Train Derails in Garbage-Strewn Area Trashed by Looters in Los Angeles

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Jan. 16, 2022

Video out of Lincoln Heights on Saturday captured a Union Pacific train getting derailed in the section trashed by looters who stole thousands of packages and left the garbage all over the tracks.

Nick Rose, a senior producer at Yahoo Finance, caught video of the derailment.

freight train derailed in downtown LA @daniromerotv pic.twitter.com/0JQAo8IWtQ
— Nick Rose (@nckros) January 15, 2022

pic.twitter.com/PEfifcwL2x
— Nick Rose (@nckros) January 15, 2022

Photojournalist Mike Ade also caught video from another angle.

In Lincoln heights at the site of many recent train robberies a train appears to have derailed… pic.twitter.com/23SheGikrM
— Mike Ade (@bellikemike) January 15, 2022

Confirmed a Union Pacific train has a derailed. The track has been obliterated in some locations pic.twitter.com/hCxZjNue1K
— Mike Ade (@bellikemike) January 16, 2022

Seventeen cars derailed, according to KABC.

@LATACO pic.twitter.com/XkwgcXu9f6
— Mike Ade (@bellikemike) January 16, 2022

Some still shots from #LincolnHeights pic.twitter.com/nsbUwMHUOP
— Mike Ade (@bellikemike) January 16, 2022

Does anyone recognize these families? pic.twitter.com/K1ktTqbb6s
— Mike Ade (@bellikemike) January 16, 2022

Does anybody recognize this country?

[Header image by DowntownGal via Wikicommons. CC BY-SA 3.0.]

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