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Fight breaks out in downtown Las Vegas after MLK parade

Updated January 15, 2018 - 6:38 pm

More than two dozen people were arrested after multiple fights broke out in downtown Las Vegas after the city’s 36th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parade, police said.

Police arrested 23 minors and six adults in the fights, Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Grant Rogers said.

Just after 4 p.m., about 100 people were involved in one fight at the intersection of Casino Center Boulevard and Ogden Avenue, Rogers said. No one was seriously injured in the fights, he said.

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