Riot at Dead Prez concert in Olympia

[Red October]

http://www.theolympian.com/570/story/360206.html

[RevSouth]

Organic Revolution will know more about this concert, I bet.

[RedDawn]

Fuckin hilarious, I can't believe I didn't hear about this concert as I live in Seattle.

[midnight marauder]

Washington: Pictures from Dead Prez Riot

Friday, February 15 2008 @ 11:23 AM PST
Contributed by: Anonymous
Views: 515 A hip-hop concert at The Evergreen State College ended in a riot early Friday in which a Thurston County sheriff’s patrol car was overturned and looted. A campus police officer was dispatched around 1:30 a.m. following a report of a fight inside the College Recreation Center where the group Dead Prez was performing.


The female officer arrested a man inside the venue and placed him in the back of the patrol car. Some of the concertgoers were taunting and questioning the actions of the officer, said Trooper Brandy Kessler of the Washington State Patrol.
“They didn’t feel the arrest that was being made was fair,” she said.
The crowd continued to grow and became more aggressive.
“Some people blocked the police car that was trying to take the student away,” said Dan Hilden, a 20-year-old Evergreen student who attended the concert.
Concerned for her safety, the officer called for backup and the arrested man was eventually released. The officer took down his name and address so he will be summoned to court at a later time.
Thurston County Chief Criminal Deputy James Chamberlain said authorities made the right call in releasing the male because of the escalating unruly behavior of the crowd.
"It was a very volatile situation at one point, and I'm proud of the officers in how they responded," Chamberlain said. "They backed out of there to try and de-escalate the situation instead of making more arrests and possibly making it worse."
Six sheriff's deputies who arrived to assist the campus officer reported that several people in the crowd were throwing rocks, bottles and even a garbage can at the them, and others were grabbing at the deputies' guns.
They were, however, able to clear a path so the campus police officer could leave the scene in her car, Kessler said.
But deputies were unable to start their own car at the scene. Chamberlain said the car likely had mechanical problems. The deputy driving the car was able to shut off the electronic equipment in the car and take what items she could before leaving it, he said.
That’s when the problems started,” Kessler said. “The car was attacked.”
Some in the swelling crowd kicked the patrol car, broke its window, wrote graffiti on it with black marker and rolled the vehicle onto its roof, Kessler said. Two hundred people were at the scene at one point, she said.
Chamberlain said that three other sheriff's patrol cars and a campus police car were damaged in addition to the one that didn't start.
Damages to the wrecked patrol car is estimated at about $25,000, he said. Cumulative damage to all of the cars will likely be more that $30,000.
In addition, a laptop computer and radar gun were taken from the wrecked car, Kessler said. They have not been recovered, she said. No weapons were taken.
Riot police from the State Patrol and sheriff’s office arrived at the scene and the crowd quickly dispersed. Hilden said authorities used pepper spray to disperse the crowd. No other arrests were made.
Blood was found on the patrol car from people who apparently cut themselves on broken glass, Kessler said. It will be tested in an attempt to identify suspects, she said.
Deputies suffered minor injuries that didn’t required hospitalization or major treatment, Chamberlain said.
After the arrest, Kessler said, a member of the hip-hop group reportedly told the crowd, “They’re taking one of our people. Go take care of it.”
“It sounds like the band may have been encouraging them a little,” she said.
But some of the people at the concert said the band member only told the crowd to get the officer’s badge number and look after the man.
A student activities group on campus sponsored the concert, said Jason Wettstein, a college spokesman. He didn’t know the name of the person arrested or whether he was an Evergreen student.

Source: http://www.infoshop.org/inews/articl...80215112355585

[Organic Revolution]

Organic Revolution will know more about this concert, I bet.

Well unfortunately I wasnt able to make the concert, but friends of mine were there, and told me the situation was rather crazy. Apparently they arrested one of the kids who organized the show, and Dead Prez called out "they are taking one of our people" and the Evergreen radicals organized together and went out to fight the cops to get the kid back. there was something like 25,000 dollars worth of damage done, plus the expenses to bring out the Thurston county sheriffs (Whos Laptop and such were stolen when one car was flipped) and the SWAT team. Now there are doing fingerprinting and DNA checking to hem up one kid on all the charges. Wont hold up in court though. From what I have been told a lot of the anger was from how the Brianna Waters trial is going.

[Faux Real]

*applauds*

Only thing that isn't so great about the event is this:

Blood was found on the patrol car from people who apparently cut themselves on broken glass, Kessler said. It will be tested in an attempt to identify suspects, she said.

Anyone know if they were they performing new songs?

[Pirate Utopian]

Has stic.man or M1 said anything about the riot?

[Palmares]

From what I have been told a lot of the anger was from how the Brianna Waters trial is going.

Could you explain more on this?

[YSR]

Keep it wild out there, Evergreen!