Are you guys serious?? Did anybody actually watch the original video?? It was not a peaceful crowd at all. The cops were trying to get their companian out of harms way and the crowd would not let them. It was not until things starting getting thrown at the cops that they released the pepper spray. The cops did not start this at all, it was the so-called 'peaceful' people that started all of this!
@oxyjerms You just saw, video footage of people protesting, chanting, in a non physical/non violent manner, and then when POLICE fight, push, and pepper spray their way through a peaceful crowd (which is illegal, by the way, considering peaceful protest is allowed by U.S. law), and yet, it was the protester's fault? You're a fucking tool bro...
@blessedXwretched Are you kidding me? The cops were trying to get another cop out of harms way because the protesters had her car surrounded and would not let her leave. The cops did not do anything until things were thrown at them from the crowd. Did you not read what I said or even watch the video? When a crowd stops a cop from doing her job and then starts throwing things at the backup police officers that showed up, it does not fall under 'Peaceful' protest.
@oxyjerms They (the cops) first handcuffed the wrong person, that's why the people surrounded the car. And they peppered sprayed people in the crowd for what? The cops got what they deserved.
black this black that thats all u people talk about we as black people did nothng to deserve such racist drama. to kun or wat ever ur sn says move the fuck on this aint the 1920s or 30s this is 2010 there r succesfull black people in this society there always have ben since we were in africa. some white people r the reall niggers always tryna say stupid shit about us but yet they ttry to b like us please man move the helll on
Really I went to Evergreen and no one I've ever met beside those who I met at Evergreen would ever want to kick it with typical Evergreen people. It's too much of a god damned shame to be funny. They're loser fags.
.. against her parents in the first place and its okay if she stays just a square but she would be self concious about this too except she's just not socially intelligent enough to sense this unresolved conflict with her parents in side of herself. It's dumbness not lack of vanity though." And then there's literally like 500 of you and you all go to Evergreen and you pretend to be down but when someone challenges you you start calling everybody niggers. lol? You guys just aren't cool people.
lol you wouldn't know anything about that or have experienced any similar embarrassment. What if you called Dead Prez "niggers" and told you you were a "fuckboi cracker who obsessed over his self-image in the mirror like a sophomore highschool girl except with no chance of popularity and is too dumb to realize they should be self-conscious about having her parents call other kids when they reject her to chew them out about how its alright for her to fail at being what she wanted to beto rebel..
Around this time for some reason someone remembered about this incident freshman year trying to apologize for slavery and posted on his Myspace and hella people saw. The fake hippie kid fuckin slit his wrists over it lol. It's crazy there right now i heard it was a chain reaction and a bunch other kids in this scene started offing themselves..
cause that's like the new thing there is to embarrass themselves on line and then kill themselves. No shit, this one fake hippie white kid .. Freshman year he walked up to a black dude at a party and tried to apologize to him for slavery and everyone laughed at him and the black dude was pissed. Hippie kid felt so bad about it he became a rapper, even had gigs up in seattle, like 4 years later.
you know a lot of people with influence aren't just gonna be really cold to a group of people like this for no reason but everyone see's what's going on though lol. Watch the footage at the end? Are they really angry about that arrest? "Wu tang Clan Ain't Nothing to Fuck With?" I just went there for 5 years and my reason is that I know people there are incredibly annoying and shallow.
If you go to Evergreen (I'm an alumni) you know what's really going on. These people don't have a thing to do with the hip hop movement and don't give a shit about anyone but themselves, especially not anyone who typically gets racially profiled. There's plenty of shit that happened in the future that makes this all too true.
There was a follow up visit from M- 1 to discuss more productive activism i believe .. haha.. if anyone cared enough to really listen to what he said.. there you go.
Black or white, after listening to Dead Prez you must recognize the soul and quality time these men put into there music. This is REAL hip hop, Turn of your radios... fuck all that other bullshit.
black man made a mark , white man never wanted things this way , if a black man does something , it be true , it might be a total lie , guys lets faceit , if a black man does something he is against the world with the power of the devil ? a break we need , black man takin over , watch out whities , your time is runnin out , Black empowerment Peace , i am a proud zimbabwean , not for Mugabe , but Black man has to get back whats been stolen . Peace
i wish more african americans would listen to dead prez it took white students to start the revolution. come on would you rather have a lexus a neckless or freedom.
yah thats exactly what im saying, if by niggers you mean people who think they are the toughest shit in the world, doesnt matter colour white or black. Im not racist im just stating the obvious
Wow you suck at making a point niggers are black people that can't talk they more likely to shout and be aggressive. a black person is a black person who can talk and not be an ignorant nigger. theres a difference they don't have to be from nigeria you prick.
