Wednesday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
The shooting occurred shortly before 10 p.m. local time (1 a.m. ET) near the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Whitley Avenue, Los Angeles police Sgt. Andrew Chao told City News Service.
A 17-year-old boy was shot in the chest and leg, and taken to the hospital in critical condition, Chao told CNS. A 14-year-old boy was shot in the foot and a 25-year-old man was struck in the buttocks, Chao said. The pair was transported to the hospital.
It was not immediately clear whether the shooter or shooters were apprehended, though aerial footage of the scene showed at least two people being detained by LAPD officers.
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Officers were already deployed in the area due to Halloween celebrations. Unruly crowds began to form up and down Hollywood Boulevard throughout the night, and it appeared that as soon as officers stabilized one area, another area would erupt in violence. Early reports suggested revelers were fighting and throwing bottles.
Dozens of cops in riot gear started responding to Hollywood and Highland shortly after 10 p.m.
Largely-costumed crowds spilled into traffic, ran in between cars and confronted officers starting as early as 9:30 p.m.
A skirmish line of mounted officers was briefly stationed at the intersection of Hollywood and Wilcox. Throngs of officers on mounted patrol, bicycles and motorcycles descended on the area. Several LAFD crews were also on scene.
Halloween celebrations in Hollywood pale in comparison to those in adjacent West Hollywood, where some 400,000 people were expected to attend the annual Costume Carnaval.
Still, Hollywood has become an increasingly popular spot for Halloween revelers and hundreds lined the streets Wednesday night.
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Nothing says Trick or Treat better than degenerates shooting people. Hey you gang bangers out there, get a life and stop killing people! Your sideways aiming a gun usually hits someone other than your intended target.
Why blame gangbangers? Every day is Halloween on Hollywood Boulevard.
For the past decades, Southern California has descended into a Holloween nightmare. Blue and white collar crimes have become synonymous with the raping of Los Angeles.
As powerful police and fire labor unions with their corrupt politicians awarded generous wage and benefit contracts, the Los Angeles City has been insolvent as many decades despite 'creative' revenue enhancement such as fee-for-government services that were once the reason for government's existence ; expedient regulations that requires City inspection fees and fines; and aggressive petty traffic enforcement coupled with heavy penalties.
Despite the increased revenues supposedly to fund the police department, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is known not for reducing crime but a fraternity of psychopaths who brutalize citizens and sometimes even kill the innocent rather protecting the residents, and the lazy-do-nothing patrolmen who ride around in their air-conditioned vehicles pretending to "Protect and To Serve," or loitering around their favorite donut shops.
Business owners have become so distrustful of the LAPD's effectiveness and characters that almost every large and medium business from Malls to large shopping centers to medium size town centers to even the local supermarkets have hired private guards to protect business, employees, and customers. If effect, the business owners are forced to pay twice for peace of mind: wages to private security guards and taxes to the LAPD.
The combination of a perverted City government and high crimes have turned Los Angeles into the late stages of Detroit as WhiteFlight has left the City in desperation for human and financial capital. Like Detroit, the urban blight and fright have spread beyond the City's infamous South Central into adjacent areas such as Hollywood, Mid-City and beyond as the disease has quicken. In contrast to Detroit's reverting to a green urban farm, Los Angeles will be reverting to the beige semi-acrid desert from which it had sprung. While Detroit is already dead and buried, Los Angeles is breathing its last breath just before the start of rigor-mortis.
good job wallstreet
mornin Bill
gm Tramp,
"Once more into the breach!"
GM Bill and Scooter
Seems LA is doing things similar to Detroit's Hell Night in the past - starting fires and all kinds of stuff. LA takes it 1 step further with the shootings!
I remember as a kid there was Soap night on 29th where we soaped windows with "cute" messages, then the 30th was Mischief night - things like ring the doorbell and a flaming bag of dog doo for the resident to stomp out, but man, now they are taking it over the top with 400K people at the event in LA, that is larger than most cities, population-wise. Wonder if they would qualify those incidents under the UCR for just the area of Hollywood?
Hey..C'mon...it's Hollyweird and L.A. It's not a party till someone gets shot!! Besides, I actually think this was a stunt to promote the new Red Dawn movie!
