Audio from the TESC Valentines Day Uprising - Nine One One calls.

021808 TESC Riot 911 ph call (Error in date is original to the file):

021508 TESC Riot Call to EVPD:

021508 TESC Riot 2nd EVPD Ph call:

Three people have been arrested in connection with the Feb. 14 Ded Prez riot at Evergreen. Two more arrest warrants have yet to be served. According to The Olympian Breaking News four out of five warrants were for TESC students, with the first arrest being at student housing this morning at 7:00.

These are images made of the CAPCOM (Capital Communications) calls to 9-11 dispatch, showing who called and from what cell, where that cell phone was at the time of the call, and what dispatch did in relation to the call over the course of the evening. Enjoy!

Hat tip to AM:

Text from YouTube: "It's Bigger than Hip Hop: The Truth Behind the Evergreen Uprising," narrates the sequence of events that led up to the violent uprising that occurred after a Hip Hop show featuring Dead Prez and others on Valentine's Day 2008, and contains footage of the performance, the protest, and the uprising, as well as commentary from exclusive interviews and statements from community forums that followed later in the week. Contact Julie C for official press release and video script.

Someone is going fishing. Via email:

It has come to my attention that a citizen has filed a public records request with the Evergreen State College to collect all material and communications concerning the events that occurred the evening of Feb. 14th (The Dead Prez Concert).  Therefore, Academic Dean Ken Tabutt is requiring that all staff disclose "investigative files; email between staff members; email from and to staff members; all communications with outside agencies, etc." that are relevant.

In light of the high level of publicity a particular professor has received due to some of his public comments and the information another has revealed following interviews with anonymous sources, this measure has been taken with definite targets in mind.  This appears to be the first of possibly many attempts to utilize coercion in order to produce information which could ultimately prove incriminating for parties involved. This breach of privacy facilitated by the Evergreen administration, which has repeatedly lied and distorted the events of the evening to remain in compliance with law enforcement, should not be taken lightly.

Let's be there to support staff who refuse to comply on this matter and ensure that the administration knows that people in this community will not idly stand by while our rights of privacy and speech are usurped.

It will be interesting to see what they come up with. The Seattle Times did a similar request to the University of Washington earlier this year regarding the head football coach. A lot of interesting, if not important, stuff came up. 

Given a series of comments on the blog in recent days suggesting that use of force was justified by law enforcement officers arriving at the Dead Prez show, I have to ask again: what are the policies of local law enforcement with regard to crowd control? I've looked at two examples (LA and Oakland) so far, and if those policies are anything like local policies, the behavior of the local officers was not by the book in several important respects. Two examples that stand out are: (1) the requirement to give an order to disperse, and (2) the indiscriminate use of pepper spray without the intent to arrest. Can anyone help us out?

From the Geoduck Student Union website:

At Wednesday's Geoduck Student Union meeting, students voiced concern about the lack of information available to the public about the Valentine's Day riot. They told the Union that it is difficult to talk about solutions when the facts are still unclear. Following yesterday's forum, a video of the riot was shown to us, and we feel that it is our responsibility to make it available to our fellow students. The administration already has this video, the police already have this video, and the student body must have this video. This is a clip from longer video footage. Our anonymous sources have given us permission to circulate it. We are circulating it because we want to promote positive dialogue on campus, because we need to heal our community, and if we are going to heal our community everyone needs to know how an act of solidarity turned into an act of violence.

Part II

I was at the dead prez show Thursday night and have been a fan of rap/hip hop since the mid 80s.

I arrived at Thursday night's show around 10:00PM. Through the night I saw nothing happen at the concert that was out of the ordinary. I didn't see any of the scuffles that are mentioned in the accounts below. I left at 12:40AM and as I was exiting the CRC I saw a female officer standing and talking with a white man who was seated on the ground. At that moment I wondered what was going on, but I couldn't imagine what would happen later, and was quite surprised to hear the unfortunate news on NPR Friday morning.

As I followed the coverage and heard rumor pile on rumor, and watched as various conversations grew that were built on speculations and one-sided accounts, I became more determined to find out what actually happened. Over the weekend I began talking with as many people as I could to find out what happened and how it happened.

Through this process, I was able to get three written statements from people who watched the events unfold. Each person has given me permission to share their eyewitness account, but none of them has given me permission to identify the writer. I gathered the statements independently from each person and trust that they have written the truth as they saw it. Below you will find the three statements. I think it is very important that these eyewitness accounts be taken into consideration in all further discussions of Thursday night's incident.

Tony Zaragoza