Caught On Video: Brawl On Venice Beach Boardwalk

VENICE (CBSLA) – Cellphone video shows an all-out brawl betwixt what appears to beryllium astatine slightest 3 stateless men Wednesday connected the Venice Beach Boardwalk.

In the video, posted to Twitter, a antheral with a ample rod tin beryllium seen charging different antheral who is exchanging punches with a 3rd man.

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At 1 point, a information defender is seen attempting to interruption up the fight, but to nary avail.

“It’s not an uncommon sight,” Adam Merchant, adjunct manager of the Fig Tree Restaurant, said.

Merchant said that fights similar this hap each excessively often and that the homelessness situation has taken a large toll connected section businesses.

“With the edifice being unfastened until 9 oregon 10 o’clock, radical are frightened to travel to the boardwalk past a definite time,” Merchant said.

The video does amusement Los Angeles Police Department officers nearby. However, it doesn’t look that men progressive successful the unit were detained and calls to LAPD regarding the Wednesday incidental were not instantly returned.

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This boardwalk brawl comes connected the arsenic efforts are underway to wide retired the countless tents that person taken implicit 1 of Southern California’s astir fashionable tourer attractions.

There are noticeably less stateless encampments connected stretches of the boardwalk, which comes arsenic a alleviation immoderate locals and concern owners.

“Just ecstatic that each of this is gone, each of the crud is gone,” Brad Wells, a beachgoer, said.

At the Fig Tree, Merchant said since the cleanup began, determination has been an summation successful postulation for the evening crowds due to the fact that it’s a small spot safer.

A spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said their teams person been retired successful Venice, alongside LAPD and sanitation crews, to cleanable up the country and marque it safer for everyone.

“There conscionable has to beryllium much enforcement, I guess. You  cognize what I mean, conscionable gotta beryllium strict astir it truthful the boardwalk tin beryllium harmless again,” Culver City nonmigratory Daniel Blum said.

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Other locals said they privation to spot semipermanent solutions to get the stateless into lodging and disconnected the thoroughfare permanently.