SO California is broke.............

[Total_Blender]

If the city denied MJ's public funeral, there would have been some sort of public gathering anyway, whether MJ's people organized it or not. MJ really has a cult following like no other entertainer before or since, and LA was the epicenter of his fan base. The fact was that MJ was going to draw a crowd, whether it was a well-organzied, orderly event or a loosely organized, anarchic mob... people were going to show up.

[Vteckidd]

If the city denied MJ's public funeral, there would have been some sort of public gathering anyway, whether MJ's people organized it or not. MJ really has a cult following like no other entertainer before or since, and LA was the epicenter of his fan base. The fact was that MJ was going to draw a crowd, whether it was a well-organzied, orderly event or a loosely organized, anarchic mob... people were going to show up.

Ok so then you have your regularly scheduled police (not collecting overtime) disperse the crowd, or tell them to form in a park somewhere. That would not have cost 1/100th of what this did.

There was other ways to do this