Dramatic photos, videos of Huntington Beach rioting

[bemildred]

Huntington Beach is cleaning up Monday morning after a fight broke out following the U.S. Open of Surfing, leading to a two-hour confrontation between police and unruly beachgoers.

Eight people were arrested and several officers were injured Sunday night. Police in riot gear used tear gas and nonlethal rounds to disperse the crowd, which tipped over portable toilets and smashed storefront windows.

Huntington Beach Police Lt. John Domingo said city signs and vehicles were also damaged.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-huntington-beach-riot-social-media-20130729,0,4602387.story

[Enrique]

1. i see a guy tipping over a porta potty

and some people that see it saying "wooo!!!" I didn't find it especially dramatic.

[NightWatcher]

3. You'd think it was dramatic and traumatic had you been in said porta potty.

[jberryhill]

21. They broke into a bike shop with a stop sign

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-huntington-beach-bike-shop-riots-20130729,0,5585474.story

The employees stayed in the shop, keeping the doors locked and the lights off, but then armed themselves with wrenches and bike seat posts when they saw people outside pull down a stop sign, Hartzog said.

He said rioters used the sign to smash through the window, stole one bike and tried to tried to take a second. Employees managed to hang onto the second bike in a tug-of-war with a looter.

The workers also recovered the stop sign.

Hartzog said at least six local residents aided in their efforts, lining up in front of the store and linking arms. At one point they chanted, "This is our shop," Hartzog said.

[riverwalker]

2. rioting white surfer dudes

I was camping in Glacier Park when the Zimmerman verdict came down, and missed the reactions, but have since tried to catch up. I know the media tried to make a big deal out of the demonstrations, the coming "race war", yadda yadda yadda.
Interesting to see the media treatment of middle class surfers rioting and looting in comparison.

[bemildred]

4. Yes. But minimal coverage for misbehaving yuppie brats. nt

[Enrique]

5. i blame white culture

next time Obama talks to white people, he should lecture them about this kind of thing.

[Blue_Tires]

16. +1000

Of course the media was not-so-secretly hoping and praying for a riot, since all that destruction and violence would bring down another fat ratings number...

[Starry Messenger]

25. Seriously.

[IDemo]

6. I can see the place hasn't changed much in 35 years

[Egalitarian Thug]

13. Just what I was thinking.

Suburban tribes and heavy-handed enforcers. At least no one was killed this time.

[KurtNYC]

18. From 1986 is 27 years -- maybe it is genetic

These are the offspring of the 1986 rioters (?)

http://articles.latimes.com/1986-09-01/local/me-12932_1_riot

[HappyMe]

7. What a bunch of dumbasses.

[Auggie]

20. +1

[morningfog]

8. All because of a ketchup bottle.

[olddots]

9. Huntington Beach is like all places where bored kids look for the action

Eventually you realize there is no " Action"

[BuddhaGirl]

10. my hometown

There have always been idiots there.

[petronius]

11. It seems like that event has simmered on more than one occasion, as far

back as the 1986 riot (when it was the O.P. Pro). I don't know if it's specific to H.B., or if other surf contests have dealt with similar problems, but it's disappointing to see...

http://www.usopenofsurfing.com/video/day-9-highlights <--Highlights of what it was really about!

[Egalitarian Thug]

14. The HB Pigs always over-reach/over-react and the white suburban tribalists

always push them.

[librechik]

12. I would have thought that was a contradiction in terms

cuz...Huntington Beach.

[Arctic Dave]

15. I guess I can bust out my old t-shirt

from the 86 riots.

"Never question authority" with a picture of the police in full riot gear.

[Le Taz Hot]

17. Buncha little punk asses.

I used to hang out at Huntington Beach. There was a nightclub called The Golden Bear used to be there. I saw Bonnie Raitt there for the first time in, I think, '72.

[denbot]

19. Saw the Tubes at the Golden Bear in 75' or 76'

H.B.P.D. Has always been over reactive, and tend to incite more incidents then they prevent.
I was arrested there a a surf contest at the head of the old pier in 76' or77'.

I was standing there talking to a friend and I heard someone say pig. I turned around and there was two H.B.P.D. officers walking by. I knew I was in trouble because I was the only non-caucasian in the area. They grabbed me, totally ignoring my blonde and blue eyed buddy, and arrested me for disturbing the peace, releasing me about 3am with the charges dropped. I stopped hanging out there, too much bullshit.

[IDemo]

27. I (mis)spent the summer of '75 there

Hanging out with my cousin in Sunset Beach and partying in HB. There appeared to me to be police choppers and a number of squad cars which had been purchased for the sole purpose of dispersing large noisy crowds.

[denbot]

28. There is a fair chance we brushed by each other.

Small world.

[datasuspect]

22. locals only, brah

that's totally aggro, duuuuude.

[frylock]

23. my beach!

[bluedigger]

24. "It's Saturday" by King Missile

I want to be different, like everybody else I want to be like
I want to be just like all the different people
I have no further interest in being the same,
because I have seen difference all around,

and now I know that that's what I want
I don't want to blend in and be indistinguishable,
I want to be a part of the different crowd,
and assert my individuality along with the others
who are different like me
I don't want to be identical to anyone or anything
I don't even want to be identical to myself
I want to look in the mirror and wonder,
"who is that person? I've never seen that person before;
I've never seen anyone like that before."
I want to call into question every idea that
identity can be attached
I want a floating, shifting, ever changing persona:
Invisibility and obscurity,
detachment from the ego and all of it's pursuits.
Unity is useless
Comformity is competitive and divisive and leads only to
stagnation and death.
If what I'm saying doesn't make any sense,
that's because sense can not be made
It's something that must be sensed
And I, for one, am incensed by all this complacency
Why oppose war only when there's a war?
Why defend the clinics only when they're attacked?
Why are we always reactive?
Let's activate something
Let's fuck shit up
Whatever happened to revolution for the hell of it?
Whatever happened to protesting nothing in particular, just
protesting cause it's Saturday and there's nothing else to do?

[lumberjack_jeff]

26. "Riot" apparently means something entirely different than it did when I was young. n/t

[Safetykitten]

29. Terror in HB! Starbucks closed!