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Hizzona in the hizzle: Wants review of concert chaos
By adamg on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 1:14pm
Miller raps about sexin' up bitches and hoes under a Menino banner. Video | Lyrics
The Herald reports Mayor Menino is meeting with advisors today to discuss "unrest" at Saturday's Mac Miller show, which featured a rapper making more explicit references to the druggy lifestyle than the T-shirts the mayor blasted Niketown for displaying in its storefront on Newbury Street - plus bonus random mayhem as some fans took the opportunity to pummel each other and throw water bottles into the air.
In the video above, Miller performed "Donald Trump," whose lyrics explain how he plans to treat the gold diggers he claims ignored him before he became famous, only in terms more explicit than the titles from 1930s-era movies. He also performed Nikes on My Feet, in which Miller, not yet old enough to legally drink, extols the virtues of expensive booze and "smoking all the weed that I used to sell." In June, Menino demanded Niketown remove T-shirts reading "Get High."
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All suburbanites must carry a
All suburbanites must carry a Boston passport and are subject to searches.
I wish this could really
I wish this could really happen
WHITE RIOT
Can anyone explain why the media is downplaying this incident. I applaud Universal Hub and Boston Barstool for forcing the Globe and Herald to look into this story. I still cannot fathom why no one was arrested based on the videos.
My Guess?
Cops don't want to deal with all the paperwork for a bunch of kids from Newton and Wellesley who will just have things "taken care of" by daddy anyway?
Because the editors of the
Because the editors of the newspapers are racists? Because they hate black people and love their caucasian brothers? Yeah, that's the ticket.
Maybe this wasn't as much of
Maybe this wasn't as much of a melee as being blogged about here. That sounds more reasonable explanation than claiming that there is cover-up led by whom... the mayor? the editors of the Globe? and the Herald? and all of the tv stations?.... or maybe led by all of the above.
to make an arrest for assault
to make an arrest for assault and battery the cop would have to witness it as it happened. The videos are after the fact so you would have to seek criminal complaints in court if you could ID the suspects.
There's also something called "affray"
Do you need a victim for that in order to bring a charge?
Because a bunch of white kids
Because a bunch of white kids acting like spoiled brats while listening to an inoffensive white rapper isn't news that makes even older white people scared.
Mayor's Cronies Covered it Up
as they always do. The guy is DONE
Mumblespalooza.
Mumblespalooza.
I think this didn't get as
I think this didn't get as much play for a few reasons, the most important being that it went down on a saturday night, when the newsrooms are pretty much empty. But it wasn't for lack of trying. I know all sunday the Herald was attempting to find out information about it. And really, I don't think they were consciously ignoring it. Because think about it...there's nothing that the crotchety old readers like more than a story about how those darn thugs are ruining the city, etc etc. They'll take any opportunity and run with it.
May I humbley suggest. . .
an agenda item? If we have a police force that doesn't sense trouble-a-coming when bottles start flying around. If they can't seem to organize the dispersal of a crowd like that . . . Does that mean we need to hold the Commish accountable and get a new one? Discuss amongst yourselves.
If they were empty plastic water bottles ...
they aren't going to hurt anyone much. In some of the videos it looked like the crowd was just batting them around as if they were balloons.
So they changed the name from "Peace HipHop Festival"
to "Urban Music Spectacular" or whatever, in the hope of attracting a "more diverse" (whiter?? or less peaceful??) crowd, and this is what they got for their bright idea. Ironic. At least nobody was seriously hurt.