Yale University students caught in a raid Saturday of a private dance party at a nightclub on Crown Street are upset over the way they were treated by police.[More]Why? If Chief Frank Limon thinks siccing SWAT on college kids is an appropriate response to an occupancy code violation, who are we to disagree and deem him full of...party poop?
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So, to protect the kids from being hurt if a panic should break out, they send in men with big guns...
ReplyDeleteLocal police here once used a tear-gas fog machine under similar circumstances at a party in an apartment. Seems partygoers were STANDING ON THE SIDEWALK WITH A CUP OF BEER. Who knows what kind of civil disturbance could result. People jumping out of windows to avoid asphyxiation was so much better.
Citizens who complained were told the chemical assault was within department policy.