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The Fear of the Riot Sike
The reason why the show didn't stop is that, at least the story we've been told, is that the local authorities thought if we stopped the show, it might get worse. Do you think that hunch holds water? No. Their specific fear was a riot. And a riot and a crowd surge are two very different things. A riot something like a guns and roses in saint louis in, i want to say, 19 91. People don't get killed, destroy a lot of property, but nobody died that day. I think worrying about a riot is is a sort of a misplaced fear. The idea that the police didn't necessarily trust this crowd to leave in an orderly
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