Overview
- Officers responded just before 2 p.m. to a stabbing call at Martin Luther King Jr. and Crenshaw boulevards near the parade terminus.
- LAPD deployed dozens of units, formed a skirmish line, and issued dispersal orders as fights were reported on nearby streets.
- AIR7 video showed officers moving on a large crowd outside an El Pollo Loco after a disturbance was reported at that location.
- Reports described an assault on a police officer in the vicinity, with details and any connection to the stabbing unconfirmed.
- The stabbing victim was taken to a hospital, and Mayor Karen Bass said community violence interventionists are working with LAPD to de‑escalate.