Several news outlets reported on a large crowd that threw beer bottles and snowballs at police and destroyed a light pole in Canal Park after the University of Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs won the Frozen Four hockey championship game. None of the outlets called this a “riot,” and the participants were not charged by police with rioting or inciting a riot.
IMPACT: the community saw how police and other community members talked about and addressed this incident. They saw an event associated primarily with white folks treated completely differently than events associated with people of color. This demonstrates the concerns people had expressed about how police will treat protesters and people of color come to life.
Photo Credit: Duluth News Tribune “A man climbs down from the the Grandma’s Sports Garden sign after the Bulldogs won the Final Four National Championship game Saturday. Tyler Schank / tschank@duluthnews.com”
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