Two stabbings were reported Saturday near the Taste of Soul festival in South Los Angeles, authorities said. <\/p>\n
Police received a call about 2:45 p.m. about two stabbings in the 4200 block of Crenshaw Boulevard, according to LAPD spokesperson Norma Eisenman. Responding officers found two victims who were \u201cnot cooperative\u201d with officers and were transported to a hospital via the Los Angeles Fire Department, Eisenman added. <\/p>\n
The condition of the victims was not immediately available.<\/p>\n
It is unclear whether the incidents were related, and the investigation remains ongoing. <\/p>\n
Hours later, authorities issued a tactical alert about 5:30 p.m. following a report of \u201cmore than 100 young adults being unruly\u201d near Crenshaw and Martin Luther King boulevards, Eisenman said. The alert remained in effect for several hours and was lifted about 9:30 p.m. <\/p>\n
Organizers behind Taste of Soul \u2014 an annual free street festival that celebrates African American food, music and culture \u2014 said the incidents occurred outside of the festival grounds, according to ABC 7.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolice activity happened on the outskirts of the event,\u201d organizers told ABC 7. The incidents \u201cdid not impact operations\u201d and the event \u201cended as planned.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two stabbings were reported Saturday near the Taste of Soul festival in South Los Angeles, authorities said. Police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6577,71190,194004,101157,2882,4456,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,330,224,236,194003,1878,194006,134398,194005],"class_list":["post-500636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-authority","tag-crenshaw-boulevard","tag-crenshaw-festival","tag-eisenman","tag-hour","tag-incident","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-music","tag-p-m","tag-police","tag-soul-festival","tag-stabbing","tag-tactical-alert","tag-taste","tag-unruly-crowd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}