@TheInfinityskateteam yoo bitch.. stop calling us niggers. we r beings of this fuckng earth that made a fucking impact we creatied hip hop.. and all the elements.of hip hop.. djayingg mceing bboying poping and locking and its nt jst a black person its any fucking body gain some dam knowladge stop talkiing about black people we did nothng to deserve shit like this give it a dam rest already leave us the fuck alone, god
Man stfu you cant even make a Good Beat upload it into protools. record the rapper at a good level. then mix the hole shit down. thats what i thought fuck bboy ..
hip hop music is only for criminals or white people posing to be criminals. Numbers equal danger, if I was there I would handle it the same, my life or yours, id take yours in a second.
This video is bullshit. Apart from being wrong in its attitude, it's just poor-quality journalism.
An "uprising" is a revolt by a collective seeking justice against an occupying, marauding force; that's not what this is. This is just dumb cops versus dumb kids. What happened here was a result of common stupidity.
Meanwhile, the cause of the whole incident - the question of whether that one guy's arrest was justified or not - gets lost in the noise.
How would you know? You was still a SPERM IN YO DADDY'S NUT SACK when hip hop or rap was even developed. Let me know when your little balls drop into your nut sack and your voice becomes masculine.....then maybe I'll take you seriously. GO HOME little boy or maybe you're a girl....???
listen to yourself... it HAS to be embarrassing. I clearly said you were ignorant about the subject matter for your claim. Then you pop off talking about sperm and nutsacks.... ahahha, fucking psycho.
"we offer not only as media producers and advocates of the hip hop culture, but also as supporters toward the movement of universal restorative justice and proactive restitution"
That is the most liberal fucking shit I have ever heard and Im just going to stop there because this video is shit, the narrator is fucking stupid. and I cant even comment without cursing right now. Im just like Wtf in my head. Hypocritical, Grandiloquent Rhetoric...FUCK.
that is what the police get. they think that they are above the law. this goes to show, dont fuck with the american youth because we are not going to take the establishments shit any more.
yea its the best they can do within the current system...and the entire concert was about how fucked up the system was...so what do you think a group of people with a mob mentality is gonna do? theyre gonna say yea fuck the system keeping him in a cell for who knows how long until he finally gets out, theyre gonna say fuck the system "LET HIM GO" which they did...big deal, they were drunk n high and had mob mentality, what do you expect? the sight of the flipper car was gorgeous, all i can say
there is no movement without resistance. flipping a car makes a bigger statement than any court case that would come from this - the judicial system will not take testimony of students over police officers anyway. why argue to not act to help a human who is being wrongfully screwed by the system? the po minions are not free to rain down terror upon people who stand up, so make your voice heard. ~solidarity
everyone posting comments saying negative things about those involved need to get a life. you dont even know how this ordeal started, so take a break.
JUSTIN WEAVER needs to stop lying to the cops abd starting riots. and the $50,000 worth of damage should have been the responsibility of JUSTIN WEAVER for starting a bunch of bs.
It is sad that the term "police brutality" keeps being used in Olympia. There are true instances of it happening on Washington state, but these Greener cries of wolf just lend less and less credence to the real problem. Surrounding a cop car and not letting it leave; it seems like four cops using pepper spray against a few hundred people seems reasonable. Open the history books and read about "Kent State" if you want to see how bad things can get. The cops in Oly seemed pretty restrained.
I must have missed the part where it "began as a peaceful demonstration." Somehow what you call an uprising to me looks a lot like mob mentality. Dancing on the police car? Posing for pictures with it? Looks like a bunch of self-important people who think they accomplished something. Are we to believe a few hundred people were witnesses to the original event and KNEW that the suspect was innocent? That would be pretty amazing if true.
i think you guys are the only ones who have shed light on the larger reality of this situation in a context going beyond a hip-hop show and a bunch of stupid kids... thanks.
yeah cops are stupid as hell. usually when the shit hits the fan its because the cops turned a peaceful gathering into a riot because they always gotta start abusing thier authority by pushing and hitting people. cops always escalate situations and get people hurt. this incident is nothing compared to Waco Texas, the crown jewel of cops-fuking it up.
