Word: snelgroveã
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Dates: during 2004-2004
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...final game of American League Championship Series last month, Murphy said. An Emerson College student, Victoria Snelgrove, was killed by police as they attempted to quell a riot with pepper spray. At a recent meeting convened by city politicians and police to investigate the causes of Snelgrove??€™s death, police said that one of the major crowd-control problems that night was the number of inebriated students who spilled out of keg parties from off-campus houses. This tracking law would help police plan for similar concentrations of kegs in the future...
...poor use of the projectile weapons when he threatened to close liquor sales in all bars around Fenway Park during the World Series. To their credit, the mayor and the Boston Police administration later backed off of those threats and also promised a full investigation into any wrongdoing surrounding Snelgrove??€™s death...
This seems to me analogous to the situation surrounding Victoria Snelgrove??€™s horrible death. Instead of trying to be proactive and control the crowd by employing undercover officers and a universal police presence, the Boston Police sat back in riot gear and waited for things to get out of control before using a dangerous projectile gun by officers that may have been untrained to use one. In response, Menino blamed alcohol and tried to take the paternalistic response of cutting off drinking altogether...
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