Mob Helps Itself to Beer and Cigarettes at Sacramento Stores

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[chance33_98]

Ping!

[JoJo Gunn]

Look for white people in white vans!

So, do I get a reward?

[chance33_98]

[amstaff1]

Your reward will be diversity sensitivity training. Report to the U of Ca. Berkeley campus Monday morning.

[Kaiwen]

"We're not going to lose our lives over some chips and sodas," said store clerk Teresa Galvan.

Teresa, if you don't want to be robbed, you need to make the thieves think that.

[sheik yerbouty]

"Honor students"

[KneelBeforeZod]

repartaions ping!

reward is only $1,000....not $30,000? must be the group discount.

[KneelBeforeZod]

followed by looting the Gap and The Atheletes Foot on Telegraph avenue.

Fraternity: Post-game UC-Berkeley area looting not result of party (U. California-Berkeley) By Will Evans Daily Californian (U. California-Berkeley) 10/17/2000

(U-WIRE) BERKELEY, Calif. -- As Athlete's Foot on Telegraph Avenue opened for business Monday with a brand new plate glass window, the looters who broke the window Saturday night tried on their approximately 250 brand new shoes.

The melee, which broke out along Telegraph Avenue at approximately 12:30 a.m., left in its wake 13 businesses with property damage and three 16-year-old Berkeley High School students with arrests for possession of stolen property, said Berkeley police Lt. Russell Lopes. He said the damage was estimated at $100,000 but will probably triple as it is further assessed.

University of California at Berkeley police Capt. Bill Cooper said the looting broke out after hundreds of youths showed up at a Kappa Alpha Psi after-game party in the Pauley Ballroom and could not get in because it was full, they were not invited and many were underage.

The crowds outside swelled when a fire alarm was pulled in the building and, after police tried to make the group disperse, some youths began running down Telegraph Avenue.

"The melee that occurred I wouldn't attribute to our event at all," said Ron Patterson, president of the fraternity. "The people who were (outside) were not personally invited. It just happened that our event was right there. We're not responsible (or) liable."

Patterson said he wishes the issue would "die down" since it inaccurately reflects negatively on the black fraternity.

"We are an African American organization and people will say what they want to say," he said. "We've been dealing with this ever since we started in the early 1900s."

The fraternity started in 1947 at Berkeley but was originally founded in 1911 at Indiana University among a predominantly white student body and an "extremely racist atmosphere," Patterson said.

Kappa Alpha Psi is a nonprofit community service organization that runs a tutoring program and, because it donates all of its profits, cannot afford a house with the other fraternities, he said.

Frank Scott, a junior studying African American studies who attended a fraternity discussion of the Million Man March Monday, said Saturday's incident was only the "tip of the iceberg."

"The underlying issues of students' and youths' needs not being met is the root cause and condition of the tension in the community," he said. "(These youth) have a lot of energy and it can be accessed in a positive way if you give them positive outlets. The event was a positive outlet, but it was shut down."

Both the UC police and Karen Kenney, dean of students, said the fraternity was very cooperative and responsible. It met 10 days before the event with police to discuss how many people would be attending and limited it to UC Berkeley students, their guests and several members of fraternities on other campuses. Kenney's office is investigating whether any policies were broken.

She said a similar incident broke out in 1992 from overcrowding at an on-campus event.

Despite criticism that police responded too little and too late, Berkeley police Lt. Russell Lopes said officers did everything they could. He said every on-duty officer in the city of Berkeley that night, totaling 18, were taken off their beat and sent to Telegraph Avenue. If Berkeley police had tripled that amount and UC police had doubled theirs, Lopes said they still could not have avoided the looting.

Lopes also said it will be difficult to find any of the other looters.

Contrary to television reports that police used tear gas and rubber bullets, Lopes said the appearance of smoke was caused by looters who sprayed stolen fire extinguishers. Bullet casings, from several different handguns, were found by police.

[Thorondir]

Here's the hip hop culture comin' at ya! Let's all celebrate perversity. (gag)

Liberalism must be crushed!

[musicman]

.....(whispering here....which white vans????....the ones
WITH the ladder rack,or the ones without???....we can split
the reward....)

[Illbay]

The thefts occurred after a hip-hop dance broke up at the Sacramento Armory.

"However, authorities say there is no known connection between the two events."

[chasio649]

i would love for someone to explain the virtues of the hip-hop culture to me.....anybody???

[Illbay]

It sells records.

[chance33_98]

The demand for oversize pants has went up, which means more stores are carrying my size.

[Illbay]

BTW, the simple fact that you correctly spelled every word in your reply proves that you don't "get" the hip-hop 'cult-cha'.

[chasio649]

word up beeatch??

[Mind-numbed Robot]

"The underlying issues of students' and youths' needs not being met is the root cause and condition of the tension in the community," he said. "(These youth) have a lot of energy and it can be accessed in a positive way if you give them positive outlets. The event was a positive outlet, but it was shut down."

So they positively destroyed everything. Good energy transfer, don't you think?

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

That quote reminds me of a Mike Royko article along similar lines;

http://members.aol.com/erbeman/stories/oldmanwassucker.html