The port protests were great as they gave voice to the outrage many feel about the Iraq war, outrage that seems largely ignored by the media. But this? This is just students being stupid. Cops were doing their job. What's the point?
Thank you for adding some balance to this story. "Riot at Evergreen, Students Overturn Cop Car" was the simplified, late-to-the-scene Olympian version. The Olympia Police Department has -- if not a problem with violence and rogue employees -- at the very least, an image problem. Their actions at Evergreen -- starting that riot -- does little to help their image problem.
Thank you for adding some balance to this story. "Riot at Evergreen, Students Overturn Cop Car" was the simplified, late-to-the-scene Olympian version. The Olympia Police Department has -- if not a problem with violence and rogue employees -- at the very least, an image problem. Their actions at Evergreen -- starting that riot -- does little to help their image problem.
And so is rioting and fighting the police, which Dead Prez supports. Don't be afraid to support revolutionary action, it's the only thing at all that gives relevance to revolutionary writings.
Well done. I truely believe this was an actual presentation of the events that took place that night. When I read in the National news what had happened I knew the story had been "doctored." Thank the Goddess for Youtube, The Evergreen Media Dept. and all the devotees.
"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.
I was there.
Cennagon360 1 year ago
Based on this video, the cops that where wearing blue most definately made the situation a lot worse.
jrs199x 1 year ago
Sounds like everything would have been fine if they police wouldn't have gotten involved.
JFizoust 1 year ago
i hate students sometimes
davclou 1 year ago
@davclou Too left-wing for you?
Sydwayman 21 hours ago
Are you guys serious?? Did anybody actually watch the original video?? It was not a peaceful crowd at all. The cops were trying to get their companian out of harms way and the crowd would not let them. It was not until things starting getting thrown at the cops that they released the pepper spray. The cops did not start this at all, it was the so-called 'peaceful' people that started all of this!
oxyjerms 1 year ago 3
@oxyjerms You just saw, video footage of people protesting, chanting, in a non physical/non violent manner, and then when POLICE fight, push, and pepper spray their way through a peaceful crowd (which is illegal, by the way, considering peaceful protest is allowed by U.S. law), and yet, it was the protester's fault? You're a fucking tool bro...
blessedXwretched 1 year ago
@blessedXwretched Are you kidding me? The cops were trying to get another cop out of harms way because the protesters had her car surrounded and would not let her leave. The cops did not do anything until things were thrown at them from the crowd. Did you not read what I said or even watch the video? When a crowd stops a cop from doing her job and then starts throwing things at the backup police officers that showed up, it does not fall under 'Peaceful' protest.
oxyjerms 1 year ago
@oxyjerms They (the cops) first handcuffed the wrong person, that's why the people surrounded the car. And they peppered sprayed people in the crowd for what? The cops got what they deserved.
JFizoust 1 year ago
in 5 years you guys are just gonna unpopular around the office at you job as software engineers Suck my dick.
kunluv 1 year ago
anarchists who end up getting too afraid of the people they've been trying to fuck with and call the cops for protection. WHAT FUCKIN PUSSIES.
kunluv 1 year ago
@kunluv You're an idiot. Try again. Cop-bitch called for back up. *shakes head* ignorant mother fuckers.
blessedXwretched 1 year ago
woooooo. hahahaha. Evergreen kids are such ... fucking ... faggots.
kunluv 1 year ago
black this black that thats all u people talk about we as black people did nothng to deserve such racist drama. to kun or wat ever ur sn says move the fuck on this aint the 1920s or 30s this is 2010 there r succesfull black people in this society there always have ben since we were in africa. some white people r the reall niggers always tryna say stupid shit about us but yet they ttry to b like us please man move the helll on
bboydizzy69 1 year ago
Really I went to Evergreen and no one I've ever met beside those who I met at Evergreen would ever want to kick it with typical Evergreen people. It's too much of a god damned shame to be funny. They're loser fags.
kunluv 2 years ago
.. against her parents in the first place and its okay if she stays just a square but she would be self concious about this too except she's just not socially intelligent enough to sense this unresolved conflict with her parents in side of herself. It's dumbness not lack of vanity though." And then there's literally like 500 of you and you all go to Evergreen and you pretend to be down but when someone challenges you you start calling everybody niggers. lol? You guys just aren't cool people.
