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Pod Crashing Episode 219 With Janice Liamoca From Party Crews Award-Winning Journalist Janice Llamoca Revisits Her Y2K Party Crew Days and a Crime That Shaped the Narrative of the Scene in New Podcast - Party Crews: The Untold Story From VICE, LAist Studios and iHeartMedia's My Cultura Podcast Network, New Limited Series Launched March 14th WHAT: For many Latinx kids in the 2000s, the party crew scene was a safe space to express themselves as they came of age in the grit and glitter of Los Angeles. A space to make friends, forget about your problems and dance the night away. But the scene wasn't always physically safe. There were shootings, police raids, and many adults saw it as gang-adjacent. The media fueled negative stereotypes of out-of-control kids. One of the teens who got caught in that narrative was Emmery Muñoz, who was murdered in 2006. In the early 2000s, Janice Llamoca was a member of an all-girl party crew called the Lustful Laydeez. Although she left that world behind as an adult, learning about Emmery's story quickly pulled her back. In Party Crews: The Untold Story, Janice goes on a Y2K-filled journey back to her own party crew days to find out what this scene meant for teens like her and Emmery, and why - to this day - Emmery's case remains unsolved.