{"id":529399,"date":"2026-01-20T08:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T08:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/529399\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T08:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T08:24:21","slug":"man-stabbed-officer-assaulted-after-brawl-erupts-at-las-mlk-day-parade-cops-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/529399\/","title":{"rendered":"Man stabbed, officer assaulted after brawl erupts at LA&#8217;s MLK Day Parade: cops, report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Los Angeles parade honoring Martin Luther King Jr. quickly spiraled into chaos Monday when a fight broke out, leading to an alleged stabbing, while a cop was assaulted near the melee, according to police and reports.<\/p>\n<p>Units from the Los Angeles Police Department were called to the intersection of Stocker Street and Crenshaw Boulevard following reports that a 40-year-old man was stabbed after a fight involving several people just before 2 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>As a crowd grew around the scene, multiple fights reportedly broke out in adjacent streets, according to police.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.71014493;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38228364\" width=\"708\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/la-police-seen-mlk-parade-119255688.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial view of a large crowd of people gathered in the street during the MLK Parade in Leimert Park.\" class=\"wp-image-38228364\"  \/>A celebration honoring Martin Luther King Jr. quickly turned into chaos when a stabbing near the terminus of the annual parade drew a heavy police response and a restless crowd. KTLA<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.87889908;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38228365\" width=\"1024\" height=\"545\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/la-police-seen-mlk-parade-119255152.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial view of LA Police at the MLK parade in Leimert Park.\" class=\"wp-image-38228365\"  \/>LA Police seen at the MLK Parade in Leimert Park. KTLA<\/p>\n<p>In response, officers formed a skirmish line and issued dispersal orders.<\/p>\n<p>A Los Angeles Police Department cop was allegedly assaulted near the MLK Day Parade route in Leimert Park, <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/reports-assault-police-officer-site-mlk-parade-prompts-large-crowd-presence-leimert-park\/18435408\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to ABC 7<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The officer\u2019s condition and whether it was related to the stabbing are not yet known. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe California Post is coming soon. 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Be the first to know about launch and home delivery.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately after the parade, LAPD responded to a group of young people creating a disturbance and there are reports of a stabbing towards the end of the parade route that remains under investigation,\u201d Mayor Karen Bass said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was reportedly taken to a nearby hospital, although details about his condition are unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Los Angeles parade honoring Martin Luther King Jr. quickly spiraled into chaos Monday when a fight broke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":529400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,4219,2961,224,5337,21075,8626,1154],"class_list":{"0":"post-529399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-martin-luther-king-jr","15":"tag-stabbings","16":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115926471020693266","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}