topic : Dead Prez
March 2008
by Tony Zaragoza
I was at the Dead Prez show on the night of Thursday, Feb. 14, and have been a fan of rap/hip-hop since the mid ’80s. I arrived at Thursday night’s show around 10 pm. Through the night I saw nothing happen at the concert that was out of the ordinary. I didn’t see any of the scuffles that are mentioned in the accounts below. I left at 12:40 am, and as I was exiting the CRC I saw a female officer standing and talking with a white man who was seated on the ground. At that moment I wondered what was going on, but I couldn’t imagine what would happen later, and was quite surprised . . .
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March 2008
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stic.man of Dead Prez at The Evergreen State College, February 14, 2008. (Photo by Brendan McGarry)
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March 2008
by Pete Bohmer
I would like to expand and explain more the comments I made at the February 19, 2008, noon forum called by Evergreen President Les Purce to discuss the events connected to the Dead Prez concert. Although I did not attend the concert, I have spoken to many eyewitnesses and I am also relying on the eyewitness accounts collected and posted by Tony Zaragoza, Tuesday morning on the TESC Talk mailing list [and reprinted here on page 1]. President Les Purce in setting terms for this forum in his opening comments, focused on the overturning of the police car, not what led up to it. This . . .
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