Did anyone hear shouts of "WOLVERINES!!!" ??
a remake? the original was good, bet the re-make sucks, they always do....
gm jack
I haven't been in any state or city that this wasn't the case, you seem to think this in LA is unusual. No matter how effective cops are crime will never go away, it's committed for its own reason not because the cops are ineffective.
Just think if this happened in Florida. There would be a defense that the shooter feared for his life because a vampire was about to attack him. He would probably walk with Florida's stand your ground law. So you can blame ineffectiveness for LA's crime but in Florida you can blame the law.
Scooter
The remake Red Dawn has the Chinese invade US rather than the Russians/Cubans in the original. I'll probably wait until it is on cable to view and critique it rather than spend $$ to see it. The original had a great story line!
Not China - the invader is N. Korea this time. The original had a mixed message that was lost on most viewers. it started with the familiar 'armed citizens will stop the invasion with their hunting rifles' theme. However it then evolved into the more realistic theme that a small band of armed citizens are ineffective against military weapons and tactics. If you recall, it took the arrival of a million Chinese troops to repel the invasion and by then the little guerrilla group was down to its last 2 fighters.
Robert 619
Thanks for the catch regarding DRNK rather than PRC. I do remember reading that and still have a tough time how the NK could possible mount the transport to Invade US. Albeit, they have the manpower.
Ban handguns.
Blame the fool, not the tool.
....a lot of accidental shootings, you "MOR-ON" Anyways people live day to day without guns. Just 'cops' need guns
.....Jeff is a Cholo
Ahhhh, name calling. The mark of a thoughtful, well reasoned and persuasive argument.
Ban Stupidity.......
gm Scooter, Just another day in the land of fruits and nuts.
GM Jack, Scooter and Bill,
Amazing how those without an intelligent response revert back to kindergarten debate club tactics isn't it?
Note to self: EVERY gun used over the last 50 years in an act of violence in America was put into society as a result of the NRA marketing strategy. Any dissenting voices?
gm pan, tracy,
and yes Tracy amazing yet totally predictable.
not with most of this group tex.....sarcasm works with some of us.. but not with many on here wait and see....
Anti-gunners are as predictable as the sun coming up in the morning--any time there is a mention of a gun involved, they pounce like the brainwashed lemmings they are. There was an article recently where a 12 year old girl defended herself with a firearm and the antis still bitched and moaned. Hatred/fear of inanimate objects is a sure sign of low cognitive abilities. You can't fix stupid.
Yep. How many guns has the NRA sold in the last 50 years?
@Yami-380451 Yep, I'm a 6ft blonde hair blue eyed Norwegian Cholo that lives in North Dakota. What up ESSE?
Mexican gangbangers..whaddaya want..
Where does it say they were Mexican?
Sam, the story took place in LA (nicest part of mexico)
Common people, I bet they were shooting zombies on LA streets...
And this comes as a surprise to who ?
Opps my bad,, I see only three is a record low, I get it. lol
evidently, well for that ONE particular spot anyway............
Some innocent person started it by exclaiming......."Wow, Man where did you get the Gorilla Suit....it looks so real!"
8acrelot...this has to be the dumbest comment ever posted...you are a result of what happens when you drop out of grade school..
I think, nay I hope, maybe 8acrelot was making a reference to the Dan Ackroyd / Eddie Murphy movie "Changing Places"...if not, I'll support comment #6.1.
Ahhh, California, the land of fruits and nuts. Fruit will shoot, the nut took it in the butt
LOL !
Got in a couple of groups you hate, how efficient.The "fruits" were the West Hollywood carnival . Why is it always the same idiots who say, oh the south, oh California, oh New York, oh....
You sound like a grade-A dbag. Maybe you should be shot instead next time.
People gathered to celebrate a traditional holiday, not to be attacked by someone who was carrying a gun. The shooters should be apprehended, arrested and convicted of attempted murder. This is not part of our lifestyle. There is absolutely no reason to carry a deadly weapon into a crowd with the intention of harming someone. Anyone who participates in such behavior is unstable and should not ever have possession of a firearm. It takes a better person to walk away from negative comments or actions than to act upon them. Again, another celebration ruined by criminals.
