Tyrone N. Butts
APE Reporter
Teens Riot In Dyersburg
It happened outside a teen club in Dyersburg, Tennessee. Eyewitness News was the only station there, on the scene within minutes of the first call for help.
"Little kids was passing out from being sprayed, couldn't breath, no little kid that young should get sprayed."
That's how eyewitnesses and police describe the scene late Saturday night outside this teenage nightclub in Dyersburg. Around 11 o'clock a fight broke out on the parking but wasn't long before it became much more. <br
"These two girls got to fighting. With them getting to fighting they've got family, they got to fighting they tried to break it up. The police come around
they just mace everybody," eyewitness Atatavis Cunningham says.
"We had five to si
x patrol officers that were here, additional officers had to be called in, the special response team had to be called in due to the size of the crowd," Lieutenant Steve Isbell says.
Police say a crowd of nearly a hundred turned on officers that's when they say it was necessary to use a mace or pepper type spray to get them under control.
"I don't think it was appropriate for these little kids cause they was crying and just because they was in the way plus breaking a little kids nose, they didn't take them to the hospital, they just let them sit out there, parent had to take them themselves," eyewitness Ashley Marberry says.
"There was people going everywhere, talking about getting guns out, that's when we pulled over here," eyewitness Jackie Lineberry says.
When Eyewitness
News got on the scene at least a couple dozen officers were still there, ambulances, and fire trucks too. Police say they were doing what was necessary.
"
When the officers attempted to arrest the two that were fighting the crowd got involved with the officers and at that point is when the chemical agent was administered to neutralize the situation," Lieutenant Isbell says.
In the end, three police officers went to the hospital; the worst injury appears to be a broken ankle. Several teens went to the hospital as well with injuries ranging from burning eyes and lungs to possible broken bones. Dyersburg police say a through investigation as to exactly what happened will begin immediately.
Dyersburg police tell us two adults and four juveniles were treated at the Dy
ersburg hospital last night. They have no information that anyone's nose was broken by police at last night's riot. They say the worst injuries were burning eyes and some hyperventilation fr
om the pepper spray used by officers.
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T.N.B.
It happened outside a teen club in Dyersburg, Tennessee. Eyewitness News was the only station there, on the scene within minutes of the first call for help.
"Little kids was passing out from being sprayed, couldn't breath, no little kid that young should get sprayed."
That's how eyewitnesses and police describe the scene late Saturday night outside this teenage nightclub in Dyersburg. Around 11 o'clock a fight broke out on the parking but wasn't long before it became much more. <br
"These two girls got to fighting. With them getting to fighting they've got family, they got to fighting they tried to break it up. The police come around
they just mace everybody," eyewitness Atatavis Cunningham says.
"We had five to si
x patrol officers that were here, additional officers had to be called in, the special response team had to be called in due to the size of the crowd," Lieutenant Steve Isbell says.
Police say a crowd of nearly a hundred turned on officers that's when they say it was necessary to use a mace or pepper type spray to get them under control.
"I don't think it was appropriate for these little kids cause they was crying and just because they was in the way plus breaking a little kids nose, they didn't take them to the hospital, they just let them sit out there, parent had to take them themselves," eyewitness Ashley Marberry says.
"There was people going everywhere, talking about getting guns out, that's when we pulled over here," eyewitness Jackie Lineberry says.
When Eyewitness
News got on the scene at least a couple dozen officers were still there, ambulances, and fire trucks too. Police say they were doing what was necessary.
"
When the officers attempted to arrest the two that were fighting the crowd got involved with the officers and at that point is when the chemical agent was administered to neutralize the situation," Lieutenant Isbell says.
In the end, three police officers went to the hospital; the worst injury appears to be a broken ankle. Several teens went to the hospital as well with injuries ranging from burning eyes and lungs to possible broken bones. Dyersburg police say a through investigation as to exactly what happened will begin immediately.
Dyersburg police tell us two adults and four juveniles were treated at the Dy
ersburg hospital last night. They have no information that anyone's nose was broken by police at last night's riot. They say the worst injuries were burning eyes and some hyperventilation fr
om the pepper spray used by officers.
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I is putting dis heah story in duh suspected cause of da quotes in ebonics, knowha'm'say'n?
T.N.B.