"If the Sox regularly won the Pennant the way the Yankees do, the cops may have had a better plan in place."
The cops are supposed to be professional. They shouldn't need a the Sox to regularly win to have a plan. Certainly they had some old plans from the DNC though.
"But these "fans" were nuts and what the cops had to do to control thems did not seem out of the question."
No argument here. The police were in full right to control and disperse the crowd. My beef is in the way they did it.
"It's too bad this girl died but as another poster stated, when cops are in the area, you should leave. There is no excuse for people to act this way whether their team wins or loses."
I guess I take the death of an innocent a little more seriously than you. I don't think there is a valid excuse, and if I were mayor the police chief would be gone, and the cop involved demoted to traffic duty. No, people shouldn't act like morons when their team wins or loses, but neither should the police. The police, here, did not do a good job of protecting the people.
"The police were in full right to control and disperse the crowd. My beef is in the way they did it."
Mine, too. Any group of idiots who riot because their team won or lost should be dealt with using live ammunition.
Think of it as a "team entry" into the Darwin Awards.