Of the 570 citations Los Angeles police wrote at a single street takeover over Labor Day weekend, not one was for driving.
Every citation fell into one of two piles, according to figures LAPD released after the bust: 442 for spectating at a speed contest, and 128 for juveniles out past curfew. The people accused of doing the driving were handled differently. They were arrested.
That split is the story. For years, the default assumption at a takeover has been that the people doing donuts carry the legal risk and the people filming them are background. In Harbor Gateway, the background got the paperwork: 442 street takeover spectators were cited in a single night.
What happened at Figueroa and Alondra
The crowd gathered at South Figueroa Street and West Alondra Boulevard in the early hours of Saturday, Sept. 5. LAPD put attendance at more than 700 people…