So at 1:39a OPD is still not on scene. Yet, at 1:22a things are being thrown (the need for helmets).  Didn't someone suggest OPD was the reason people started throwing things?  That other agencies were well-behaved and OPD started it all?

Drew, what do you mean here?  (OPD must have attacked somewhen around this time, but was not talking about it on Tac1)

You have proof of an attack(?) but no log or do you mean they actually arrived at the scene?

audio here on the blog?

"I de-clutch, you know." Juan Manuel Fangio when asked how he avoids flat-spotting his tires when he spins the car.

As a member of the TESC Police Services Community Review Board, I took part in interviewing TESC Police Services dispatcher Cliff YOUNG on 05-Mar-2008. His description of events was illuminating, in light of the TCSO deputies' reports published by TESC Police Services director (Chief) Ed SORGER.

At or around 0103, YOUNG attempted to contact CAPCOM to request additional units for administrative support; TESC Police Services officer April MEYERS wanted extra officers available to take statements from concert attendees (in particular those who felt the arrest of Kaylen WILLIAMS was unjustified) while she (MEYERS) took WILLIAMS to the campus police "station" in Sem. I for processing.
YOUNG attempted to contact CAPCOM via the dedicated landline, only to find that CAPCOM was already trying to contact him.
Prior to 0103, CAPCOM had received multiple 911 calls reporting an officer (i.e. MEYERS) at the CRC being confronted/surrounded by a growing crowd protesting her arrest of the suspect (WILLIAMS), and on the basis of these calls, CAPCOM had opted to despatch TCSO units to the scene and had classed this as a "priority assist." CAPCOM was contacting the TESC dispatcher (YOUNG) to inform him of this fact.
YOUNG informed CAPCOM that the dispatched units were, at that time, only required for "administrative support" (i.e. to take statements from anyone wishing to make them), but that information apparently did not reach all the TCSO deputies en route to the scene.
Upon arrival, however, the TCSO deputies were informed by Officer MEYERS that their presence was required only to provide administrative support.

Note that TESC Police Services (dispatch and patrol units) typically operate on a different radio frequency from CAPCOM, so MEYERS in particular had no way to be aware of traffic on the CAPCOM frequencies. While YOUNG did have a radio receiver in his office tuned to CAPCOM frequencies, at the time the "priority assist" transmissions between CAPCOM and the TCSO deputies took place, YOUNG's attention was occupied talking to MEYERS.

1:22AM (Dispatch reads back this time to tape) "When Olympia comes in, let 'em know we need helmets, they're starting to throw stuff."

End of story.

OPD had every right and responsibility to the officers stranded to enter the situation with full force.

I guess it is true that some things were thrown early, although I don't remember seing anything. The video doesn't show anything so it couldn't have been much. The video does show a torrent of things after the OPD come in.

What is interesting is that while they do state that earlier things were thrown, later they say that riot forces are not necessary. This means that as of 1:34 the officers on the scene did not think of it as a riot. I also am interested that the order from Thurston were not for a rescue from the OPD like the OPD state in several reports. 

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