Kent State Riots

Kent State Riots

As you may have heard, Kent State witnessed riots over the weekend.

Hundreds of party-goers were at "College Fest," a block party on East College Avenue in Kent, when police began firing rubber bullets into the crowds.

A small group of us were at work in the Kent State newsroom Saturday night and we noticed a large fire outside. The newsroom overlooks the site of the riots by about 100 yards, so we had a pretty good vantage for covering the event. We sent out a handful of reporters and photographers to cover the situation. Eventually, four large fires were ignited, some with flames a

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This account comes from a personal friend of mine...

If you read other news sources they make it seem like the students erupted in riots for no reason, but from what my friend says they fired rubber bullets in the crowd igniting the riots.


It seems in the days of social networking you can read tons of first hand accounts from twitter. A lot of the links are on the Kentnewsnet.com website.



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Any way you could possibly toss up some of those pictures you had mentioned?

Originally posted by lastmanstanding
Any way you could possibly toss up some of those pictures you had mentioned?

Since we were so close, we scooped everyone. No other outlet was even close. We've been footing calls this weekend from almost every major news outlet and bureau (CNN, MSN, Fox, AP, BBC). We own most of the media from the riots (photos, video) and the media circus has been hungry for images. We've had about 60 thousand hits a day on our Web site: www.kentnewsnet.com...

I have a feeling we'll get a subpoena, too.

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