Kent State University - Did the cops overreact?

taku · Kickflip Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 2868 City: Central FL

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Do you think the cops overreacted? This school has a lot of history with law vs the students.. I wonder if this will get national attention..

KENT -- Police used tear gas and rubber bullets on Saturday night to break up a crowd of at least 400 college students who built a towering fire with couches on a city street just off the Kent State University campus.

Police had anticipated problems Saturday and beefed up patrols for the school's fifth annual College Fest, a street party on College Avenue to celebrate the near-end of the school year.

Nationally, Kent State is probably best known for the May 4, 1970, anti-war (vietnam) rally that turned deadly when Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on a crowd of students, killing four and injuring nine others. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young memorialized the confrontation in the song "Ohio."

Some Kent State students said Saturday night that they believed police overreacted.

"I expected the cops to be walking around making sure no one got hurt," said Ross Eisenberg, a freshman majoring in marketing. "I never thought they'd be shooting tear gas."

greg van wagnen · Posted: Apr 28, 2009 2:39 pm Post subject:

haha ya I knew some people that were arrested there. I have been to that party the past three years but wasn't able to make it this year, I guess that worked out for me. But they had a huge ass fire in the middle of the street, and that street is just an average little back street. I guess they probably over reacted but I also know that all the ones I have been to are ridiculous and I heard this one blew the others away. I guess I should have been there