A pair of Bates College students were among several arrested on campus near the football field early Wednesday morning.
Several Bates College students were arrested after a fracas on campus early Wednesday morning.
Lewiston police officer Robert Ullrich is loaded onto a stretcher with a possible broken leg suffered during an altercation with Bates College students early Wednesday morning following a fracas on the Lewiston campus.
LEWISTON — A police officer and an unknown number of Bates College students were injured early Wednesday morning after a party at a freshman dorm on North Bardwell Street got out of hand, according to officials and witnesses at the scene.
Several Bates College students were arrested after a fracas on campus early Wednesday morning.
A Bates College student receives medical attention prior to being taken to jail following a fracas at the campus early Wednesday morning.
Several Bates College students were arrested after a fracas on the campus early Wednesday morning.
Several Bates College students were arrested after a fracas on campus early Wednesday morning.
Students — both men and women — were arrested after police were called to break up a crowd of 200 unruly students gathered outside Smith Hall dormitory after midnight.
Police officers from Lewiston, Auburn, Lisbon and Sabattus, and the Androscoggin County Sheriff's Department and Maine State Police were called to help disperse the crowd.
Lewiston police Sgt. Rob Ullrich suffered a leg injury and was taken by ambulance to a hospital. According to WMTW, his leg was broken in two places.
A number of students, bruised and bloodied, were also being loaded into ambulances. Others roaming the street were shirtless and barefoot.
At 12:15 a.m., police walked about 50 students away from Smith Hall toward the quad, where they stood in front of Parker Hall shouting insults at police.
Meanwhile, police cruisers and vans were taking an unknown number of students to the Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn.
Students said the gathering began as seniors celebrating the end of the year moved to Smith Hall, the freshman dorm that is home to about 180 students.
Lewiston Police told WMTW that an ambulance was called for a girl who needed assistance. They reported that police said students blocked the ambulance from assisting the girl, and that once college security broke through the crowd, the partiers became unruly.
According to sophomore Romina Istratii, ambulances came before the police and took several students away. Istratii said once police arrived, they were abusive to students, pulling hair and pepper spraying even nonviolent bystanders.
"It was barbaric," she said. Istratii said police yelled at her and threatened to arrest her when she asked what was happening, and said they arrested a female student while refusing to read her her rights.
WMTW reports that nine were arrested on charges of failure to disperse and disorderly conduct.
North Bardwell Street runs between the college football field and Lake Andrews on the campus.
Bates College commencement is set to take place Sunday.
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there is a fine line between
there is a fine line between "a celebration" and "disorderly conduct" when alcohol is involved. even the most enlightened students of life can easily cross this line. people were already getting hurt at this "celebration". what would have happened if there was a death? you would have all been crying about how everyone else should have stopped it from happening, and condemned LPD and everyone else. grow up. we all pay the price to dance with the piper.
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...no body was hurt before the police showed up. People may have been too drunk, sure, if that's what you mean by people getting hurt, but the worst that happened was their arm hurt after an IV in the hospital to recover. This wasn't an unruly crowd, this wasn't a "fracas," I was there, sober. It was a group of happy, drunk college students. Nobody was violent, there was no damage to the dorms worse than beer cans on the lawn. In all my time here at Bates, I haven't heard of anyone dying at a Bates party. This is a small school, everyone would know. The environment at Bates last night was not hostile, it was not a scenario that a fight would ever come out of without violent outside stimulus.
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i was only lighting matches, its not like the house burnt down. this time. its called adults who can see unsafe behavior and stop it before anyone dies.
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That analogy doesn't work. I'd say the situation is more analagous to having an affair, and then the press gets involved and then someone has to resign from a position. Then people talk about morals, and how irresponsible it was for someone to cheat, and that the person got what he/she deserved. Lighting a match will automatically produce fire. Having a party does not automatically mean the end product is a result of the behavior confined to the party.
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lightening a match doesn't automatically burn down a house, neither does just having a drinking party. the point is that both are risky behaviors that can get out of control quickly. the match lighter may not see that the lit match went into a pile of flamables because he knows what he's doing , and a party goer may not notice people getting hurt because he knows what he's doing. someone tries to stop match guy from burning down the house because they can see the danger. police try to break up a large party because they can see the danger. it all comes down to having the experience to see the danger in a situation, and knowing when to stop. the drunk kids didn't know that they were in danger, and fought those who did, making it all the worse.
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Interesting analogy. Maybe the police ought to spend more time trying to catch Match Guy (with the plethora of apartments and mills that mysteriously burn in the twin cities all the time) and less time watching "COPS" and trying out all of their sweet tackle moves on the wimpiest people in the entire city of Lewiston. Hey officer! Was it just like high school again? Did you chase down some nerds and deal on them?
I grew up near Frye st. You don't need cops to break up batesies. Loud noises and sudden movements will do the trick.
