Red Sox Fan Killed by Police Projectile

[reprehensor]

Previously posted in LBN.

Red Sox Fan Killed by Police Projectile

BOSTON - A college student celebrating the Red Sox come-from-behind victory over the New York Yankees was killed after a police officer called in to control the rowdy crowd shot her in the eye with what was designed to be a non-lethal projectile.

Fifteen other people, including a police officer, suffered minor injuries in Boston's Kenmore Square neighborhood early Thursday, after thousands of baseball fans spilled onto the streets near Fenway Park to celebrate the Red Sox winning the American League pennant at Yankee Stadium.

Boston's mayor said he was considering banning alcohol sales in the city during the World Series (news - web sites) to avoid a repeat of the rowdiness.

Victoria Snelgrove, a 21-year-old journalism major at Emerson College, was hit by a projectile fired by an officer on crowd-control duty. Snelgrove, of East Bridgewater, died of a head injury at Brigham and Women's Hospital later in the day.

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p.s. You aren't supposed to aim the 'non-lethal' projectiles at people's heads. If this cop purposely shot the girl in the head, he should go to jail. Right fucking now.

[SoDesuKa]

1. Police State Tactics

Boston was a police state during the Democratic Convention, remember? Official Boston is calling this unjustifed killing collateral damage.

Much coverage about how devastated the cops are!

[Englander]

2. Here is Ms Snelgrove,& what (probably) killed her

http://www.pepperball.com/products/projectiles.asp

Says the website;
"Safe at contact range"
"Law Enforcement Across the Nation Use PepperBall to Save Lives"

[nostamj]

3. there was some more detail this morning

can't remember if it was CNN or MSNBC, but apparently the 'non-lethal' projectile was a pepper spray cartridge and one witness said that a bottle had been thrown but the police couldn't tell who threw it and fired into the general crowd.

now, am I nuts or shouldn't a GAS cartridge have been fired AT THE GROUND and not the HEADS of a crowd?

I don't condone a lot of drunks going berserk over a ball game but... firing gas shells at people's heads?

just wrong. (they interviewed her father too. very sad.)

[bkcc]

4. good thinking, idiots.

Boston's mayor said he was considering banning alcohol sales in the city during the World Series (news - web sites) to avoid a repeat of the rowdiness.

Want to see a real riot? Then go right ahead with that plan.
Cutting off the flow of booze in Boston?
Not a pretty picture.