Hundreds of officers, seized drugs and weapons: Matt Finn on the Skid Row raid
Fox News Clips' short report from downtown Los Angeles drew a comment section talking about federal agents, decades of the same street and the dogs in the footage.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 147,052 views a day, 20 times a normal first day on this channel (7,471).
Federal authorities seize DRUGS, WEAPONS in Skid Row RAID
A Short on Fox News Clips usually ends its first day with a few thousand views. Matt Finn's report from Los Angeles' Skid Row had passed 73,000 in its first eight hours.
The clip follows a large law enforcement operation through the neighborhood. The description says hundreds of officers took part, going after alleged drug dealers. The title puts federal authorities at the front and reports that drugs and weapons were seized. Skid Row covers roughly fifty blocks on the eastern edge of downtown and has for decades been home to one of the largest concentrations of unhoused people in the United States. Perhaps that is why a short piece of street footage from there reaches viewers far from California.
The comment section is full of them. Many viewers focus on the federal role and turn the conversation toward city and state leaders. Others say nothing about Skid Row is new, comparing it with Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia or saying their own cities look more like it every year. A separate thread runs through it about the dogs seen in the footage, with several viewers asking what happens to the animals.
The raid was not the only upload pulling well ahead of its usual pace that day. A Faulkner Focus panel of Republican, Democratic and Independent voters laid out what worries them before the midterms. An Outnumbered segment had Kat Timpf, Adam Carolla, Harris Faulkner, Kayleigh McEnany and Kennedy reacting to Amazon's new 'About You' feature, which the panel finds unsettling. Both were longer videos, and both opened far stronger than the channel's longer clips usually do.
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- Channel
- Fox News Clips
- Subscribers
- 853,000 ▲ 3,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 7,211,824
- Channel views, pace per day
- 972,544 (on a normal day: 1,009,784)
- Video published
- October 8, 2026
- Video views so far
- 73,411 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 147,052
The numbers
The figures below show a Short that opened many times faster than this channel's Shorts usually do, on a day when two longer clips also ran well ahead.
