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"Riot" in East Lansing

Where's Lansing? Michigan? That's like 2000 miles away, I doubt anyone will throw any bricks through my windows or anything.
 
Never understood that....

"Hey! My team, which I am loosely affiliated with at best, won! Let's vandalize and burn stuff!"
 
Originally posted by: Kilrsat
Originally posted by: Queasy
Never understood that....

"Hey! My team, which I am loosely affiliated with at best, won! Let's vandalize and burn stuff!"
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MSU lost....
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Which just makes the situation even more idiotic....
 
It wasn't a riot. Some 1500 people were on their way home from the bars/apts/wherever they were watching the game...cheering on the team that did a whole lot better than anyone expected them to. The police started launching tear gas into the crowds about 15 minutes after the game got over. Check out www.lsj.com or www.statenews.com for articles there. There was NO violence, NO looting, etc. Its the media and the nazi East Lansing police that labeled it a "riot". If the city of East Lansing had their way, they'd turn the whole place into a marshal state.
 
Where are the pics of the riot? Someone posted them on some forum (Genmay maybe). A kid picked up a tear gas canister and it burned his hand leaving blisters. I learned something from that...
Found @ GenMay.com
 
All it is, is the cops getting out of control, coming out way too early to patrol *nothing*, then launching tear gas and brining in the riot police. I lived in Cedar Village a couple years ago for the last supposed riot. Cops were out in FULL FORCE 4 hours before the game just walking the streets on horseback in the very small area (when no one was even out, everyone just doing their day to day thing). It was total overuse of force; one person does something stupid in a dense area and tear gas is launched and cops start chasing and arresting.

They've been doing it wrong up here for the last couple years. They have created the most recent supposed riots.
 
I live near east lansing and an MSU student.

To call what happened on Saturday a riot is ridiculous. From what I've heard, nothing but public drunkenness and gathering was going on. Well, until cops decided to shoot tear gas indiscriminantly at people.

Obviously, east lansing cops were trying to avoid a riot breaking out that would be like the one that happened in 1999. They went over the line in my opinion, trying to prevent something that probably never would have happened.

Also, there were 40 some arrests. Less than half were students or residents of the university. Most of the trouble makers during these "riots" come from elsewhere with the idea that they won't have to suffer the consequences of their recklessness.
 
That's how it is with Raiders fans. If the team wins, they riot. If the team loses, they riot. If their team goes to the Superbowl they're going to riot regardless of what happens.
 
Originally posted by: chuckywang
What about in '99 when Duke beat MSU?
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That was a true, out of control riot and people were punished. Nothing like that has happened since.
 
Originally posted by: Queasy
Never understood that....

"Hey! My team, which I am loosely affiliated with at best, won! Let's vandalize and burn stuff!"
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I think it has something more to do with impaired inhibition mixed with mob mentality. People begin to riot when they feel they can get away with it. And, well, drunk people think they can get away with just about anything 🙂
 
You guys have to understand that ever since the initial riots a few years ago in East Lansing, it has become sort of a "tradition" with MSU students in one section of town. It's like the people always talk about how crazy the initial riots were, and nobody experienced it, so after the games people kinda horde in this one section hoping to see something. Add in plenty of alcohol, and plenty of police on hand (with riot gear ready) and there is inevitably going to be some incidents that occur.

I was there 2 years ago for a mini version of the annual riots. My buddy lives in an apartment right at the site of where it all goes down, so we basically got everyone we knew there and had a keg and whatnot. There's nothing quite like drinking a nice cold beer and sitting on the back porch while watching 8-10 cops in full riot gear start trying to settle down the crowd. Fortunately they didn't gas everybody that time, but according to my friend his apartment still faintly reeks of tear gas from the last game.

Basically, people just do it because they want to be a part of the hoopla. You have to remember that MSU is a pretty big party school, and the average student that goes there would be thoroughly entertained by watching their fellow students get tear gassed. I'm assuming 99% of you guys would be watching/rubbernecking in awe seeing 10 cops in full riot gear parading down your street.
 
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