Brawls Erupt Outside L.A. Screening Of Footage Of Oct. 7 Hamas Attack On Israel; Mayor Karen Bass Responds To “Unacceptable Violence”
deadline.comMultiple fights broke out Wednesday night at a screening of footage of the horrific Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel at the Museum of Tolerance in West Los Angeles.
As we previously reported, the 43-minute film, Bearing Witness, put together by Israeli Defense Forces, contained gruesome imagery — most of it shot by the perpetrators — of murder, beheadings, rapes and other atrocities against Jewish adults and children.
Video on KABC showed several groups of people punching and kicking. The station reported some were pepper-sprayed when LAPD officers responded to the scene, which was already under heavy police presence.
According to media reports, a number of Hollywood producers and agents were among those in attendance. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass denounced the violence. “We cannot allow current worldwide tension to devolve into this unacceptable violence in our city,” she wrote on X (fka Twitter). “This is a time of immense pain and distress for thousands of Angelenos.
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