Ban On Raves Prompted By Death Of A Teenager
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While the age-minimum at the rave was 16, Sasha Rodriguez died Tuesday after attending the 14th annual Electric Daisy Carnival that took place at the Coliseum. Over 100 other concert goers were hospitalized after the event.
County Supervisor and Coliseum Commission Member Zev Yaroslavsky wrote a letter to Coliseum Commission President Barry Sanders, proposing "a moratorium on the renting of its facilities to anyindividual or company that promotes raves."
A date has not been set to meet about the ban.
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[...] major electronic dance event in the Los Angeles region has ended without any major incidents since the death of a 15-year-old girl at a similar event in June prompted concerns about lax security at music [...]
[...] the county and the City of Los Angeles. The commission that oversees the Coliseum has already temporarily banned new raves from being contracted to take place at the [...]
This is typical "Think of the Children!" hysteria. One hundred eighty-five THOUSAND people attended EDC. One person died. Aren't we overreacting just a bit? Oh, I know, hundreds of people die in car crashes, so we should ban all driving! Right?
I hope this ban does not become law. Big "raves" like this add character to a city and are a great place for people to get together creatively. Drugs? Sure, but they're also everywhere else. The crackdown on big parties across America has been a big negative for lots of youth; let L.A. stay strong and not pass a reactionary policy based on a young person's bad decision (albeit with a really sad, probably preventable, result).