Quoted:
Quoted: Atleast we in Red Sox Nation can cope with losing better, although it's nice not to have to this year!
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Right....
There were riots in Boston last night. 16 arrested, a cop with a broken nose from something thrown at him.
THIS is how you guys celebrate VICTORY?
Oh, and +1 to what IamtheNRA said. A SPLENDID performance!
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A female college student was also killed.
Link..."Emerson College student dies after postgame melee
By Denise Lavoie, AP Legal Affairs Writer | October 21, 2004
BOSTON -- A 21-year-old college student died Thursday of a head injury after a clash between police and a crowd of Red Sox fans who poured into the streets outside Fenway Park to celebrate their team's victory over the New York Yankees.
Victoria Snelgrove, a journalism major at Emerson College in Boston, was shot in the eye by a projectile fired by an officer on crowd-control duty. The nature of the projectile was not immediately identified but officers were armed with weapons meant to be non-lethal.
During a news conference carried live on local television stations, Boston Police Commissioner Kathleen O'Toole apologized to Snelgrove's family and said the agency "accepts full responsibility for the death of Victoria Snelgrove.
"The Boston Police Department is devastated by this tragedy. This terrible event should never have happened," O'Toole said.
Snelgrove, of East Bridgewater, was among 16 people hurt in Boston's Kenmore Square neighborhood early Thursday morning, after thousands of fans spilled out onto the streets to celebrate the Sox winning the American League pennant. She died at Brigham and Women's Hospital later in the day.
"It appears from evidence that 'Tori' was killed when she was hit in the eye ... as officers tried to control mobs outside the ballpark," O'Toole said.
O'Toole and Mayor Thomas Menino pledged to fully investigate the incident.
Snelgrove's father, Rick Snelgrove, expressed outrage and said his daughter did nothing wrong. Standing outside the family home, he held up a photograph of his smiling daughter.
"What happened to her should not happen to any American citizen going to any type of game, no matter what," he said. "She loved the Red Sox. She went in to celebrate with friends. She was a bystander. She was out of the way, but she still got shot. Awful things happen to good people. My daughter was an exceptional person."
Keep in mind that Fenway Park is located in a area (Kenmore Square, the Fenway), heavily populated by college students so the "fans" creating the problems don't necessarily represent the fans who are residents here.
The same problem occurred last year when the Pats won the Super Bowl and the students in the Fenway area created all sorts of havoc (even though Sullivan stadium is about 30 miles away from Boston). They overturned cars and fought with the police, etc. A kid was killed in that show of "fan" enthusiasm also.