‘Electric Daisy Carnival’ Premiere Causes Riot In Hollywood

What was meant to be a fun premiere of the documentary Electric Daisy Carnival Experience turned into a riot when DJ Kaskade tested the powers of social networking yesterday. “Today@6pm in Hollywood @Mann’s Chinese Theatre. ME+BIG SPEAKERS+MUSIC=BLOCK PARTY!!! RT!,” the DJ alerted his 90,000 followers. And if you tweet it, they will come. Hundreds of non-ticketed fans descending upon Hollywood Blvd. expecting an all-out fiesta. But the talks of big speakers and music were just talk, as Kaskade’s flatbed truck never made it onto the scene.

Kaskade pleaded through Twitter, “EVERYONE NEEDS TO GO HOME NOW! . . . BE RESPECTFUL AND CHILL OUT!!!” But his tweets made little effect on the size of the crowd. When police attempted to disperse the electro fans themselves, bottles were thrown at police and a near-riot broke out.

Nonlethal beanbags were fired into the large crowd to help break up the melee. LAPD officers detained dozens of rioters, many of them released without being charged, though two people were arrested for vandalizing police cars. And like most things that happen in real life, it was captured and put on the Internet:

The Electric Daisy Carnival is no stranger to controversy recently — the LA-based rave moved to Las Vegas after extreme crowd-control problems, as well as the possibly drug-related death of a 15-year-old girl at the 2010 event.

[Via MTV]