Rioting in California

[Thebadguy]

A violent mob raged through Huntington Beach on Sunday night after a surfing competition in Huntington Beach, clashing with police, toppling portable toilets, brawling in the streets and apparently vandalizing and looting at least one business, according to police and witnesses.

The mob erupted among a crowd of thousands gathered for the Vans U.S. Open of Surfing, which includes surfing, skateboarding and BMX biking events, possibly after a fistfight in downtown Huntington Beach (map).

Police made eight arrests on suspicion of failure to disperse, according to a Huntington Beach Police Department statement.

People in the mob strapped bandanas across their faces and threw rocks and bottles at police officers. Police donned riot gear and fired back with pepper balls.

Aerial footage showed about 18 overturned portable toilets on the streets of downtown Huntington Beach. It was unclear exactly when the riots began, but witnesses began mentioning the riots in social media posts earlier than 8 p.m.

A video posted to Facebook showed a mob throwing a stop sign through a store window and making off with merchandise, including a bicycle.

Burt Etheredge of "easyrider," the vandalized store, described watching the mob make a smash and grab burglary from the store's front window.

"We were all huddled inside the building and we had the lights off because all the people were up here mobbing around, and I was inside and I saw them tearing down the stop sign," he said. "As soon as that stop sign came down, I knew that stop sign was coming through the window. And sure enough, two seconds later, it did."

One of the people made off with a bicycle before others in the crowd stepped in and defended the store, Etheredge said.

By about 9 p.m., the commotion appeared to have ended and the streets were mostly cleared, except for a heavy police presence.

Police asked that anyone with information, photos or video of crimes related to the mob call the Huntington Beach Police Department Hotline at 714-375-5066.

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/l...ition-in-Huntington-Beach-Ends-217333491.html

 

[Dank Hill]

Lies, we all know blacks are the only ones who riot and destroy their own communities like some savages.





























white people...I tell ya

True comment from the article

909 is an area code. The Cholos come from there and wreck havoc on the community It is a beach so idiots come from everywhere. If they just shot the one in the lead the rest would go home.

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

White people will riot over a surfing competition, but black people won't riot over Trayvon Martin's death?



Something is wrong here.

 

[Nymeria]

Lol. They wanted a minority riot after the verdict but got a bunch of angry, white surfer dudes. Go figure.

 

[Lana Kane]

 

[ugksam]

just some kids having fun

 

[observe]

Hot babes in bikinis..,Surfing ....and a riot..sounds like fun,,I wish I was down there..

 

[Ronnie Lott]

The Media won't make much of this at all. Watch! When white folks do shyt, its somehow minimized

 

[dtownreppin214]

what's up with white people's obsession with feces?

 

[King Poetic]

soon when i saw huntington beach i knew it was whites.. i think kobe bryant and george lopez are the only blacks or latinos around that area

 

[MostReal]

surfing caused this

 

[AntiHero]

Isn't huntington beach a rich community ?

Just goes to show you that violence has nothing to do with race or class.

 

[AntiHero]

 

[Tommy Knocks]

a hogout broke loose. savage animals they should be locked in cages and sent back into caves.

 

[MostReal]

that boy was putting them hands on em something serious