Université : émeute à Macomb (Illinois) – 30 avril 2011

Riots end annual block party

connecttristates.com

1 05 2011

MACOMB, ILL. — An annual block party near the Western Illinois University campus turned violent Saturday afternoon. Hundreds of people attended the Wheeler Street Block Party Saturday, spending much of the day consuming alcohol. Later in the afternoon, a clash with police resulted in numerous tickets and arrests.

There were reports that tear gas and mace were also used to get the crowds under control. You can see several of those instances in this amateur video shot here. (Warning: not censored.)

The McDonough County Voice reports that at one point, police were pelted with glass bottles and other objects as they tried to break up the party, where hundreds of students were standing outside homes on Wheeler Street. Police were present at the block party throughout the day.

It wasn’t until later in the afternoon that calls for medical help to treat high blood-alcohol levels began coming in.

Crowds began throwing glass bottles while vandalizing areas on campus, and at that point, the Illinois Law Enforcement Alarm System Mobile Field Force was called in to break up the crowd. The force is made up of officers from around the state who help with crowd control. Read more …

Informations

Western Illinois University (WIU) is a public university founded in 1899 as Western Illinois State Normal School. Like many similar institutions of the time, Western Illinois State Normal School focused on teacher training for its relatively small body of students. As the normal school grew, it became Western Illinois State Teachers College. Today, Western Illinois University is composed of two campuses that provide a wide range of academic programs. The main campus is located in Macomb, Illinois, while Western Illinois University – Quad Cities is in Moline, Illinois.^[2]