Déjà vu: students arrested at Fountain party
Sound familiar?
... Wesleyan University students are facing criminal charges after police broke up a series of large gatherings.September 9, 2002. See the story and video, from NBC30.
Middletown police called for backup from police in the neighboring communities of Cromwell and Portland as nearly 200 people gathered in the area of Fountain and Lawn avenues and Pine Street...
... Some students complained that police arrested several students without apparent cause or provocation. They also claimed some officers unnecessarily hit, shoved and tackled students. Police and the university said they were going to review the incidents...
3 comments:
"Party wasn't 'out of control' until after police arrived"
Does sound familiar...
And then we used that occurrence to stand up against police brutality and effect positive change, and we ensured that nothing like that would ever happen again.
That was my first week at Wesleyan! It was bad but was has happened recently was worse.
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