[The Hound Passer]

"I guess the "maroons" should have let this bunch burned and destroy as they pleased."

That isn't the issue. The issue is that the police overreacted and an innocent girl was killed because of it. I don't think anyone thinks the police should not do their job, or protect themselves, but to shoot point blank randomly into a crowd doesn't seem very effective unless your aim is to wound or kill randomly. That isn't good police work. The police knew the crowd that would appear if the Sox one. I support the police, but not in this case. They clearly did not prepare for the celebrants or how they would control the crowd.

[maksim]

How do you know that police "shoot point blank randomly into a crowd"? Isn't it possible that when a policeman made a shot his horse jerked or something else happened? This kind of accusations and talk comes usually from our democratic friends. We should adhere to an attitude of reason.

[jrg]

That's one reason I could never be a cop. I see pictures of this kind of crap on TV and think that if you'd shoot some of them, preferably in the legs, (with real bullets, not pansy paint balls), these incidents would occur less frequently. The problem in this country is that there are no consequences for actions anymore. "ooohhh, can't punish the criminal, his daddy left him when he was little"..

[Just mythoughts]

This burning, rioting, and trashing cities when a sports team wins is not a new thing. Anybody who showed up to celebrate could not have gone ignorant to this common occurrence. The Cops are known to 'overreact', when crimes and attacks are being committed.

[csvset]

Rioting is always fun until someone gets hurt.

[rabidralph]

If the Sox regularly won the Pennant the way the Yankees do, the cops may have had a better plan in place. But these "fans" were nuts and what the cops had to do to control thems did not seem out of the question. 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.

[Sirc_Valence]

The Hound Passer: "The issue is that the police overreacted and an innocent girl was killed because of it."

The POLICE were very restrained, and more "innocent" girls would have been killed if that were not the case.

The Hound Passer: "The police knew the crowd that would appear if the Sox one. They clearly did not prepare for the celebrants or how they would control the crowd."

No, dumb libs like you are to blame. There's a term for it: enabler. Crowds are not supposed to behave this way and you should be happy that more orcs didn't perish in their chaotic and destructive "celebration".

[r9etb]

That isn't the issue.

Yes it is. The cops were surrounded by people who were beginning an honest-to-goodness riot. Do you suggest that the cops should have read 19th century French poetry to calm the crowd?

[RobRoy]

>>The issue is that the police overreacted and an innocent girl was killed because of it.<<

The police did not overreact. Her death was an accident, as the death of a passenger who was not wearing a seat belt in a car accident is an accident.

A freak accident, apparently...

[DJ MacWoW]

From the article: "One officer was stunned at the ferocity of the violence. ``I saw the horses surrounded,'' he said. ``It was like a vacuum. They got sucked in. I saw guys holding small trees they had pulled out of the ground like warriors. They were holding steel sign posts they had bent over and broken. We had to fight to get control.''"

Yeah. You're right. The police over-reacted and there was no danger at all.