A Rutgers student is claiming
police brutality after she was pepper sprayed in the face when cops in riot
gear shut down an out of control block party near the campus of the New Jersey
university. Gina Barretti, a junior, says a New Brunswick cop blasted her in
the face because she wouldn't put down a Frisbee. Photos show the cop spraying
a crowd of students. Police armed with riot shields, batons and
fire-extinguisher-sized bottles of pepper spray marched down the block on
Saturday afternoon after students began fighting, burning couches and jumping
on the roofs of the houses on the block.
'It only turned into a riot
when the cops came,' Mike O’Reilly, a Rutgers senior, told the Newark
Star-Ledger. '"I thought they were spraying water and then I realized it
was pepper spray,' said Taylor Palisi, a sophomore.
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