kunluv 2 years ago
lol you wouldn't know anything about that or have experienced any similar embarrassment. What if you called Dead Prez "niggers" and told you you were a "fuckboi cracker who obsessed over his self-image in the mirror like a sophomore highschool girl except with no chance of popularity and is too dumb to realize they should be self-conscious about having her parents call other kids when they reject her to chew them out about how its alright for her to fail at being what she wanted to beto rebel..
kunluv 2 years ago
Around this time for some reason someone remembered about this incident freshman year trying to apologize for slavery and posted on his Myspace and hella people saw. The fake hippie kid fuckin slit his wrists over it lol. It's crazy there right now i heard it was a chain reaction and a bunch other kids in this scene started offing themselves..
kunluv 2 years ago
cause that's like the new thing there is to embarrass themselves on line and then kill themselves. No shit, this one fake hippie white kid .. Freshman year he walked up to a black dude at a party and tried to apologize to him for slavery and everyone laughed at him and the black dude was pissed. Hippie kid felt so bad about it he became a rapper, even had gigs up in seattle, like 4 years later.
kunluv 2 years ago
haha ... you don't happen to go to Evergreen do you?
kunluv 2 years ago
haha no. you're too big a pussy that also why you would never say anything like that to a black person in real life.
kunluv 2 years ago
InfinitySkateTeam you are excellent at making point however you're quite articulate. Would you like to kill yourself now?
kunluv 2 years ago
A lot of those indie kids (Evergreen's a hotbed for indie apparently) are just flat out racist too so you really gotta wonder.
kunluv 2 years ago
Evergreen Students definitely enjoy the feeling of embarrassment its like self contentedness or rest to any one else
kunluv 2 years ago
.. and Evergreen Students loooovvee to be embarrassed, if not just for embarrassments sake itself, you can not stop them.
kunluv 2 years ago
you know a lot of people with influence aren't just gonna be really cold to a group of people like this for no reason but everyone see's what's going on though lol. Watch the footage at the end? Are they really angry about that arrest? "Wu tang Clan Ain't Nothing to Fuck With?" I just went there for 5 years and my reason is that I know people there are incredibly annoying and shallow.
kunluv 2 years ago
If you go to Evergreen (I'm an alumni) you know what's really going on. These people don't have a thing to do with the hip hop movement and don't give a shit about anyone but themselves, especially not anyone who typically gets racially profiled. There's plenty of shit that happened in the future that makes this all too true.
There was a follow up visit from M- 1 to discuss more productive activism i believe .. haha.. if anyone cared enough to really listen to what he said.. there you go.
kunluv 2 years ago
Yeah Evergreen Students are fucking ANNOYING
kunluv 2 years ago
Black or white, after listening to Dead Prez you must recognize the soul and quality time these men put into there music. This is REAL hip hop, Turn of your radios... fuck all that other bullshit.
BTW: Best concert I have ever been to
MayrahFuckinoza 2 years ago
black man made a mark , white man never wanted things this way , if a black man does something , it be true , it might be a total lie , guys lets faceit , if a black man does something he is against the world with the power of the devil ? a break we need , black man takin over , watch out whities , your time is runnin out , Black empowerment Peace , i am a proud zimbabwean , not for Mugabe , but Black man has to get back whats been stolen . Peace
frankthabo 2 years ago
i wish more african americans would listen to dead prez it took white students to start the revolution. come on would you rather have a lexus a neckless or freedom.
lookingatcrap 2 years ago
yah thats exactly what im saying, if by niggers you mean people who think they are the toughest shit in the world, doesnt matter colour white or black. Im not racist im just stating the obvious
penney1414 2 years ago
you are a racist and you are a little knobhead
Xtramentalstencilist 2 years ago
Niggers are from nigeria Paki's are from pakistan any other refferrence is rasist ...Standard
any jamacian that states someone as there nigga is in reference too the nigerian roots everyone else is misguided ...
loopyrider 2 years ago
Wow you suck at making a point niggers are black people that can't talk they more likely to shout and be aggressive. a black person is a black person who can talk and not be an ignorant nigger. theres a difference they don't have to be from nigeria you prick.
TheInfinityskateteam 2 years ago
@TheInfinityskateteam yoo bitch.. stop calling us niggers. we r beings of this fuckng earth that made a fucking impact we creatied hip hop.. and all the elements.of hip hop.. djayingg mceing bboying poping and locking and its nt jst a black person its any fucking body gain some dam knowladge stop talkiing about black people we did nothng to deserve shit like this give it a dam rest already leave us the fuck alone, god
bboydizzy69 1 year ago
Man stfu you cant even make a Good Beat upload it into protools. record the rapper at a good level. then mix the hole shit down. thats what i thought fuck bboy ..
