Six fans were arrested and 14 ejected from Banc of California Stadium during Thursday’s MLS soccer game between the Galaxy and the Los Angeles Football Club.
LAFC said it had doubled security at its stadium for the game, the second in the expansion team’s intracity rivalry with the Galaxy but first in its new Exposition Park home. Still, clashes between fans of the two teams began outside the venue about two hours before kickoff, with video posted to social media showing a group of men dressed in black and red LAFC jerseys physically attacking two people in white Galaxy jerseys.