They came from everywhere. On the morning of July 7, 2009, the streets surrounding Staples Center in Los Angeles filled with thousands of fans who could not get inside — holding signs, photographs, single white gloves, and each other.
The public memorial was by ticket only. According to the Los Angeles Times, approximately 1.6 million people registered online for the 17,500 available tickets through a lottery system managed by the City of Los Angeles. The demand was so overwhelming that the city set up large public viewing screens at nearby Nokia Theatre — now the Crypto.com Arena annex — to accommodate those who could not enter. LAPD deployed one of the largest crowd management operations in the city's history for a single-day event, as reported by the Los Angeles Times on July 8, 2009.
The fans outside those barriers loved Michael just as fiercely as anyone inside.
Were you one of the fans watching from somewhere else that day — a screen, a phone, a television? Tell us where you were 
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