TheInfinityskateteam 1 year ago
hip hop music is only for criminals or white people posing to be criminals. Numbers equal danger, if I was there I would handle it the same, my life or yours, id take yours in a second.
penney1414 2 years ago
If you realy think that than your a dumbass
vstatv 2 years ago
what you are saying is: hip hop music is only for criminals (niggers), or white people posing to be criminals (those that see themselves as niggers).
SHUT UP YOU LITTLE KNOBHEAD!
Xtramentalstencilist 2 years ago
life is so hard in America...
gryphmeg2 2 years ago
stop plate tectonics!
laiede03 3 years ago
This video is bullshit. Apart from being wrong in its attitude, it's just poor-quality journalism.
An "uprising" is a revolt by a collective seeking justice against an occupying, marauding force; that's not what this is. This is just dumb cops versus dumb kids. What happened here was a result of common stupidity.
Meanwhile, the cause of the whole incident - the question of whether that one guy's arrest was justified or not - gets lost in the noise.
LeGronk 3 years ago 2
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Hip Hop = NOTHING
They will always SELL their SOUL'S for MONEY, POWER & FAME. In the end it sums up to NOTHING. (NO SOUL)= Nothing
ASK THE DEAD.....
ReekoChet 3 years ago
you might be confusing "hiphop" with "rap"
stop using mtv and bet as fodder to spew your ignorance about a culture you clearly have no clue about.
eeedel 2 years ago 4
How would you know? You was still a SPERM IN YO DADDY'S NUT SACK when hip hop or rap was even developed. Let me know when your little balls drop into your nut sack and your voice becomes masculine.....then maybe I'll take you seriously. GO HOME little boy or maybe you're a girl....???
ReekoChet 2 years ago
listen to yourself... it HAS to be embarrassing. I clearly said you were ignorant about the subject matter for your claim. Then you pop off talking about sperm and nutsacks.... ahahha, fucking psycho.
eeedel 2 years ago 3
I bet u love this dudes dad nut sack dont u fuk head! Go suk a cock, u dont no shit about hip hop n Rap..
chappzstix 2 years ago
"we offer not only as media producers and advocates of the hip hop culture, but also as supporters toward the movement of universal restorative justice and proactive restitution"
7:40 - 8:00
That is the most liberal fucking shit I have ever heard and Im just going to stop there because this video is shit, the narrator is fucking stupid. and I cant even comment without cursing right now. Im just like Wtf in my head. Hypocritical, Grandiloquent Rhetoric...FUCK.
nvaspider 3 years ago 3
is this the only video
thekingnoah 3 years ago
So never mind that the guy was being questioned for BEATING THE CRAP out of a female?
k1dork 3 years ago 3
that is what the police get. they think that they are above the law. this goes to show, dont fuck with the american youth because we are not going to take the establishments shit any more.
kaptured1 3 years ago
you are so punk rock.
JGO126 3 years ago
ACAB, no exceptions, never forget
XXtazy 3 years ago
yea its the best they can do within the current system...and the entire concert was about how fucked up the system was...so what do you think a group of people with a mob mentality is gonna do? theyre gonna say yea fuck the system keeping him in a cell for who knows how long until he finally gets out, theyre gonna say fuck the system "LET HIM GO" which they did...big deal, they were drunk n high and had mob mentality, what do you expect? the sight of the flipper car was gorgeous, all i can say
jjjhs08 3 years ago
POLICE ARE ASSHOLES!
mccobb3221 3 years ago
Where are my credits for that last beat??
Audeos 3 years ago
FUCK THE POLICE!
plomovic 3 years ago
Wait, this isnt Dead Prez..
TheoBlackledge 3 years ago
it was after their show
jjjhs08 3 years ago
there is no movement without resistance. flipping a car makes a bigger statement than any court case that would come from this - the judicial system will not take testimony of students over police officers anyway. why argue to not act to help a human who is being wrongfully screwed by the system? the po minions are not free to rain down terror upon people who stand up, so make your voice heard. ~solidarity
wakeupubc 3 years ago
I will give you $25 for that turned over car!
mwando 3 years ago
i was lookin for dead prez...failure
therealallpro 3 years ago
everyone posting comments saying negative things about those involved need to get a life. you dont even know how this ordeal started, so take a break.