They were just exercising their 2nd amendment right.
@Sharon-316..... says. There is absolutely no reason to carry a deadly weapon into a crowd with the intention of harming someone...
How about this Sharon.... How about not letting the PERSON who's intention of harming someone NOT be allowed to mix with people... It's called prison. Chances are that this person committed some other form of violence before this incident. So ask yourself why didn't this person serve enough time?? or why let this person into a crowd??
Yeah, Man!
Let's get rid of the Mexicans and gang bangers!
Then the corporations can go back to stealing our money in a safer environment.
"That's what they call a million dollar wound but the government must keep that because I haven't seen any of it."
It's called a million dollar wound because it will get you out of combat, but isn't life-threatening. Sorry if you took a shot in the butt and were expecting to get a million.
Dumb to be in a crowd such as this at that time of night - - go home - - get some rest and go to WORK the next morning - - DUH!!
Wow , you sure know how to live it up.
What do you serve on Thanksgiving, chicken nuggets??
No - go to my job in the a.m. sober and not hung over!!!
Maybe California can ban Halloween since they're pretty quick at banning everything else.
I see that Cali hasn't banned stupid yet, it seems they only ban if they can find a corelation between a rat farting and cancer.
danged double post
Most of these comments are interesting to say the least. I am sorry to hear about the individuals who were shot and I hope they get better soon.
Yup, the democrats and republicans sure are ruining this country heh heh. Wasn't this way years ago lol
The media will soon report that people who were shot were at an Obama campaign event and the shooters were Romney supporters.
Just wandering the streets on Halloween in Los Angeles is asking for trouble.
It's sad that people have become so quick to use violence at a perceived slight or insult. This just another example of the thug mentality some people have. I hope the victims recover quickly.
old dog in al.
As the "story" has no indication as to what transpired previous to the shooting, you've made a big leap in your assumption.
Have you considered that it might in fact be justified? Were the "victims" actually assailants that accosted the wrong individual?
I'm holding judgement until the WHOLE story is told, but I doubt it ever will be.
9mm, I have never seen anyone so intent on finding justification of using a gun as you are. How paranoid can you possibly be to get your jollies by someone getting shot?
It makes no diference to me who started what. Just wishing the wounded well and hope they heal quickly. I carry an old 1911A1,and know what it can do. Getting shot hurts like heck.. If the shooter can prove just cause, OK... Otherwise the shooter needs to spend some quality time with Bubba in the state pen. I just think it is a sad state of affairs when people use a gun first. Rather than an absolute last resort.
That party looks so fun I gotta bust a cap in it.
Can't we all......just get along?
Stang-2682804 - "Can't we all......just get along?"
??!?!?! In America?!! Are ya daft, laddie? :-) It appears the only thing we the people of these States are United in, is hate, intolerance and distrust of each other. Read the posts above: the nicest thing that can be said of, ohhh, 99 44/100ths % of them is that they're sarcastic... it goes downhill from there.
Granted, Cali-for-nee-ah in general, and Hollywood/LA in general, seems to be a magnet for this type of stuff...
Ahhh, the northeast, where we have to swim to work, due to Hurricane Sandy...
Interesting how the parts of the country with the strictest gun control laws are also the most violent. Seems like criminals could care less about firearms laws just as they do other types of laws. Perhaps, just maybe our societal ills are related to sociopathic individuals and their complete disregard for the rest of us non sociopaths? Too radical a concept, I know...
WGer,
Don't disagree with you one bit, some day get yourself into a position (volunteer ride-along program or something) to ask a repeat offender who is on parole why he was just stupid enough to repeat. I have gotten the same answer multiple times "jail ain't no thing" and then they laugh. Simply told, risk VS. reward, there are a bunch of them that don't believe there is very dang much risk. Some live in such crappy conditions every day in the real world that even as bad as a upper lower class or above citizen thinks prison is, it is actually cleaner and safer than a lot of repeat offenders hoods. Also, since gangs have practically taken over the prisons because we are not permitted to exercise greater control, bangers know they have "family" on the inside. How is that for completely screwed up?
Worse yet, who is the threat of a prison sentence a real threat for? Truly only those who are more likely to not break the law in the first place, who have a home life they really care about to lose.