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LA Flocks to Lakers Parade

Cops vow to jail miscreants as coliseum fills

By Ambreen Ali,  Newser User

Posted Jun 17, 2009 3:21 PM CDT

(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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COMMENTS
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Forderon
Jun 18, 2009 12:51 PM CDT
Congratulations on making a good point and sounding like a dumbass, and borderline racist, at the same time
Rembrandt_Q_Einstein
Jun 18, 2009 7:36 AM CDT
Successful troll is successful.
Reader68389796
Jun 18, 2009 4:28 AM CDT
there we go again, bringing out the jealousy and the envy for these men. Most of them are college graduates who chose to do something they like rather than sit in a cubicle to be told when to pee, and Rembrandt, you chose to to call them retards, what do you do with your degree? You wish you were one of those retards, do yu? GO LAKERS!!

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