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LA Flocks to Lakers Parade

Cops vow to jail miscreants as coliseum fills

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(Newser) – An estimated 150,000 clogged streets in downtown Los Angeles today as the NBA-champion Lakers took a victory lap around downtown, the Times reports. Some 80,000 more jammed the Coliseum for a rally at parade’s end. Police, hoping to avoid the looting and chaos that followed Sunday’s clinching victory over the Orlando Magic, turned out in force.

Double-decker buses ferry members of the Los Angeles Lakers past the Staples Center during a parade celebrating the team's 15th NBA basketball title in downtown Los Angeles.
Double-decker buses ferry members of the Los Angeles Lakers past the Staples Center during a parade celebrating the team's 15th NBA basketball title in downtown Los Angeles.   (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant holds the Larry O'Brien trophy as the Lakers' NBA basketball world championship parade gets underway in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant holds the Larry O'Brien trophy as the Lakers' NBA basketball world championship parade gets underway in Los Angeles.   (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
Los Angeles Lakers basketball player Derek Fisher, center, acknowledges fans as the Lakers' NBA basketball world championship parade gets underway in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Lakers basketball player Derek Fisher, center, acknowledges fans as the Lakers' NBA basketball world championship parade gets underway in Los Angeles.   (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
Los Angeles Lakers basketball fans cheer as the Lakers' NBA world championship parade gets underway in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Lakers basketball fans cheer as the Lakers' NBA world championship parade gets underway in Los Angeles.   (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant waves, while holding daughter Gianna Maria-Onore, as wife Vanessa and daughter Natalia Diamante look on during today's parade.
Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant waves, while holding daughter Gianna Maria-Onore, as wife Vanessa and daughter Natalia Diamante look on during today's parade.   (AP Photo)
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Rembrandt_Q_Einstein
Jun 17, 09 4:04 PM CDT
Hello and welcome to America! Where the only thing that will get our fat apathetic asses into the street isn't overpriced health care, an unjust war, corporate greed, or ineffectual leaders, but to cheer and applaud a bunch of overpaid pituitary retards that play a kids game. Congratulations America you are #1 in dumb-fuckery. Reply
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Forderon
Jun 17, 09 7:51 PM CDT
Congratulations on making a good point and sounding like a dumbass, and borderline racist, at the same time
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markhebert42
Jun 17, 09 8:12 PM CDT
Wow, check out the big brain on you. Very impressive. Now go outside and get some sunlight for the first time this week.
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Sauerkraut
Jun 18, 09 1:29 AM CDT
Hey, fuck you guy.
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smoorman1024
Jun 17, 09 9:12 PM CDT
Wow Rembrant is an idiot, as he sits behind his keyboard blogging thinking that makes him more of an activist than everyone else in this country. I was just going to say, Pittsburgh wins. 350,000 came out to the Pittsburgh Penguin"s parade. More than double the people at the Laker's parade. Reply
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