UPDATE PER NYPD: Midtown Manhattan descended into chaos after Knicks Game 5.
Ten officers injured. One punched in the face, another struck with a glass bottle.
A shooting at 43rd and Broadway wounded a 17-year-old. Crowds took over 43rd Street so completely that no ambulance could reach the scene, so NYPD drove the victim to the hospital. Officers recovered a firearm and took three people of interest into custody.
Four slashings and stabbings.
Crowds torched five school buses that were shuttling fans from Manhattan to MetLife Stadium for the World Cup.
Five NYPD vehicles wrecked. People swung bats at the cars, jumped on the roofs, and smashed front and back windshields. Crowds destroyed multiple personal vehicles too.
People set off fireworks inside packed crowds, climbed light poles, traffic signals, and scaffolding, and brawled in the street. Crowds blocked avenues for hours and refused to disperse.
63 arrested. Charges include assault on a police officer, criminal possession of a gun, criminal mischief, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and obstruction of governmental administration.
Former #49ers All-Pro DE Aldon Smith spent part of the final day of his life delivering pizzas to a local homeless charity (pictured below).
Hours later, he was found unresponsive in a vehicle and was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Smith was 36 years old. His cause of death is pending.
Story via @sfchronicle: https://t.co/J2B6JBu7eO