BlackListed News | KIT DANIELS | December 14, 2015

The LAPD and private security are targeting random people with ‘stop-and-frisk’ searches on public sidewalks before the premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. 

Photo: TMZ

Police have also installed metal detectors on the sidewalks near the famous TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, Calif.

Security will be tight 4 the latest #StarWars premiere tonight. Metal detectors have been set-up. @KNX1070 @CBSLA pic.twitter.com/uGY8oLWbXX

— Jon Baird (@KNXBaird) December 14, 2015

The Star Wars premiere is on my street. Sorta cool pic.twitter.com/xkf11Yy8Hc

— DMF The Kid (@dmfdmfmusic) December 14, 2015

“LAPD and private security officers are already blanketing several square blocks around the famed Chinese Theatre, where The Force Awakens event is going down,” TMZ revealed. “We’ve learned anyone strolling through the [public] area could be searched, frisked, and even wanded with metal detectors.”

#StarWarsForceAwakens Hollywood premiere street closures. https://t.co/Hpx0etV1dH pic.twitter.com/AyLwkdsE9o

— FOX 11 Los Angeles (@myfoxla) December 14, 2015

In other words, even people not associated with the event who are simply passing through a public area are subject to a warrantless search.

Section of Hollywood Blvd closed for world premiere of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” https://t.co/02wMSal2mi pic.twitter.com/WbLzeMjlYb

— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) December 14, 2015

The film is premiering at the theatre Dec. 14, three days before its official U.S. release on Dec. 17.