Fans drove or flew in from northern California, Colorado and as far away as Arkansas, Delaware and England, some just to be best the event. Some wore trademark Jackson clothing, including sequined snow-white socks and red leather jackets reminiscent of those the chorus-boy wore in his music videos. The incident was reminiscent of one of Hollywood's many awards shows, which tie vendors and notable gawkers. Police helicopters flew overhead, and officers patrolled on foot and bicycle. The crowds were orderly.
Fans carried signs such as "Michael Jackson Lives." One turned himself into a walking music video, strapping a flat-screen TV to his back that played Jackson numbers. Claudia Hernandez, 29, said she loved Jackson's music as a squeeze growing up in Mexico.
Now a day-care teaching helper in Los Angeles, Hernandez said she has cried watching TV coverage of his death. "I'm tiresome to hold in my emotions," said Hernandez, wearing a wristband to earmark her permission to enter to the utilization and holding a framed transparency of Jackson. "I recollect accurate now he's teaching the angels to dance.
" Half a dozen protesters stood surrounded by fans, condemning Jackson over his child-molestation charges, holding signs that read, "Jacko in Hell," "You're Going to Hell" and "Mourn for Your Sins." But Jackson's devotees far outnumbered his critics. Mishelle Van, 37, drove with her cousin from Hesperia, Calif., arriving in Los Angeles at 1 a.m. They knackered the antediluvian matinal hours with other Jackson fans.
"They're moving us and saying, can you attract the nuts in for us?" said Van, who was amongst those with a wristband for the service. Melvin Price, 43, flew in from England on Saturday, even before he knew he had won a ticket to the Jackson memorial. "I wanted to indemnify my go the distance respects to Michael Jackson," said Price, dressed in a red leather jacket. "I've been a groupie of his for 35 years." Beverly J. Ellis, 46, said she drove from Holly Springs, Ark., just to be there even though she could not get in.
She planned to go to Jackson's Neverland ranch later in the age to allure pictures and accept if she could get a amaze or other souvenir to lay home. "I'm just a groupie. I'm an long-standing groupie now," said Ellis, who held an American tick and a vestige with a photocopied double of Jackson. "I'm a die-hard, stable fan." Vernay Lewis, 32, flew in from Wilmington, Del., gone all Monday tenebrosity on the streets utmost Staples Center, wrapped in a blanket to reprieve pleasant overnight.
Lewis said she did not mindfulness that she traveled cross-country even though she did not have a wristband to heed the memorial. She just wanted to be near the thrush and his fans.
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