“Keene State College students quickly cleaned up from a chaotic weekend on Sunday after violent parties near the city’s annual pumpkin festival led to destruction, dozens of arrests and multiple injuries.

The parties around the school coincided with the Keene Pumpkin Festival, at which the community tries to set a world record of the largest number of carved and lighted jack-o-lanterns in one place. The violence prompted police in riot gear to use tear gas as they tried to control the crowds.

Sophomore Mallory Pearce, vice president of the student body, said she saw a car flipped over in a parking lot, another car being destroyed and people being pepper-sprayed.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from Holly Ramer / SF Gate:
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Students-clean-up-after-mayhem-near-pumpkin-fest-5834344.php