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Fans Riot
Aired November 25, 2002 - 09:18 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
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BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: In Columbus, Ohio, if this is what they do what they win, what would have happened with a loss to Michigan? Shortly after OSU's victory over longtime rival Michigan, the celebrations turned flat-out ugly in Ohio. Buckeye fans burned cars, set fires, battled police. This morning, many are still waking up in to jail.
Jeff Flock has made his way to the Ohio capital to find out what went down on Saturday night, Sunday morning.
Jeff, good morning to you.
JEFF FLOCK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Indeed, Bill.
The scene of the crime here this morning. This is 13th Street. And it's overall the vestiges of it. Take a look at it. That is broken glass knocked out of windows. I tell you, I loved smell of stale beer and burned rubber here. This was the scene of one of the fires.
I want to take you to those pictures from yesterday, and these pictures are what university officials are looking at today. Because what they want to do in addition to about 50 arrests that they already made, they want to find other people who are responsible. If they can spot anybody in these TV pictures and other home video they're getting access to, they want to go ahead and charge them as well. The university president yesterday said she will be very tough on anybody that participated.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
KAREN HOLBROOK, PRES., OHIO STATE UNIV.: The university will cooperate in every way possible with the police as they investigate this event.
As in the past, those who were arrested will be immediately suspended from the university. Those who engaged in criminal activity will face expulsion.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
FLOCK: In some ways, nobody tougher than the students themselves on themselves. This is the school paper this morning, "Thugs and Alcohol" is the headline, Bill, and this paper decrying the behavior of their fellow students. So not a fun time, and of course that national title came, January 3rd, there will be police out in force in the town that day. HEMMER: Jeff, what is your measure quickly here? Was this all spontaneous?
FLOCK: Well, pretty much. As the university itself said and as the headline said, alcohol fueled all of this. Right after the game there wasn't a lot of problems; this was much later, about midnight, when all this started to kick off, and then all hell broke loose.
HEMMER: Thank you, Jeff. Jeff Flock.
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Aired November 25, 2002 - 09:18 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: In Columbus, Ohio, if this is what they do what they win, what would have happened with a loss to Michigan? Shortly after OSU's victory over longtime rival Michigan, the celebrations turned flat-out ugly in Ohio. Buckeye fans burned cars, set fires, battled police. This morning, many are still waking up in to jail.
Jeff Flock has made his way to the Ohio capital to find out what went down on Saturday night, Sunday morning.
Jeff, good morning to you.
JEFF FLOCK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Indeed, Bill.
The scene of the crime here this morning. This is 13th Street. And it's overall the vestiges of it. Take a look at it. That is broken glass knocked out of windows. I tell you, I loved smell of stale beer and burned rubber here. This was the scene of one of the fires.
I want to take you to those pictures from yesterday, and these pictures are what university officials are looking at today. Because what they want to do in addition to about 50 arrests that they already made, they want to find other people who are responsible. If they can spot anybody in these TV pictures and other home video they're getting access to, they want to go ahead and charge them as well. The university president yesterday said she will be very tough on anybody that participated.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
KAREN HOLBROOK, PRES., OHIO STATE UNIV.: The university will cooperate in every way possible with the police as they investigate this event.
As in the past, those who were arrested will be immediately suspended from the university. Those who engaged in criminal activity will face expulsion.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
FLOCK: In some ways, nobody tougher than the students themselves on themselves. This is the school paper this morning, "Thugs and Alcohol" is the headline, Bill, and this paper decrying the behavior of their fellow students. So not a fun time, and of course that national title came, January 3rd, there will be police out in force in the town that day. HEMMER: Jeff, what is your measure quickly here? Was this all spontaneous?
FLOCK: Well, pretty much. As the university itself said and as the headline said, alcohol fueled all of this. Right after the game there wasn't a lot of problems; this was much later, about midnight, when all this started to kick off, and then all hell broke loose.
HEMMER: Thank you, Jeff. Jeff Flock.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
