Riot breaks out on Hollywood Boulevard

[Renew Deal]

Source: MSNBC

An angry crowd threw rocks and set fires on Hollywood Boulevard and police in riot gear fired bean bags late Wednesday after people were turned away from an invitation-only party and screening of a movie about a popular rave festival.

The famous street was closed by police until they managed to stop the disturbance.

The screening of "Electric Daisy Carnival Experience" at Grauman's Chinese Theater was scheduled to coincide with a "block party" promoted by DJ Kaskade, a favorite among fans of electronic dance music or EDM, who encouraged his fans to join the festivities in a Tweet sent earlier in the day.

The Tweet read: Today@6pm in Hollywood @Mann's Chinese Theatre. ME+BIG SPEAKERS+MUSIC=BLOCK PARTY!!! RT!

Patrol cars vandalized
But when a crowd estimated at more than a thousand converged, the gathering near Hollywood and Highland turned violent, with some members of the crowd throwing rocks and bottles and vandalizing patrol cars, according to a spokesman with the Los Angeles Police Department.
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Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43922157/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts

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Wild in the streets!

Feeling the "beats." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad_lLXouwLw

KTLA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ7fPPDOTbk

Fight for your right to party! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oM3VMhbxN8

From the front lines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUS0Ds0p7fQ

[slackmaster]

1. Everybody sing along: "School's out for summer..."

[Poll_Blind]

6. Followed by "Department of Youth!"

Department of Youth (With intro by Vincent Price, LOL!)

"We got the power! And who gave it to you?"

"Donnie Osmond!"

"WHAT?!?!"

PB

[musette_sf]

2. 14 Or Fight!

[wtmusic]

5. If Ed Begley made it past thirty I'm probably good too. nt

[Bok_Tukalo]

3. And they say Americans are docile in response to economic and political upheaval

<OPE>

[Evasporque]

4. let the people dance...

Exclusive is crap...

http://snd.sc/rlCdTM

Had the fool cops just opened the barricades people would of danced and all would of been fine...

Police state..

[Codeine]

21. "would HAVE"

Jesus fuck I hate it when people say "would of".

[jberryhill]

24. If I'd known that I would of said it sooner then now.

I'll say it alot now.

[Codeine]

26. *shakes tiny fist ineffectually* nt

[jberryhill]

23. Let the organizer get a permit and close the street first

Is it that hard?

This is about some guy who is out to make money and promote himself.

It's perfectly fine to have block parties, but you don't set up a private event and then tell everyone to show up.

[rbixby]

37. But then you'd just be a tool of the man!

And probably also have to get some kind of liability insurance and all that stuff that keeps you from making tons of money.

[kestrel91316]

7. A movie about a rave??? And it warrants rioting???

Effing cretins. Bread and circuses.

Humans deserve to go extinct.

[Renew Deal]

8. No, it was an impromptu rave in front of the movie theater

Check the last video.

[coalition_unwilling]

30. LOL. I read somewhere that many evolutionary biologists think that

the normal run for a species is about 100,000 years before extinction. I think homo sapiens is right at that cusp :)

[Mudoria]

9. People are stupid.

[Liberalynn]

10. This is what they get upset about?

:shrug: Never mind the country is going to hell in a hand basket. Let's pull assinine stunts over a stupid party and movie.

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. My first thought too!

[alp227]

12. plus infinity, on tuesday i went to a small rally in front of my House rep office

yet people wanna be mad over some stupid rave? WAKE UP AMERICA, TURN THE DAMN TV OFF AND SCREAM AT WASHINGTON!

[jwirr]

13. Too bad they couldn't find a better cause.

[NBachers]

14. Rrrrrrriot on Sunset Strip!

[dissidentboomer]

15. If this wasn't so sad, I'd laugh. Crisis? What crisis?

I once heard a wise man say that Americans never react to a problem until it jumps up and bites them personally on the ass. Time has convinced me of the accuracy of his statement.

[Mojorabbit]

16. Perhaps we need to call our rallys block parties and hire a dj. nt

[Taverner]

17. This "riot" says a lot a out America, our consumer culture, and the deification of celebrity

Americans will go to great lengths to prove they are not victims. They'll let DC fuck them over badly, they'll refuse to organize into unions and they'll elect the most evil bastards to the highest offices. All to prove they aren't victims.

But you can swear up and down all day that you aren't a victim, but if you are being victimized, you are in fact a victim. And victim's rage does not pass you over.

The rage wells up and comes out at all the wrong times: "celebrations" of sports victories, anger from sports losses, and now this.

America is the capital of misdirected aggression.

[jberryhill]

19. It seems like someone decided to have a mass event without telling anyone first

Yes, you can have an outdoor concert in the street if you coordinate to get the street closed and traffic controlled, etc.

This doesn't look like that.

It seems that someone decided it was okay to say, "Hey, let's have a party in the street" without telling anyone first.

So, instead of having access and safety under control, the police show up and there's a "riot" going on.

[Taverner]

20. Oh I'm not arguing right or wrong

I'm just saying this might be a symptom of something different

[jberryhill]

18. Key word in KTLA coverage: "Impromptu Event"

Do I correctly understand that this was tweeted as a "block party" without any advance organization etc.?

It doesn't matter who or what the music... if anyone just decides they are going to have a "block party" without appropriate planning, there is going to be a problem.

[meow mix]

22. this is what it takes..

:rofl:

[Skidmore]

25. Finally we see Americans taking to the streets. nt

[kentauros]

27. I take it that someone forgot to pass out the X

Nothing would have happened then :D

[cyberpj]

28. Get out of my head! LOL. That JUST what I thought. nt

[kentauros]

29. I/You must have been projecting,

because it was taking me a while to remember that ecstasy is also called X :P

[cyberpj]

31. Oh No! - And I just noticed our signature lines -- both Izzard fans. Too funny.

He grew up in Europe, you know, where the history comes from.

[kentauros]

32. Do you have a flag?

I noticed that you have a quote from Bill Hicks on your profile, too. He's from my hometown, Houston, you know :D

[cyberpj]

34. Yep. That's it right there as my avatar.

Hicks. hometown. Houston. Herbs. Because it has a fucking H!

Yep. I love my intelligent comedians. I'm sort of glad Bill isn't around today --I think his head would have exploded during Bush Jr's reign.

Cool. Be seein' you around the DU I guess.

[kentauros]

36. I think Dubya would have put Hicks in prison at the first opportunity.

And Hicks' popularity would have gone up even further! }(

I'm the same with liking intelligent comedians. Eddie Izzard blew me away the first of his shows I ever saw (Dress to Kill.) Still, I found I couldn't stop watching "Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip" some months back. He's still hilarious!

As for the X, I've only ever had acid. So, I can relate to Hicks' accounts of being on acid, too ("The door is ajar. How can a door be a jar?!") :rofl:

[Nailzberg]

33. Thats pretty much normal pedestrian traffic any day of the week at Hollywood and Highland.

I avoid that area like the plague.

[BeHereNow]

35. Me too- except for Musso Frank...yum

And further east on the Blvd.
But Highland? FORGET it!
Tourist central.
BHN

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

38. They'll riot about a movie but not about an impending economic collapse?

America is becoming a funny, funny place.