Shortly after midnight on Sunday morning police began to receive reports of persons tearing down street signs in the West College, West Cherry and Beveridge Street area of the city. Several street lights were also reported knocked out. (No parking signs, stop signs, any thing on a post was thrown into the street).

At approximately 1:15 am persons were observed chanting and entering the downtown area on foot. (I was one of these people. When I got there, cops were already in full riot gear waiting) Shortly thereafter, these persons gathered with others already collected in the downtown area and once again closed South Illinois Ave. Exact totals are not available, but the crowd was estimated to be larger than the night before. (I guessed it was about 400 people in the area, maybe 50 of which were in the street doing actual illegal things. The rest were like spectators.)

Almost immediately (15-20 minutes, tops) observers saw and heard bottles being thrown and broken in the street. Police moved into the area and established police lines in order to prevent the destructive movements of the mob from the night before. (This is a total lie. They herded the crowd into a residential area where they let them destroy anything they wanted. This is also a mainly student residential area.) To prevent injury to the officers from the bottles being thrown, the police were wearing protective visors. (And those big clear shields, jackboots, and mace canisters.)

The police officers were immediately pelted with full bottles and beer cans which conmtinued for approximately 10-15 minutes. (This seems accurate enough. Of course, they fail to mention the officers who had black broomsticks which they used to "disperse" the innocent crowd standing by the sidewalk, most of whom were sober and not throwing anything. These people had very little freedom of movement, not wating to take to the street, but unable to run toward police on sidewalks either.)

The police then ordered three times for the mob to disperse or mace would be used (I heard no warning, but it was kinda loud). The crowd ignored the warnings and continued to throw objects and surge (more of a crawl, since they kept getting beat up) towards the police line. At that point, police released pepper gas into the mob and they dispersed for a short time. The mob then returned to the street, continued to throw objects and the police had to mace them several more times. (They got mace happy.)

Three police officers received injuries during the incidents when they were struck by bricks and bottles. One officer was also kicked.

(Well, here's what they didn't tell you. During the time when the "mob" was dispersed to College and University, I saw a freshman girl be maced by a vop at point-blank range. She was approximately 110 lbs. I didn't see that she was a police threat, only that she made the mistake of dropping her purse and trying to pick it up. She (an asthmatic) was left gasping for air in a parking lot by the police, but I helped her up and out of the way of the "surging mob." I was maced for doing so.

I was then herded into the residential district. All attempts to leave the area were unsuccessful until about 3:30, because the cops were everywhere. They threatened everyone, and made me go onto someone's porch and stay there. I didn't know whose porch it was. Anyway, I went to leave, and the police saw me and asked for ID. Well, I had just seen them club a kid who tried to walk on the sidewalk.

My viewpoint is that the riots are the fault of the students and police together. The police want to be macho men and hurt us, but the drunk students had no business smashing windows. The next weekend, the crowd which gathered on the Strip was peaceful, and showed what we can accomplish without the help of police. Had they not been there, not much would would've happened, I suspect.)

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