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No Filipinos were reported to have been arrested or victimized in looting or violence that broke out in central Los Angeles after the Los Angeles Dodgers won the baseball World Series on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila).
The Associated Press reported that rowdy crowds took to the streets of Los Angeles after the Dodgers won the World Series, setting a city bus on fire, breaking into stores, and lighting off fireworks in the Echo Park area.
Echo Park is adjacent to the historic Filipinotown, which used to host a large community of Filipinos from the 1920s to the 1940s.
Most ethnic Filipinos, however, have spread all over Los Angeles County, becoming the largest population of Filipinos in any metropolitan area outside of the Philippines.
According to the US Census Bureau, there were approximately 499,851 people of Filipino ancestry living in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area in 2019.
Despite some unrest, “the overwhelming majority of celebrations last night were joyful and peaceful,” Mayor Karen Bass said at a Thursday news conference discussing the logistics of Friday’s planned victory parade.
