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Originally Posted by Chiefs4TheWin:
Yeah and I actually can't blame them either. Fucking awful.
I really hope not. Obviously, the fact that this happened near the parade sucks, but in theory, the same thing could have happened on a random Friday night in P&L with the same result. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Eleazar:
Large, free events in public places downtown are going to attract a lot of problems today. This isn't especially new and it's not unique to KC.
Maybe this event is just too large to manage safely.
This is why I don't even go to pre-season games anymore and likely wouldn't take free tickets in the upper bowl.
$5 tickets to a pre-season game and you have folks in there just looking to get ripped and fight someone.
Free events in major metropolitan areas are pretty much just invitations to deal with stupid people's bullshit at this point. I ain't going. [Reply]
Originally Posted by penguinz:
JFC just shut the fuck up. Police do not keep people safe. They are there to deal with the aftermath of whatever crime happened.
Originally Posted by bdj23:
Probably looking for cars to break into. That kind of shit happens all the time at these high profile events. The last time i was in STL something like 25 cars got broken into the morning of the game we thankfully decided to skip
Yeah, didn't think of that. Parking garage as the scene anyway.
There's often a social media component to this stuff too. One of these teenage gangbangers sees that someone he has beef with is posting Snaps from the rally, so he gets his own guys to head down there and start trouble, which is why they aren't dressed like Chiefs fans and why they come loaded for bear [Reply]
Originally Posted by DaFace:
I really hope not. Obviously, the fact that this happened near the parade sucks, but in theory, the same thing could have happened on a random Friday night in P&L with the same result.
It happened on First Friday a few years ago and utterly destroyed a family. It also happened to my old roommate, right in front of his wife and kids coming out of a restaurant in DC. Neither was in a bad neighborhood or doing anything sketchy. [Reply]
