Boiler Room Weekender Festival Shut Down Following Police Activity

The event was cut short early Sunday morning.

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At roughly 2 A.M. this morning, the first annual Ray-Ban x Boiler Room Weekender Festival at Split Rock Resort in Lake Harmony, Pennsylvania was reportedly shut down by police. The two-day event was brought to a halt as officers arrested one attendee, Thump reports. Witnesses say that multiple arrests occurred during the incident. It is unclear how many attendees were arrested in total. 

Footage of local police arresting a black woman in her mid-twenties at the event has surfaced online. The video shows the woman being pushed into a police car by an officer as another attendee asks for the officer's badge number, escalating the incident. The attendee who shared the video explains that her phone was taken by an employee of the Split Rock Resort as she filmed the incident and was returned to her with a shattered screen. The video, however, was left intact.

“We don't have the exact details of what transpired, but for the safety of all our artists and guests we had to shutdown," a spokesperson for the event tells Pitchfork. 

Watch footage of the arrest below.

 

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