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| Pete K |
Red Sox Fan Killed by Police Projectile
By GREG SUKIENNIK
BOSTON (AP) - A college student celebrating the Red Sox come-from-behind victory over the New York Yankees was killed after a police officer called in to control the rowdy crowd shot her in the eye with what was designed to be a non-lethal projectile.
Fifteen other people, including a police officer, suffered minor injuries in Boston's Kenmore Square neighborhood early Thursday, after thousands of baseball fans spilled onto the streets near Fenway Park to celebrate the Red Sox winning the American League pennant at Yankee Stadium.
Boston's mayor said he was considering banning alcohol sales in the city during the World Series to avoid a repeat of the rowdiness.
Victoria Snelgrove, a 21-year-old journalism major at Emerson College, was hit by a projectile fired by an officer on crowd-control duty. Snelgrove, of East Bridgewater, died of a head injury at Brigham and Women's Hospital later in the day.
Police Commissioner Kathleen O'Toole said officers were using projectiles ``designed to break upon impact, dousing the target with (pepper-like) spray.''
``While I firmly and emphatically accept responsibilities for any errors,'' O'Toole said at a news conference Thursday, ``I also condemn in the harshest words possible the actions of the punks (Wednesday) night who turned our city's victory into an opportunity for violence and mindless destruction.''
O'Toole and Mayor Thomas Menino pledged to fully investigate. Menino said he will seek cooperation from city colleges, bars in the Fenway Park neighborhood and the Boston Red Sox to help prevent future disturbances. He said he would press colleges to expel students found guilty of criminal conduct in the melee.
Rick Snelgrove expressed outrage and said his daughter did nothing wrong. Standing outside the family home, he held up a photograph of his smiling daughter.
``What happened to her should not happen to any American citizen going to any type of game, no matter what,'' he said. ``She loved the Red Sox. She went in to celebrate with friends. She was a bystander. She was out of the way, but she still got shot. Awful things happen to good people. My daughter was an exceptional person.''
Mayor Thomas M. Menino said he was considering prohibiting liquor sales and asking bar and restaurant operators to ban live television coverage during games to curb the rowdiness. ``Since people won't accept responsibility, I, as mayor, will take it into my own hands,'' Menino said Thursday.
Menino planned to meet with bar and nightclub owners Friday. He said he was considering invoking a state law, never before used in Boston, that would allow him to ban the sale or distribution of alcohol ``in cases of riot or great public excitement.''
Early Thursday, several small fires were set and numerous fights broke out. Boston police reported eight arrests, mostly for disorderly conduct, though one arrest was for assault and battery on a police officer.
City officials had announced there would be a heavy police presence in Kenmore Square for the history-making victory by the Red Sox, who came back from 3-0 deficit to advance to the World Series.
The city had been caught understaffed when riots broke out after the New England Patriots' Super Bowl win Feb. 1, when one person was killed and another critically injured when a vehicle plowed into a crowd of revelers.
Elsewhere Thursday, 29 people were arrested at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst after revelers threw beer cans and flaming toilet paper at police. And at the university's Dartmouth campus, about 2,000 people had to be dispersed by police using stun grenades.
In New Hampshire, police made about 15 disorderly conduct arrests as crowds swarmed the campus of Plymouth State University and surrounding neighborhoods.
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| tranceDJ |
That is tragic, people definetly get rowdy when their team wins or whatever and I understand that the police are trying to do their job but it's just awful when some innocent bystander dies because of it.
It'll be interesting to see a ban on alcohol though in Boston. |
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| born2trance |
thats why i f*ckin hate b*tch ass cops!!!!!
F*CK THE POLEEF!!!! |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
People...
The United States is waging war on many fronts. If you think that the Government is imposing its authority only on the people of Iraq, you're definitely wrong. The United States is waging a war against its citizens as well, it would seem. Slowly, we are losing our rights as individuals and just becoming part of the system. This is but a small case in the scheme of things, but nevertheless, they are stripping away everything from us that America was founded upon. There is no America anymore - all that remains is the United States. America was just a dream, and idea - sort of like God, but just a little more realistic.
