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OLYMPIA, Wash. -- A concert at The Evergreen State College ended in a disturbance in which a Thurston County sheriff's patrol car was overturned and looted.
Washington State Patrol Trooper Brandy Kessler said officers were pelted by rocks early Friday but there were no serious injuries.
She says it began about 1:30 a.m. when a fight broke out at the 'Dead Prez' concert and a campus police officer tried to arrest a concertgoer for misdemeanor assault.
Kessler said a crowd of about 200 surrounded the officer's car, demanding that the man be let go, so the officer called for backup.
"Some people blocked the police car that was trying to take the student away," said Dan Hilden, a 20-year-old Evergreen student who attended the concert.
gives one viewpoint, the Seattle Times
AP When a deputy's car wouldn't start, the crowd overturned it and broke out the windows.
Just by leaving the word "disabled" out it gives you a little different outlook on the event doesn't it?
A deputy's car was disabled and when it wouldn't start, the crowd overturned it, broke out the windows and wrote graffiti on it.
A campus police officer responded at about 1:30 a.m. after a report of a fight inside the College Recreation Center, where the hip-hop group Dead Prez was performing, Kessler said. The officer arrested a man for investigation of misdemeanor assault.
Sheriff's deputies responded and removed the campus officer and her car and released the man, since they knew his identity and he could be summoned later to court.
Kessler said the deputy's laptop computer and a radar gun were stolen. No weapons were lost.
Source | komotv.com
Samples of saliva and blood from people who cut themselves on the overturned car were being tested for DNA evidence that may help identify those responsible, Kessler said.
Originally posted by greeneyedleo
I'm not sure what the breaking news is.
Seems like some people need to grow up and learn civility and order.
Originally posted by goosdawg
Maybe the officer should have first called for back-up and then both parties to the altercation could have been safely removed.
Originally posted by goosdawg
Edit to add: Aside to verylowfrequency:
IMHO, I think greeneyedleo, when she posted the statement; "Seems like some people need to grow up and learn civility and order," was referencing the "brave" thugs who ganged up on a lone female campus police officer, not you, the OP.
by greeneyedleo "I'm not sure what the breaking news is."
by greeneyedleo "I'm not sure what the breaking news is."
I take that is a slap in the face - so I responded.