Posted on 04/28/2013 9:20:45 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Fifteen police units and a SWAT van were spotted responding to a block party that a police officer said turned into an 800-person riot Saturday night, just blocks from the southwest corner of CSU’s campus.
Police had arrived at the scene at 8:30 p.m. in response to noise complaints about the event, which at the time included 50 people. After Fort Collins Police Services addressed the crowd and departed from the scene, hundreds more flocked to the six to seven condos apparently still hosting the party, shouting ”F*** the police!” “Go CSU!” “Proud to be a Ram!” and “F*** CSUPD!” according to witnesses. Others saw partygoers climbing up streetlight poles, onto the roofs of multiple houses, and one car, swinging it back and forth, shouting “F*** CU!” and causing its roof and windshield to collapse.
Sources said the police looked on as the owner of the car frantically pulled people off right before tear gas was deployed to disperse the crowd of mostly CSU students.
“We heard bangs, the electricity went out and people started running,” said Nic Vasquez, a junior environmental health major who saw the scene unfold.
Partygoers and FCPS Lt. Russell Reed said that some attendees had begun throwing beer bottles at the police officers, none of whom were wearing helmets at the time. Reed said this prompted police to fire tear gas into the crowd before 11 p.m. and clear out the area by midnight.
“Yeah, I’d call that a riot,” he said. “When our officers have to use gas to get themselves out of a situation because of the immaturity of the crowd… yeah, that’s a riot.”
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/johnny
not a block party...a drunken brawl
It was a riot.
Headline writer was feeling timid, I guess.
indeed it was
Since pot is now legal I guess this can’t happen.
I wonder how many were under 21?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/28/colorado-student-riot/2119065/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF45qvydwwU
I’ve often read your postings and enjoyed them.
Sure would have helped if you had indicated in Keywords what the hell CSU was or where it was.
Project X
“We heard bangs, the electricity went out and people started running,” said Nic Vasquez, a junior environmental health major”
Wondering if this shitbird environmental health major considered doing a study on the environmental impact of tear gas on drunk, going nowhere, college students.
FCSU
“...because of the immaturity of the crowd...”
Huh??? I’m no police spokesman, but I’d say it was the booze. Some of these “students” are no doubt older than the officers they were attacking, though for purposes of ObamaCare they are “children” until the age of 26.
and congress changed the voting age so many of these idiots vote.
Since pot is now legal I guess this can’t happen.
Legalizing pot was supposed to stop drunken violence? According to who?
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