JUSTIN WEAVER needs to stop lying to the cops abd starting riots. and the $50,000 worth of damage should have been the responsibility of JUSTIN WEAVER for starting a bunch of bs.
xxannaxx23 3 years ago
Wow, you people are fucking diluted!
andrewrcoy 3 years ago
The police are always brutal. Their existance is to defend brutality. Right on Evergreen for standing up to bullshit
redwallace 4 years ago
It is sad that the term "police brutality" keeps being used in Olympia. There are true instances of it happening on Washington state, but these Greener cries of wolf just lend less and less credence to the real problem. Surrounding a cop car and not letting it leave; it seems like four cops using pepper spray against a few hundred people seems reasonable. Open the history books and read about "Kent State" if you want to see how bad things can get. The cops in Oly seemed pretty restrained.
IvanCU 4 years ago 2
I must have missed the part where it "began as a peaceful demonstration." Somehow what you call an uprising to me looks a lot like mob mentality. Dancing on the police car? Posing for pictures with it? Looks like a bunch of self-important people who think they accomplished something. Are we to believe a few hundred people were witnesses to the original event and KNEW that the suspect was innocent? That would be pretty amazing if true.
IvanCU 4 years ago 2
i think you guys are the only ones who have shed light on the larger reality of this situation in a context going beyond a hip-hop show and a bunch of stupid kids... thanks.
igshort 4 years ago
yeah cops are stupid as hell. usually when the shit hits the fan its because the cops turned a peaceful gathering into a riot because they always gotta start abusing thier authority by pushing and hitting people. cops always escalate situations and get people hurt. this incident is nothing compared to Waco Texas, the crown jewel of cops-fuking it up.
sfields619 4 years ago
The port protests were great as they gave voice to the outrage many feel about the Iraq war, outrage that seems largely ignored by the media. But this? This is just students being stupid. Cops were doing their job. What's the point?
orchardmonkey 4 years ago 3
Great video, the music, interviews, and commentary is excellent. Fuck the police.
kingblast333 4 years ago
Great video, the music, interviews, and commentary is excellent. Fuck the police.
kingblast333 4 years ago
Excellent documentary. Its great to see independent media at this level of professionalism.
Cascadianow 4 years ago 3
Another example of facist cops' illegal violent actions going unpunished. This stuff makes me sick.
Power to the people! Fuck the police!
SachaVandersluis 4 years ago
Unaddressed issues, cause a constituency to boil. Neglecting the people and their political needs, ultimately leads to violence.
Partida2012 4 years ago 3
You've been warned pigs.
Partida2012 4 years ago
Fuck the Cops
DLabri3 4 years ago 3
huge props and respect for making this. big up.
runtledat0753 4 years ago
Thank you so much for the intelligent analysis of what actually happened!
alapoet 4 years ago 3
Very well done, this is a much more balanced description then i've heard from either side
samlich 4 years ago 2
Lovin' it! Excellent video. Solid footage, interviewing, and reporting. A+
Crownedson 4 years ago 3
This was a terrific compilation of the many different reports of what happened that night. Thanks for do it.
~grace, class of 2005
graceaware 4 years ago 5
Thank you for adding some balance to this story. "Riot at Evergreen, Students Overturn Cop Car" was the simplified, late-to-the-scene Olympian version. The Olympia Police Department has -- if not a problem with violence and rogue employees -- at the very least, an image problem. Their actions at Evergreen -- starting that riot -- does little to help their image problem.
Thank you for your work. Much respect.
beatsmeseattle 4 years ago 5
Thank you for adding some balance to this story. "Riot at Evergreen, Students Overturn Cop Car" was the simplified, late-to-the-scene Olympian version. The Olympia Police Department has -- if not a problem with violence and rogue employees -- at the very least, an image problem. Their actions at Evergreen -- starting that riot -- does little to help their image problem.
Thank you for your work. Much respect.
beatsmeseattle 4 years ago 3
Truth is Revolution! Power to the people. Dead Prez is revolutionary!
inkululeko 4 years ago
And so is rioting and fighting the police, which Dead Prez supports. Don't be afraid to support revolutionary action, it's the only thing at all that gives relevance to revolutionary writings.
smileya 4 years ago 3
Well done. I truely believe this was an actual presentation of the events that took place that night. When I read in the National news what had happened I knew the story had been "doctored." Thank the Goddess for Youtube, The Evergreen Media Dept. and all the devotees.
strangesky 4 years ago 2
"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.
juliec206 4 years ago