Riot breaks out on Hollywood Boulevard
About a thousand people turn up for invitation-only party, rave movie screening
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BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor: In LA last night, the premiere of a movie about a techno music festival spiraled out of control when a deejay threw out an open invitation on Twitter . Thousands of people then showed up. Witnesses said when police responded to the growing crowd, they were taunted, some bottles were thrown. Then the riot squad came out, dispersed the fans with nonlethal bean bags fired from guns. The movie is called the the "Electric Daisy Carnival Experience." It documents a party that is controversial in itself. A 15 -year-old girl died of a drug overdose at last
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