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Originally posted by starang21
let me slow this down for you and use smaller words....
a reason that the entire stadium wasn't fighting was because they were to far away.
it sure looked like a good amount of people who were in close proximity to the court were acting a fool.
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According to some co-workers of mine who were there, MANY had left already (to avoid the well known Palace traffic insanity) and those who hadn't left moved UP and away from the activity if they weren't into acting a fool. In fact, the guy who threw the beer didn't have seats in that section. He moved down after most of the folks in that section had left. Were there a lot of people acting a fool? yes. Was it the majority? no. It was the people who stuck around after things got scary. The Piston's families also sit very close to the area where most of the fighting was occuring and they tried to get out really fast. I don't think anybody is defending those fans who were out of line, but we are defending the 4 million people who live in the metro Detroit area who were appalled by the whole thing and the innocent people who were injured in the chaos. One woman was pushed to the court by crowds who were just trying to get away from the action and she was taken off in an ambulance.
It was a horrific situation, caused by numerous sequential events, none of which could be construed as appropriate behavior. It is hard to not get defensive when people say things like "That guy deserved to have the crap beat out of him" (to paraphrase), because, NOBODY deserves that. People deserve to be criminally charged and held accountable for their actions in court. And they will be. Violence simply isn't the answer.
Dee