A crowd of teens riding bikes flocked to Los Angeles grocery stores. They looted the shelves, sprayed pepper, terrified shoppers, and attacked the couple in the parking lot.
During the April 19th attack, more than a dozen bike hooligans exploded past the store’s security, grabbing the item and leaving behind a cloud of maces in the footage Retrieved by the KTLA show.
When they left the store, they turned their anger at the two men hiding in their cars, throwing rocks and bottles, and homophobic insults at the terrifying couple who were trapped.
“‘Gay?” Ryan Benson, one of the victims, told KTLA.
“There was so much pepper spray in the air that everyone in the store was coughing, sneezing, hiding their faces under their shirts,” Benson added.
Benson said his car caused thousands of dollars of damage and threatened him after the teenagers involved in the attack posted on social media about the tragic ordeal.
The gang may be behind other violent incidents in the city this year. This includes several 7-Jonenben stores attacks in February and a field beat hit by a man near Beverly Hills, Los Angeles police told KTLA.
In the February incident, a group of teenagers involved in a “street takeover” kicked a man leaving his car to confront them. Virus cell phone video It was shown.
“Our windows are broken, our windshields are broken, both doors have dents and dents with paint damage,” Benson told KTLA.
“I understand that they are kids, but these are really scary and I can’t tell them it’s not happening.”
The City of Angels is plagued by such riots.
Street acquisitions have doubled and remained stable during the pandemic, with car and bike hooligan packs blocking traffic, according to the LA Times.
One street takeover last November ended with two people in the hospital when he got caught in a car carrying a donut, NBC 4 reported.
Mayhem urged a crackdown on LAPD, and this month county officials weighed a double of $500 to $1,000 on street takeovers, a board of supervisory agenda stated.
