{"id":12454,"date":"2020-10-15T17:36:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T15:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=12454"},"modified":"2020-10-15T17:36:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T15:36:50","slug":"one-mans-eye-exploded-another-lost-eight-teeth-from-lapd-projectiles-fired-at-lakers-revelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=12454","title":{"rendered":"One man\u2019s eye \u2018exploded,\u2019 another lost eight teeth from LAPD projectiles fired at Lakers revelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-10-15\/lapd-projectiles-gruesome-injuries-lakers-celebration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When the hard-foam police projectile struck 22-year-old William Gonzalez in the right eye as he celebrated\u00a0<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-10-11\/lakers-vs-heat-game-6\" data-autoplayable-video=\"true\">the Lakers\u2019 NBA title<\/a>\u00a0in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday night, it shattered his eye socket, ripped apart his tear duct and \u201cexploded\u201d the eyeball itself, doctors said.<\/p>\n<p>The Kobe Bryant jersey that his brother Michael used to stanch the bleeding was immediately soaked as Michael dragged Gonzalez through the streets, trying to find a way out of the chaos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Others also were badly injured in the area around Staples Center, where\u00a0<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-10-12\/76-arrested-in-downtown-la-following-lakers-win\">the LAPD declared an unlawful gathering<\/a>\u00a0as storefronts were being damaged and officers targeted with thrown bottles and other items. One man lost eight teeth when a projectile struck him in the mouth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kobe Bryant, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/profile\/kobe-bryant\/#6d9ca25cf75e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">worth half a billion US dollars at the time of his death<\/a>, attended <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Lower Merion High School<\/span>, the suburban Philadelphia high school I would have gone to had I not attended <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Alternative West<\/span>, where there were more real drugs, real freedom, and empty political posturing by children of wealth than at <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Lower Merion<\/span> (David Shulkin, Trump Secretary of Veterans Affairs was in the class ahead of me).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Times: When the hard-foam police projectile struck 22-year-old William Gonzalez in the right eye as he celebrated\u00a0the Lakers\u2019 NBA title\u00a0in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday night, it shattered his eye socket, ripped apart his tear duct and \u201cexploded\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=12454\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}