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Taken from the Grammy Museum rooftop | Zach Behrens/LAist
Police quickly surrounded a man who was allegedly scalping on the corner of Figueroa and Olympic in front of the only major crowd outside L.A. LIve. Once in handcuffs, the crowd cheered as he was escorted into the security perimeter to a detainee holding area. A security guard placed on the rooftop of the Grammy Museum and Club Nokia said he had witnessed various people throughout the morning get arrested for the same thing.
Update: Chief William Bratton told KCAL9 that there were no arrests in the morning. Scalpers were warned that selling tickets would hold a certain risk of disciplinary action, Cheif Earl Paysinger told the media yesterday. The headline of this post, which indicated an arrest, has been changed to better reflect the nature of what was witnessed.
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Is the ticket scalping policy different for this event somehow? I thought in California it was legal unless done on the premise of the event. In checking around to various other "legal" ticket scalping websites at least two were selling pairs of tickets for $1100 yesterday. I know ebay was taking down any listings for them but I wonder how these "legitimate ticket brokers" get around it.
Large campaign contributions, I expect. Capitalism is generally illegal unless you pay off the government first.
FYI, it's a free event.
Yes, leave the scalping to the experts: Ticketmaster.
Yeah, is there actually a law against this, and if so, why? If people want to pay for tickets (for anything), why not?
It seems to me that the worst you're doing is breaking a contract with the ticket provider (AEG, Ticketmaster, whatever) that's part of the fine print of the ticket. Ticketmaster could sue you, but I don't know why the police should be allowed to arrest you.
Capitalism bad!
Those illegally detained for 'scalping' might have a case against the police.