Media That Riot at Evergreen
posted by on February 28 at 16:55 PM
A group called Hip Hop Congress has released a mini-documentary to clear up what the video’s director describes as “misconceptions and misinformation about what happened” during a riot on Valentine’s Day at the Evergreen State College. For reasons not fully explained in some mainstream media reports, students leaving a Hip Hop show allegedly pelted police with rocks and flipped a squad car after a man was arrested.
The video claims Olympia Police Department officers who arrived as backup turned on the crowd with pepper spray, escalating the protest over the “questionable arrest of one black male” into a full-scale fracas. In a news release about the incident, Julie Chang Schulman, Northwest Regional Director for Hip Hop Congress, says, “We were concerned with what seemed to be the omission of the Olympia Police Department’s role in this incident.”
Some audio NSFW.
UPDATE: Larry Mizell, Jr. has more over on Line Out.
The video is nice, but it's a bit hyperbolic to consider the incident either a riot or and uprising.
You can read tons more about this on Line Out.
How long 'til Packratt complains about the police?
3... 2... 1...
Oh, come on, it's not like the cops arrest black males for obstruction 8 to 10 times more often than white males.
(shuffles papers ... notices the prior post earlier today)
Um, isn't it?
Johnnie @ 1, seriously? What do you call 200 people throwing rocks and flipping a police car?
Resistance at best, violent confrontation mayhaps, a mob scene - alright. But a riot? No way. An uprising? Puhleez. Besides the car, what property was destroyed? Besides those peppersprayed, who was injured? Besides the balance of power for a few hours, what was changed?
That said, I've been in protests, riots (mostly police riots), various forms of resistance a lot of times. They're great and it's good to see kids fighting back. But let's not diminish the meaning of words by throwing them around when they're not fit. Next thing you know, N30 '99 will be considered a revolution.
do the cops lack cell phones?
why do a giant show of force when the place was vacant?
pigs are funny, always so funny
AND YOU BURN THE FUCKING COP CAR AT THAT POINT - INCL. TONS OF EXTRA STUFF
stupid evergreen yuppies
And the next night you double down ( see Stonewall riots as to how the fags do it)
the riot no body will remember for more that a day
beer parties in the spring get more action at UW or WSU
Hip Hop Congress - maybe a bit too intellectual
Sexual Congress? Where is the video?
The cops need Blackhawk Copters in Thurston County - three or four for such moments.
Better video and faster.
wu tang!
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omg, could these hip hop congress people be any more self-important? uprising? i spit milk out my nose when that popped onto the screen, and i wasn't even drinking milk! or anything!
So pelting the cops with rocks and flipping over a squad car isn't "escalating," but the cops responding with pepper spray is?
Uprising? Har har.
@11,
The pepper spray came out before the riot started.
Having watched the vid, it becomes obvious the MSM coverage is highly distorted, and that while most of the police present at the beginning seemed to be reasonable, at least the ones charging into the crowd to pepperspray might have gone off mission.
But coming back after everyone had left to pose for pics while noone was around as if they were in the middle of a riot with an overturned cop car is highly questionable.
Wow, violence after a hip hop event? I just don't believe it. I would have expected something like this to happen at Wintergrass.
If you get arrested there, do they hand down actual sentences, or do they allow you to explore your own means of incarceration in a more interdisciplinary way?
#16, It's a metaphorical incarceration.
"Hip Hop Congress?" "Uprising?" "Our own investigation?" "Universal restorative justice and proactive restitution" Why don't you just read your Mission Statement? I'm not sure you could pack more pretentiousness into nine and half minutes.
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