Everything was going smoothly until one of the people in the crowd allegedly punched one of the officers, |
He'd been hit three or four times. |
Here we have 40,000 people and if we had a day or two notice we could probably get everybody out if we had to evacuate the entire city, ... Every emergency plan presupposes one thing, that there will be infrastructure to work off of, a road to drive down, some way to get a generator going to get electricity. If your city is underwater, when you reach a disaster of that magnitude it simply overwhelms any plan. |
I heard four shots go off. |
One of the university officers had been assaulted. Somebody had punched him in the face. He was trying to arrest the person that had assaulted him. Another person came up behind that officer and was pulling on that officer trying to separate him from the guy he was trying to arrest, |
One of the university officers had been assaulted. Somebody had punched him in the face. He was trying to arrest the person that had assaulted. Another person came up behind that officer and was pulling on that officer trying to separate him from the guy he was trying to arrest. Our officer tried to get him to back off and go away. He wouldn't. The officer hit him with a Taser, |
Supplements are actually one of those items we would often get asked for [in student feedback surveys]. |
The Emergency Operations Center at the police department is simply not big enough to be used for a major emergency, so we're spending a bit of homeland security money for special lighting, a generator and communications equipment to set up an EOC in the auditorium, |
There were several of the students there that had been drinking. That's pretty clear. We could smell alcohol on the breath of several of them, |
We initially sent three officers and things were moving along pretty well, |
We will be trying to keep people alive, ... That's it, priority number one. |