“Police were forced to descend on Keene, New Hampshire Saturday night after students and outside agitators turned the city’s 24th annual Pumpkin Festival into “a destination for destructive and raucous behavior.”
Those words — spoken by Keene State College President Anne Huot to CNN — only begin to describe the scene, which led to dozens of arrests and hospitalizations.”*
Read more from RawStory.com here: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/whites-riot-over-pumpkins-in-nh-and-twitter-turns-it-into-epic-lesson-about-ferguson/
Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) and Ana Kasparian (http://www.youtube.com/styleogue) of The Young Turks discuss the story and the reaction by the festival organizer. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. Was the reporter assaulted?
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J. Law, Pumpkin Riot, Ebola Panic, The Birdman & Michelle Knight – The Young Turks 10/20/2014 Social Commentary
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