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Did puff daddy sacrifice 8 people in 1991? Pregnant Woman & 8 People Crushed CCNY Stampede Heavy D. & Puff Daddy Celebrity Basketball Charity Game 1991

Did puff daddy sacrifice 8 people in 1991? Pregnant Woman & 8 People Crushed CCNY Stampede Heavy D. & Puff Daddy Celebrity Basketball Charity  Game 1991  ”It doesn’t take an Einstein to know that young people attending a rap concert…who have paid as much as $20 a ticket, would not be very happy and easy to control if they were unable to gain admission to the event because it was oversold.” Those were the words of Judge Louis C. Benza of the  New York  State Court of Claims in sorting out the question of civil liability for one of the worst music-related tragedies in recent American history. Judge Benza’s 73-page decision, issued seven years after nine young people died in a crowd stampede on December 28, 1991, placed 50 percent of the blame for those deaths on the venue’s owner, the City University of New York, and 50 percent on the event’s promoters, rapper Dwight “Heavy D” Myers and the then largely unknown hip-hop impresario Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs. Shortl...