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A Brawl… at Princeton?

Roughly 10 to 20 people, including several University students, were involved in a “large fight” on Saturday evening at a dance hosted by the Caribbean Connection at the Carl A. Fields Center, Deputy Chief of Public Safety Charles Davall said in an e-mail to The Daily Princetonian.
The conflict escalated until Borough Police sprayed the crowd with pepper spray, Davall added.

Around 1:20 a.m. on Sunday, Public Safety officers received several calls from party attendees who said a fight had broken out in the dance venue.

One Public Safety officer had been assigned to security detail for the event because of its size and nature, Davall said, adding that three officers were on scene when the fight broke out because of an earlier confrontation around midnight at the same event.

At the time of the incident, around 200 people were present, and about 10 to 20 of them were “pushing, shoving and punching each other,” Davall added.

Though two officers tried to stop the violence, the large crowd pushing toward the fight prevented them from calming the situation and separating the combatants.

It soon became clear that the officers and combatants were both in “jeopardy of significant harm,” and other attendees were being hit as well, Davall added.

The crowd dispersed quickly, though, when a Borough Police officer patrolling the area arrived on the scene and sprayed pepper spray over the crowd. The police sprayed the crowd twice before the combatants stopped fighting, Davall said…

The Daily Princetonian

Margaret Soltan, December 8, 2009 5:26AM
Posted in: STUDENTS

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One Response to “A Brawl… at Princeton?”

  1. Dave Stone Says:

    Jasper Howard, the University of Connecticut football player, was stabbed to death in a fight that also broke out at a Caribbean student party.

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