State and local/campus police try to keep the revelers under control/limit property damage, death/injury. The kids are trying to incite the cops to *brutality*...it's a stupid game.
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/26/nyregion/a-conflagration-but-no-riot-this-time.html
“The kids are trying to incite the cops to *brutality*...it’s a stupid game.”
Well isn’t that just ducky ! Shame on them.
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