Of course the liberal progressive good times rock n roll hippy authorities ignored this fire trap because they agreed or identified with the philosophy. As others have said, if that venue had been occupied in similar manner by a conservative or ‘right wing’ group it would have been shut down. Liberal’s and progressives are not concerned about laws unless others are breaking them. Think of the egregious crimes and law breaking by hellary and her bunch of progressive thugs-nary a concern by just us. That was a horrible tragedy that occurred because a bunch of clueless progressives allowed those conditions to exist. Now they will be scrambling to make it Bush’s or Trump’s fault.
Conservative or Right Wing groups would have taken one look at the violations and fixed that crap up on their own if public officials had not responded to complaints. They would have notified the owner and chief tenet of their rights under landlord tenet laws. They would have filed suit for recovery of any money lost because of the violations. They would have dogged officials to get appropriate action. They sure as heck would not have been defenseless against the chief tenet threatening them with a gun. They would have made sure that any homeless sent to harass them know this would not be a good place for them.
In short they would have done what responsible grown ups do when faced with a problem that could lead to life threatening consequences. They would not have just put up with it because of convenience or other lame excuse.