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When a person has a party, the risky behavior you speak of doesn't mean the cops have to be there. If police were responsible for preventing things from getting out of hand, then I could call up the police on my neighbors everyday. And they probably wouldn't like that--the police or my neighbors. Risky behavior that is more dangerous includes running a red light or a stop sign and yet these acts go unnoticed and no one cares. The police cannot see the danger involved at this party. That may be what they tell themselves but in reality, they simply see something can keep them occupied and allow them to become physical. If it were Newark, NJ, the cops would say "let them have fun."
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I didn't say it will burn down a house--I said it will produce fire, which automatically must pose a risk for a fire. A party does not automatically pose a risk so great the police must come. The analogy still does not work.
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Nice post, but it doesn't negate the fact that these 200 drunks last night were lacking in their comprehension of the definition of law and order.
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Most of the people out of doors came out of the dorms to watch... there was only a small handful of drunks.
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When I worked in L/A a number of years ago I lived a half-block from the Frey Street residence halls and union. Every Friday/Saturday night (and occasionally during the week) it was the same old crap - kids who couldn't or wouldn't hold their booze - yelling, bellowing, screaming, mating calls, cars screeching - you name it. We would have neighbohood meetings with Bates Administration, which was about as useless as tits on a boar-hog.
The only thing I didn't hear was gun shots - otherwise it was like being back working the low rent districts south of Chicago. Except those folks usually obeyed the cops and didn't feel an inflated sense of entitlement..
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First, why would you purposely live near a college? Second, its Frye street. Third, I do apologize for some undoubtedly obnoxious behavior, but Bates students are aggressively academic and have a tremendous work ethic. This however does lead to reciprocal behavior on the play hard spectrum of things that does not always have positive results. Comparing the environment to low rent districts of South of Chicago does not make sense at all... although yes, there does tend to be a sense of entitlement, but that comes with the age and is not unique to Bates students.
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Why not live in the area? Oh yeah, so we don't have to be startled awake in the middle of the night with drunk kids walking up and down the street yelling and carrying on like no one else in the world exist. They have no regard for anyone but themselves in that moment. Just like the crowd that was out the end of last week. One "happy" individual decided to use my new car as a playground slide and climb up over the hood and after denting the roof slide down the back of the trunk scratching it. ( That may have been a run on sentence, but then again I only went to a two year college.) Of course, that is only the last incident. Not counting the last 10 years when some other "happy" graduating student decided my Maine Registration plate was a good memory to carry home. Or, how about the time a "happy someone" "playing hard" decided my house was his and tried to crash here. Also mentioning the red and blue drinking cups they litter as they go from one party house to another. Talk about being terrorized in your neighborhood. I am glad when they leave for the summer. This behavior may not be unique to Bates students, but its a sad commentary when this behavior is accepted as part of "college life". What happened to "if it doesn't belong to you, don't touch it"!
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Exactly, why would you choose to live there. That behavior is unacceptable no doubt, but there is nothing to do to change those few that make these stupid decisions. Students lessons are not exclusive to things in books, in college, they let loose and make dumb, drunken decisions. You know this is not unique to Bates obviously, so WHY would you live near there? That's like my deciding to live next to a prison or something... too many risks! Not that anyone deserves to be around it, but it comes with the territory. I've lived near college campuses and hated it, but I had the comprehension that this is a stage in life, in our culture and they will outgrow it. Better to be in school partying than be an obnoxious person on the street begging for money even when their clothes are nicer than mine! I find that annoying.
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every Thursday night, the college kids go up our street and most of the time are rowdy and destructive. They usually break picket fences from several of the houses the whole length of the street.
You ask, why not call the police? Well before the police get there, the students are GONE.....
We always are grateful for May and end of the school year.
Not saying all the students that attend Bates are this way, but wish they could all use some
adult judgement before going out in the adult world.
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The fact that the student states "ambulances came before the police and took several students away" sheds doubt on her claims that police are responsible for the brutality. Suspend them all, ban all involved seniors from graduation and mail them a diploma. People that behave this way dont deserve to walk down the stage.
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to clarify: one ambulance came after they were called to help a student. the police were called after the ambulance couldn't get through. more ambulances were called after police got involved and students and the police officer were hurt. it doesn't shed doubt on her claims. everything she said was true.
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It's always the cops' fault; or George Bush
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Don't forget O'Bummer!!!
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And don't forget, bates College is such a conservative place, I mean allowing bay Buchannan to speak, gosh, maybe she can be blamed for inciting the riot....
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Most of deeze meatballs are from da new world west of Mass chews its. Go home chump sterzz!
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So I see that Bates College does not have a Police Department ? Why in the hell did this get out of hand in the 1st place ??????????? Bates College of all places ........ Party on ?????? $$$$$$
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They have Bates Security. Too small a force for this type of melee. Why get anything larger than a band of mall cops, when you can use the Police from 6-7 agencies in Central maine, all whilsty not paying a dime in property taxes for the convenience!!!
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Imagine that college kids drinking!
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