LA officials scramble to arrange crowd control for Jackson memorial

• Staples Centre has a capacity for 20,000 at most • 11,000 tickets to be distributed free Michael Jackson rehearses at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on 23 June. Photograph: Kevin Mazur/AP Los Angeles police and city officials will be scrambling through the weekend to prepare for a memorial for on Tuesday in an attempt to prevent the scenes of chaos and confusion that have marked the eight days since his death. With the family finally settled on a Tuesday morning event at the Staples Centre in downtown LA, the city now is now bracing itself for the gathering of what is expected to be an enormous crowd of Jackson fans. The…

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