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I'VE BEEN IN riots and this was not a riot," Salt Lake City Police Chief Rick
Dinse said at a news conference at midmorning Sunday. " I believe it was the
right amount of force at the right time."
Dinse said windows in several
buildings and at least one vehicle were damaged during the clash, which began
when individuals in a boisterous crowd in the thousands became unruly after the
Bud World beer garden attraction was closed after reaching capacity.
Dinse
estimated damage could reach "the low thousands," but both he and Mayor Rocky
Anderson objected to early reports that characterized the incident as a riot.
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"We want to
emphasize that this was a relatively minor disturbance," Anderson said. "
Frankly, I anticipated far worse than this and far earlier (in the Games)."
Dinse said between 180 and 200 helmeted and riot-gear clad officers
responded to the area near Main and 200 South Streets after receiving reports
that the crowd was getting out of hand. The gathering was declared an "unlawful
assembly" about midnight and officers began slowly pushing the crowd, many of
whom were chanting "USA, USA!", down Main Street to the south, Dinse said.
Rob Garcia, 18, of Salt Lake City told the Associated Press the crowd was
yelling at police, and officers forced people against cars.
"The police were
pushing people," he said. "The cops just jumped across and set up a barricade."
Two revelers fight in the street during a riot. Several shop windows were
broken, but no injuries were reported.
While many in the crowd obeyed orders
to disburse, some individuals began hurling glass beer bottles at the officers,
who responded by firing about 40 rounds of "impact devices" at the lower
extremities of members of the crowd, he said. The action quickly scattered the
crowd.
Eighteen adults and two juveniles were arrested during the clash, and
most were charged with public intoxication and failure to disburse, Dinse said.
Most of those arrested were locals, but at least one was a Canadian citizen, he
said. Police were reviewing videotape of the incident in hopes of identifying
crowd members who hurled the bottles at police.
The arrests were the first
mass police action since five women protesters were jailed on Feb. 8, shortly
before the Opening Ceremony.
Dinse said the only injuries reported were
bruises and welts sustained by members crowd members hit by the foam-tipped
bullets and officers hit by bottles.
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Normally,
drunken revelers wouldn't be roaming through the streets of Salt Lake City. The
state's strict Mormon heritage usually makes for quiet nights. But during the
Games, things have been considerably more active.
But in the wake of the
incident, Dinse said police would no longer tolerate public consumption of
alcohol, which officers had been widely ignoring in previous days. Anderson also
said Bud World, which had been open until midnight throughout the Games, would
close at 5 p.m. on Sunday. He said the decision to close early was made by
officials of Anheuser-Busch.
About $310 million has been devoted to Olympic
security, and nearly 15,000 security workers are at the games. But Sunday's
disturbance was handled by local police, according to a spokesman for the
Olympic Joint Information Center.
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