Inglewood residents have complained about traffic disruptions caused by World Cup games at Los Angeles Stadium. A woman, Samhyra Sosa, posted a video on social media claiming she was unable to return to her home in Inglewood due to a World Cup game that took place in the area on Monday night.

Response from Inglewood and Metro

In response to the complaints, Inglewood Mayor James Butts, Jr. stated that the traffic management was not a deployment by the Inglewood Police Department and was not related to FIFA. According to Butts, this was done by Metro, through a contract with the city of Inglewood, to assemble the buses. Metro said that due to heavy traffic congestion on Monday in the area during the World Cup, they requested assistance from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to facilitate the movement of buses in and out of the area.

The City of Inglewood issued an apology, saying that preventing access to homes has never been and will never be part of Inglewood’s traffic management plan for residents. The city of Inglewood did not request total street closures and at no time should residents have been left without access to their homes.

Original reporting: NBC4 Los Angeles — read the source article.