Comments on That Riot at Evergreen

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!

wu tang!

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.