Cops and Ambulances Respond to Chaotic Scene at a New Hampshire College

Amaury · Oct 18, 2014

Source: Business Insider

Published: October 18, 2014

Police officers and ambulances were dispatched to the annual Pumpkin Festival near New Hampshire's Keene State College after several people were injured from bottles at a party with hundreds of people, according to the local fire department.

Video posted on social media shows a chaotic scene with students running and screaming as bottles were thrown in the air during the festival around 2:30 p.m. Cops responded with pepper spray and other non-deadly forms of "crowd control," MassLive reported. One student on social media said he'd been tear-gassed by a police officer.

“Over the past few days, a large number of out-of-town visitors have come to Keene for the Keene Pumpkin Festival," a spokeswoman for Keene State told The Boston Globe. "Subsequently, during the course of the evening on Friday, off-campus gatherings associated with the Keene Pumpkin Festival escalated at a number of locations around the city."

Police who arrive on the scene appear to be wearing riot gear, as this tweet shows:

Here are some more images of the scene:

The chaos on Saturday came after a rowdy night Friday when members of a crowd actually threw bottles at officers, the New Hampshire Union Leader reported.
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Fellangel · Oct 19, 2014

Man with all that alcohol floating around, it was bound to get crazy one way or another. Good thing no one wasn't killed or anything so far.

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