Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Students Are Back And Ready To Party

As the DE reported yesterday, and the Arbor District passed along, a party at the corner of Walnut and James Street attracted an estimated 700 and  ended with the police called in about 2 a.m Sunday morning., using tear gas to break up a fight between two women before others got involved.

Update:  The police department has more here.  Apparently, there have been complaints by those involved about police bodyslamming attendees against cars  while breaking up the party, with one woman arrested for aggravated battery to a police officer.   If you are attending a party this size, and it gets raucous enough that the police need to use tear gas to get things under control, and you don't want to get body slammed against a vehicle, getting out of the area is probably a good idea.

4 comments:

  1. The police URL didn't work.

    Is this the one?
    http://carbondalepolice.com/node/1481

    ReplyDelete
  2. sthorne: Have you been asked to retract this post?

    "Cheng said she thought the two photos the Daily Egyptian ran in the Monday edition negatively portrayed SIU and requested a retraction by email. The photo on the cover depicted a crowd running away from a cloud of tear gas; the picture on page two showed Ross being apprehended in the middle of the street."

    Read more: http://dailyegyptian.com/2012/08/28/stories-vary-on-melee/#ixzz24wF3x9yN

    ReplyDelete
  3. Nope. Seems silly for the Chancellor to ask for a retraction since the facts of the story seem pretty clear. There was a large party, a fight started, police got called and one person got arrested. From what I have heard, Councilwoman McDaniels has gotten a few calls from people complaining about partygoers getting bodyslammed by police. used to break up the party

    ReplyDelete