Hollywood hit by roaming band of robbers, police say
At least 14 people were taken into custody Tuesday night and many more remained at large after marauding bands of young people conducted a string of robberies, assaults and acts of vandalism along Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles police said late Tuesday.
The crimes did not appear to be related to the protests over the George Zimmerman acquittal in the slaying of Trayvon Martin.
Incident commander Dennis Kato said police were inundated with phone calls beginning about 9 p.m., reporting that packs of young people were roaming along Hollywood and attacking people. Public information officer Rosario Herrera said at least one of the attacks was near Hollywood and Highland. . . .
To summarize:
(1) The crimes "did not appear to be related to the protests over the George Zimmerman acquittal." It was all just an amazing coincidence of timing.
(2) These were simply "bands of young people," which ethnically must mean that they were your typical rioting robbing rampaging American mobs, likely made up of about equal parts Scandinavians, Russians, South Koreans and Ukrainians, with a scattering of immigrants from Monaco and Tibet.
(3) The only indication of race in this report were a couple of black youths who were apparently mistaken for the robbers because of how the robbers were described by witnesses (hmm). So the police let them go, but what the officers said to them was apparently cruelly "terse." (Being on the receiving end of police terseness is probably the Hollywood equivalent of having to work on a Georgia chain gang.)
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