We are better-off without policemen to control us. |
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| AwakenedAddict |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
People...
The United States is waging war on many fronts. If you think that the Government is imposing its authority only on the people of Iraq, you're definitely wrong. The United States is waging a war against its citizens as well, it would seem. Slowly, we are losing our rights as individuals and just becoming part of the system. This is but a small case in the scheme of things, but nevertheless, they are stripping away everything from us that America was founded upon. There is no America anymore - all that remains is the United States. America was just a dream, and idea - sort of like God, but just a little more realistic.
We are better-off without policemen to control us. |
You have got to be kidding.... |
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| Rodrico |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
People...
The United States is waging war on many fronts. If you think that the Government is imposing its authority only on the people of Iraq, you're definitely wrong. The United States is waging a war against its citizens as well, it would seem. Slowly, we are losing our rights as individuals and just becoming part of the system. This is but a small case in the scheme of things, but nevertheless, they are stripping away everything from us that America was founded upon. There is no America anymore - all that remains is the United States. America was just a dream, and idea - sort of like God, but just a little more realistic.
We are better-off without policemen to control us. |
If you want to live in a world of chaos, I suggest moving to Haiti. |
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| Nite-Mer |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
People...
The United States is waging war on many fronts. If you think that the Government is imposing its authority only on the people of Iraq, you're definitely wrong. The United States is waging a war against its citizens as well, it would seem. Slowly, we are losing our rights as individuals and just becoming part of the system. This is but a small case in the scheme of things, but nevertheless, they are stripping away everything from us that America was founded upon. There is no America anymore - all that remains is the United States. America was just a dream, and idea - sort of like God, but just a little more realistic.
We are better-off without policemen to control us. |
I completely disagree and it sucks that an accident of that nature happened, but if a bunch of dumb ass, rowdy fans didn't start rioting there wouldn't have been a situation. Win or lose, Boston fans were going to get stupid rowdy. I went to the #1 party school in the nation, the University of Colorado, and we had a bunch of dumbasses riot, a few times. I never participated and I think it's asinine. However, that's a very unfair price to pay for it. I wish people wouldn't be idiots and we wouldn't have these situations. |
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| Boomer187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
People...
The United States is waging war on many fronts. If you think that the Government is imposing its authority only on the people of Iraq, you're definitely wrong. The United States is waging a war against its citizens as well, it would seem. Slowly, we are losing our rights as individuals and just becoming part of the system. This is but a small case in the scheme of things, but nevertheless, they are stripping away everything from us that America was founded upon. There is no America anymore - all that remains is the United States. America was just a dream, and idea - sort of like God, but just a little more realistic.
We are better-off without policemen to control us. |
exactly. We should all have the right to crowd into the streets drunk as hell and start fires and break windows and flip cars. Just as long as it is not our property that is set ablaze, or our windows that are broken, or our car that is flipped. Then we need someone to punish those hoodlums.
A lot of testing goes into those non-lethal weapons but there is always a chance of funking up. Like shooting in the throat and eyes. Its tragic, buts also a hard call for police. You are surrounded by thousands of drunks that carry the same attitude as some people here have, and they need to contorl them so they don't create destruction like what has happened in many other cities. |
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| UWM |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nite-Mer
I went to the #1 party school in the nation, the University of Colorado |
That is a highly debatable fact. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| :stongue: Lesee who else replies to it... |
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| Boomer187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
:stongue: Lesee who else replies to it... |
lol, I was thinking the samething.
n00b. :wtf: |
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| TranceFantasy2k |
sorry to say but as much as i do hate cops for certain things, we do need them.
Imagine if there weren't any cops to break up that riot. People's cars would be destroyed along with shops and things in the city. Not to mention many people would get hurt and hurt themselves and people could die from it. Therefore the cops are sent in to break it up, and someone tragically dies. Nobody is really at falut because the cops were using force to break it up so nobody would get hurt.
If you ask me i think the whole rioting thing is just plain stupid. The red sox win a baseball game, and people go around acting like savages, destroying and ransacking the town? and then people ask why we need cops in america and say that they hate them:rolleyes: |
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