Was the Drunken Melee Following Ohio State's Win a 'White Riot'?

If you don’t think very hard — or intelligently — about the alcohol-fueled “celebration” in the streets of Columbus, Ohio, last night following the Buckeyes’ national championship victory, you might conclude that there was no difference between white people starting dumpster fires and running around aimlessly and the Ferguson protestors.

Freak Out Nation blog is referring to the disturbance as a white riot.

Police did not deploy military tanks, or open fire on a bunch of white people began rioting last night after Ohio State’s national title win over the Oregon Ducks. Property was destroyed, fires were started all over town.

Columbus Police Department spokeswoman Denise Alex-Bouzounis told NBC that about 8,000 students forced their way into The Horseshoe stadium and tore down a goal post.

She described the crowds as being “intense” after the game.

She did not call them vandals, thugs or rioters. Arrests were made apparently without beating the white rioters to a bloody pulp.

It’s a good thing they weren’t holding a sign reading ‘Black Lives Matter’ because then, they could have been in danger. But the brave white rioters stood up for a noble cause while tearing the town to pieces: football.

We totally understand why they were ‘celebrating’ that town to death. Because something about Ducks.

Time magazine called the crowd ‘rowdy’ after a dozen fires were started and 8,000 people descended on the goal post.

Just noting the hypocrisy here. I’m fairly certain that these ‘rowdy’ white people are probably some of the same people that called Ferguson protesters ‘thugs’. It’s not that I’m profiling them or anything. That would be wrong.

The brain-dead writer of this article — aptly called “anomaly” — relies on massive exaggeration of what went on last night in Columbus and massive minimization of what happened in Ferguson.

“Celebrating the town to death”? “Tearing the town to pieces”? Are you kidding? According to police reports, the “rioters” set fires to dumpsters, trash cans, and, in three cases, couches (a college tradition at many universities going back to the 1920s after a big football victory.). The local TV station reported:

The 89 fires reported to the Columbus Fire Department involved trash bins, Dumpsters and couches, according to spokeswoman Battalion Chief Tracy Smith. The agency also said it responded to five reports of people with injuries.

That’s exactly the same as “Burn this bitch down,” right?

Sheesh.

Setting fire to dumpsters and trash bins is not the same as setting fire to businesses and buildings. There were no reports of looting by the white “rioters,” and police were not threatened. There is light years of difference between the bloodthirsty mood of protestors in Ferguson and the happy, drunken college kids in Columbus.

Contrast the moods of the crowds in the two videos on the next page.

Not even close.

There were five injuries — none serious — and a “handful” of arrests. But the mental midget who authored this nonsense believes he is trying to make an important point — and swings and misses. He sees congruity instead of divergence to events in Ferguson. He can’t twist the facts far enough to come close to a comparison.

The liberal use of tear gas and pepper spray by police might have been excessive given the circumstances. The crowd had thinned considerably and there were apparently no announcements warning the remaining revelers to disperse. But to claim any similarity to the riots in Ferguson is simply loony toons — about what we’ve come to expect from the “Hands up! Don’t Shoot!” crowd.