Nine arrests during Lakers' toned-down victory parade
Damage to property around Staples Center
Police arrested nine more people during a victory parade on Monday, bringing the total number of Los Angeles basketball fans arrested in the wake of the Lakers championship win to over 50.
Los Angeles police chief Charlie Beck warned rowdy revellers early on Monday that he would not stand for a repeat of Thursday when LA Lakers fans threw rocks and bottles at police, harassed motorists, torched and jumped on vehicles and burned Boston Celtics' jerseys.
Police did not give an estimate of damage to businesses and property around Staples Center Arena but did say 42 people were arrested immediately following the Lakers' 83-79 win over the Boston Celtics in game seven of the NBA championship series.
"If you're coming here to vandalise, if you're coming here to disrupt, well, then you're going to stay for long because we are going to put you in jail," Beck warned the trouble-makers.
At the height of the violence on Thursday, Lakers fans torched a taxi after its driver fled and hundreds of other fans surrounded a bus in the downtown core before police arrived to break up the mob.
At least eight people, one of them beaten unconscious, were taken to hospital.
On Monday, police charged 10 people in connection with Thursday's violence, including one man for lighting a Boston Celtics jersey on fire and throwing it to the ground.