<p>Will you be testifying on Friday as to who, of the five people arrested, "actually deserved it" and who was "acting in self defense" against whom? I take it the miscreant, in your opinion, was a football player, because "the hockey players ... didn't start anything." </p>
<p>What was the "excessive force" used by the police summonsed by the store owner, and how did the window get broken?</p>
<p>The shame is that it wasn't the Yale Daily News, which has maintained radio silence on this topic.</p>
<p>I think the miscreant here is you.</p>
<p>A not surprising view for you to hold, in light of your fierce loyalties and narrow sense of what's important. <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=214558%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=214558</a></p>
<p>Presumably you find the authors of the cited article a bunch of scoundrels as well.</p>
<p>Arrested outside of a specialty market? I haven't seen any details in relation to what happened. If this was a bar brawl then ........But specialty market? Maybe it was the guys from the marching band calling them out....maybe someone threw an apricot at the QB?</p>
<p>charges dropped:</p>
<p>Already posted.</p>
<p>It seems as though the defense attorney played this one well, going on the counteroffensive with the charge that the police used excessive force and exacerbated the whole situation. The fact that "under the dismissals, each admitted to probable cause for the arrest" indicates that this tactic concerned the police and the city, which presumably made them more willing to let the whole thing drop - getting protection against any subsequent civil claims through the "probable cause" admissions. I'm sure some economic compensation to the store owner helped grease the skids as well.</p>
<p>And, of course, Yale gets to pretend the whole thing never happened, keeping their two star players on the field as we head into the heart of the Ivy schedule. Pretty good to turn a drunken brawl into a win-win for everyone. ;)</p>
<p>"win win" perhaps, except for the integrity of the football program.</p>