At least 16 hurt in explosion during LAPD bomb squad seizure of illegal fireworks
Authorities were in the process of seizing more than 5,000 pounds of illegal fireworks at the time of the explosion.
Hasnain says:
Big yikes here. Looks like the police confiscated 5000lbs of fireworks and for some reason tried to safely detonate them in the same neighborhood (tv cameras recorded them on the scene saying “fire in the hole!”) and then it blew up, injuring people.
The passive voice from LATimes on Twitter is something else - as is the early reporting from Fox where they first gleefully talk about the seizure of illegal fireworks and then after it blew up called them “homemade explosives”.
“Officers found several thousand pounds of fireworks and other improvised explosive devices, Im said. The fireworks were to be put in storage, and officials had planned to explode the improvised devices at the scene because they were too unstable to move.”
Posted on 2021-07-01T05:51:45+0000