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Police Pepper Spray CU Antiwar Protesters - Students Surge Into Student Union
by repost Friday, Jan. 31, 2003 at 8:22 AM

Anti-war demonstrators assaulted in Boulder, CO.

"The sound system was unplugged and then one of the protesters attempted to gain entry back into the building to plug it back in," CU police spokesman Tim McGraw said.

Police Pepper Spray CU Antiwar Protesters
Students Surge Into Student Union To Replug Speakers

POSTED: 5:16 a.m. MST January 30, 2003
UPDATED: 9:16 a.m. MST January 30, 2003

BOULDER, Colo. -- Police in Boulder used pepper spray to disperse hundreds of antiwar demonstrators on the University of Colorado campus Wednesday afternoon after they refused to leave voluntarily.

The university said one police officer was hospitalized after a protester sprayed him with Mace during the confrontation. CU police Lt. John Kish was treated and released from a hospital, 7NEWS reported.

The incident happened when about 400 students gathered at about noon around the Dalton Trumbo Fountain near the student union to rally against a possible war in Iraq.

The peaceful protest deteriorated about 11/2 hours later when university custodians turned off the sound system under school policy to prevent the disruption of classes after 1 p.m.

University police moved in to disperse the crowd and the students pushed back.

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