Multiple arrests, medical calls as police use ‘chemical munitions’ to break up UD gathering

Officers broke up astatine St. Patrick’s Day gathering adjacent the University of Dayton Saturday day aft aggregate arrests and medic calls to the area.

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News Center 7′s Malik Patterson speaks with students who were a portion of the solemnisation LIVE connected News Center 7 astatine 11.

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According to a connection sent by the University of Dayton, medics were called to the 400 artifact of Lowes Street astir 20 times by 3 p.m. Police dispatch told News Center 7, the calls were for ‘unconscious males.’

Because of this, officers were attempting to disperse crowds successful the country for the information of responding crews. According to the university, bottles were thrown astatine officers and the assemblage was not ‘heeding commands.’

Officers past utilized ‘chemical munitions’ to disperse the crowds and 5 radical were arrested, according to the university.

News Center 7 spoke to radical attending the lawsuit who said they were deed with capsicum balls.

The assemblage says they volition proceed to reappraisal today’s events and that instrumentality enforcement volition stay connected field this evening.

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