CovOps
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| Subject: Washington: Riot at Evergreen State College Sat Feb 16, 2008 5:07 am | |
| Friday, February 15 2008 @ 10:55 AM PST
Last night, following a Dead Prez concert, a campus police officer at Evergreen State College in Olympia took a student into custody for allegedly fighting with another student. After a few students began yelling, in order to call attention to the police misconduct, a crowd of 200 (according to corporate press) surrounded the officer's patrol car which contained the student and officer. The crowd began screaming, "Let him go!" and refused to allow the patrol car to move.
Terrified by the power of the students, the officer let the arrestee go and called for back up. Upon arrival, the back up rushed the officer out of the crowd, leaving behind multiple patrol cars. The cars had windows smashed out of them, were looted, and spray painted. One police car was flipped and completely totalled. On a wall behind the flipped car someone spray painted, "Welcome to Evergreen! (A)." Soon it became clear that a few police officers would not be able to subdue the crowd, so riot squads were quickly mobilized. Students were shot at with pepper spray and rubber bullets before finally dispersing. Video coverage can be seen here:
http://www.komotv.com/news/local/15665292.html
With this type of resistance becoming increasingly popular and liberals now using terms such as, "direct action" the Political Conventions this summer will prove to be rather interesting.
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20080215105517174 |
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RR Phantom
Location : Wasted Space Job/hobbies : Cayman Islands Actuary
| Subject: Re: Washington: Riot at Evergreen State College Sat Feb 16, 2008 5:22 pm | |
| Very encouraging!! |
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