Preparing for a riot

MARCIAL GUAJARDO
Round Rock Leader
September 2, 2009

[efoods]Like “Star Wars” stormtroopers, police officers and sheriff’s deputies wielding batons and face-shielded helmets on order march tightly bunched together up the steps to the bleachers at Round Rock ISD Athletic Complex Thursday.

With boots, protective vests and shin guards, the group might be viewed by some as an intimidating force, akin to an experienced varsity football squad entering the stadium.

But seconds later it is the group in the stands that becomes the intimidator. Wearing only casual clothes, the group – largely consisting of males – whoops, yells, hops and gestures obscenely at the officers. Instead of batons, they carry whatever they can get a hold of – mostly plastic water bottles and even an empty cardboard box – but they seem emboldened by the riot squad’s mere attention to them.

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