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The urge to be controversial to the point of being offensive continues to have negative repercussions for the band. Following the tragic [[the Station nightclub fire|Station nightclub fire]] during a [[Great White]] show in West Warwick, Rhode Island, Leftöver Crack began advertising a dangerous pyrotechnics display at their concerts. Despite the fact that no such display was actually prepared the New York Fire Department began shutting down all of their shows locally. They have also made enemies of New York Police Department whose members they openly advocate be murdered. In March 2007 police in Brooklyn New York threatened to shut down a benefit concert the band had organized for [[Daniel McGowan]] if the group took the stage. There was also a minor riot when the Police harassed a group waiting to buy merchandise from tables outside the venue in Orlando,FL after Leftover Crack played in early March, 2007. Cases of police brutality are cited from this evening.

As show goers made their way out of the Back Booth after the Leftover Crack show, police suddenly converged on the scene. A young girl, around the age of 18, was standing against the wall of the venue with a friend, getting some much-needed fresh air. Within minutes, the girl found herself being viciously thrown to the ground by the police. She screamed as loud as she could for help, while one cop handcuffed her and dragged her from the sidewalk into the street. A friend of the girl pleaded with the police to stop hurting her, but was violently thrown against a pole by the same officer. This is just one account of at least a dozen unjust arrests and authority abuses that took place that night.

About 12 young people who attended the show that evening were unjustly arrested, and some are being charged with felonies. There were hundreds of people outside the show who witnessed the police brutality that evening. I, being one of them, saw numerous people being attacked and arrested by the

police for doing absolutely nothing.

==Selected Discography==