E.L. ordinance spells out prosecutable acts in riots

Probably smart to get everything set now since the idiots will start burning stuff up during our NCAA run…

While I agree with “Probably smart to get everything set”, I would bet almost everything I have that there will no “burning stuff up during our NCAA run” this year. These things happen in 3 year cycles minimum, and the STUDENT to idiot backlash was so strong last Spring that I see little chance of a repeat so early.

I think the Man needs to chill. He is the one who causes the riots, not the students just having fun. I recommend Chilean wine from Tom’s party store – ask for rich – he will steer you…

There’s no question that the poor management and lack of intelligent staff at the ELPD tend to instigate most of the unrest at the initially peaceful gatherings. ELPD: Take a hint, and, take a hike.

100% agree.

I wouldn’t say the ELPD are not intelligent, just not capable. ELPD is ready for speeders, DUIs and MIPs. Not riots or serious crimes.

The best is when they bring out the calvary cops – who is dumb enough to ride a horse into a riot area?

The ELPD’s use of ballistic, incendiary devices clearly exacerbated the Cedarfest Party, as the ELPD’s video tape clearly demonstrates. After the ELPD cleared the streets, they continued to fire bombs onto the students’ properties. The ELPD have one of the best funded, best equipped, and best prepared riot police forces in the nation. Six hours BEFORE the ELPD allowed Cedarfest to get out of control, they positioned a videographer on the roof of the apartments in order to help prosecute inevitable student party animals. This is all a part of the master plan to bulldoze the area, to make way for the publicly funded EAST VILLAGE PROJECT. The ELPD decides when a party has become a riot, so if you are standing there doing nothing, they might prosecute you—as they have done in the past. There is nothing like adding a felony to your resume, in this job market.

HANS LARSEN, IV
(THE YOUNGER)

oh ffs, stop blaming ELPD and MSUPD. They stopped a lot of drunk assholes from destroying private property. How would you feel if you woke up next morning and saw your $40,000 car on its roof or worse burned down? Or see your windows of your apt destroyed and then see a $200 bill from your apt management? What would you do? I am for one, respect the police action in stopping this riot. And please don’t start talking about fun, it’s fun for a first hour or so, but then some drunk d__k starts throwing rocks at cars and everyone will pick because they think its “cool”. Stop defending those drunk moron students who started burning stuff. No matter what you do, so much crowd in one area will eventually lead to disaster because of 1 or 2 morons who will start burning things down. Hat down for ELPD by protecting private property. A lot of you immature people don’t understand it right now, but you will when you grow up.

Actually, half of the Cedarfest crowd of 4,000 weren’t even MSU students. The 2,000 MSU students who were there comprise less than 5 percent of the student population. I hope they don’t get kicked out of school. …they bring down the grading curve for the rest of us!

“The ELPD decides when a party has become a riot, so if you are standing there doing nothing, they might prosecute you—as they have done in the past.”

So what you are saying is that a crowd full of drunk morons is really just like a giant pinata game for the police? (except instead of hitting the pinata they just arrest some poor, innocent student that is minding their own business)

As someone who got prosecuted at the 2008 riots, I’m glad to see that something is being done about exactly what constitutes illegal behavior. If I had known last April that simply being present would get me 20 days in jail and a year suspension from MSU, I definitely would not have gone.