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Originally posted by gremlinx8
I live in Ames and attend Iowa State, but I was asleep during the riots.
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No shit? me too.
Estimated 40000$ damage.
Students are screaming police brutality (many non-participants got pepper sprayed and tear-gassed)
VEISHEA has only been 'dry' for six years (due to someone getting murdered), and the students who rioted were at a party that the police broke up. they then moved to the streets.
Their logic - "They took away our right to celebrate on campus, they then took away our right to celebrate in campustown(the adjacent commercial district), and they now tried to take away out right to celebrate off campus , and we got pushed overboard." (Not to mention the alcohol they consumend...assholes.)
I think the police acted professionally and the rioting students deserved all the brutality they can get. The most serious injury reported was a broken foot caused by a falling lamp post.
I also think this will be the last year we'll have VEISHA. In the past ten years we've had one murder, one riot....tally it up. It’s only going to get worse.
This quote works nicely:
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"Whatever adjective you use [to describe the riots], put 'fucking' in front of it, because it wouldn't do it justice otherwise," said Matt Christiansen, senior in political science. "This is mass chaos."
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