28-05-2025
LAPD Works to ID Raucous Partygoers in DTLA Renegade Punk Show Who Injured Cops
Revelers at an illegal rooftop bash in DTLA's Fashion District over the weekend left police officers injured and several businesses, city-owned Metro trains, and even an LAPD vehicle vandalized by taggers, police officials said. Despite the obvious violence posted on social media, no arrests were made during the melee, which garnered the attention of Mayor Karen Bass during a Memorial Day event. "What happened last night was egregious, completely unacceptable."The raucous crowd began to engage in violence early Sunday morning after officers broke up a rooftop party billed online as a "renegade hardcore punk show," being held at Trinity Street and East Washington Boulevard. More than 300 people were found trespassing on the roof of what appeared to be an abandoned building, where illegal fireworks were being set off and drug and alcohol use were the crowd dispersed from the venue, they then went on to create different bits of chaos in the surrounding area, including fire breathing, spray painting, and hurling fireworks and beer cans towards police who had arrived in the area in riot gear. Eventually, police declared the incident an unlawful assembly, and witnesses say they fired multiple rubber bullets to garner the crowd's attention and restore order.
"It was just pandemonium. Everybody, just, you know, went berserk," Bass told ABC Metro said around 50 people blocked two trains on Washington Boulevard, spray painting both the exteriors and interiors. While no injuries were reported, the vandalism suspended service for about 20 minutes.A police squad car was among the property vandalized, with individuals posing for photos in front of it, kicking it, and launching fireworks at it. Tensions escalated as the crowd turned on officers, one of whom required medical attention after being hit in the face with a addressed the incident in a briefing the following day alongside Police Chief Jim McDonnell, seeking answers as to why no arrests had been made. Authorities are currently reviewing security footage to identify those involved and pursue charges. Bass has pledged to continue the investigation and ensure those responsible are held accountable."We cannot do this in our city, and it has to be stopped. We have to be very aggressive about it, because we will never send the signal that maybe this is acceptable behavior," Bass said.
