Over the weekend, Miami played host to one of the biggest electronic music events in the States – Ultra Music Festival. Revellers will now be looking forward to the next one.
Miami city officials however are not impressed and might not let that happen. Officials are calling for the end of Ultra Music Festival in downtown Miami after Contemporary Services Corporation guard Erica Mack was trampled Friday night while trying to stop a group of people who didn’t have tickets who stormed a fence to get inside. Mack, 28, was listed as “critical” but stable at Jackson Memorial Hospital with severe brain haemorrhaging and a broken leg.
It was this episode that’s finally pulled the ‘last-straw’ for Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado along with City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff as they want Ultra Fest out. “The mayor and I will be proposing a resolution in front of the commission that would deny them the ability to have Ultra in the future,” said Sarnoff. “I think they have overstayed their welcome.”
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