L.A. riot police fire rubber bullets at ravers

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Rioting youths attack police car as officers struggle to control mob of angry ravers who 'started fires' on Hollywood Boulevard

Riot police fired rubber bullets at a huge crowd of young ravers after the rioting youths sparked mayhem on Hollywood Boulevard.

Authorities were called after the youngsters threw bottles and set fire to cars after being denied entry to a Hollywood film première.

The unruly crowd began partying on the streets in protest and when they refused to disperse, officers took drastic action.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ravers-Hollywood-Boulevard.html#ixzz1TOonrVRR

 

[AndroidsDreamofBTC]

Wow, that's pretty wild. But I mean, wtf does Hollywood have to do with real rave culture?

 

[23536]

LA passed a law making raves illegal after that 15-year-old girl died last year.

 

[LogicSoDeveloped]

^is that legal? and how'd the girl die? I never thought I'd hear of la being anything but laid back.

 

[NeighborhoodThreat]

Made a law making raves completely illegal? What's up with LA? I thought they had a big EDM/rave scene there...

 

[ResinTeeth]

Headline: Raves Made Illegal! Easy-Listening Parties Demonstrate New Depths of Depravity!

 

[23536]

Apparently the law didn't exactly fly. This is the original story:

http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/threads/...tion-would-ban-raves-at-publicly-owned-venues

and this is an update:

http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2011/04/rave_act_fiona_ma_california.php#more

(I think I met this lady at a party at Berkeley)

 

[severely etarded]

What pissed off the ravers?

 

[Newbierock]

the youngsters threw bottles and set fire to cars after being denied entry to a Hollywood film première.

Bit of a shitty reason..

 

[ResinTeeth]

Bit of a shitty reason..

Agreed. Imo being denied entry to a film premier and then deciding that the best course of action is to break shit and set fire to cars is pretty much begging for a mouthful of rubber riot shot. Overeager fucks always tryin to protest the most nonsensical shit.

 

[severely etarded]

give MDMA munching educated ravers a bad names. Half those morons were probably "rolling" on methylone butylone pokeball fakes and the others were probably on pipes... Socal is pretty MDMA-dry lately from what I hear.

 

[Bomboclat]

A bunch of my friends were at this event, who all came back to say that although yes, it got way out of hand, it wasnt as crazy as the media portrays. Think LA Laker win but with teenagers.