OKC police say few arrests despite large crowds downtown at OKC Thunder Champions Parade

Despite the immense crowd turnout for the OKC Thunder Champions Parade, police reported a comparatively low number of arrests during the celebration.

Due to the hundreds of thousands of people who were expected to swarm downtown Oklahoma City, the local police department called in teams from law enforcement agencies across the state to assist with security and crowd control. But OKC police Sgt. Dillon Quirk said it was “a fairly quiet, went-how-it-was-supposed-to day,” all things considered.

Police arrested seven people, Quirk said, two of the arrests being related to firearms, but most being related to public intoxication…

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