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Students plan to file complaints with JPD; Grove incident not handled right, they say
Sarah Morris
Issue date: 11/17/08 Section: News
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"I think we have about eight-10 (written complaints) right now, but not everybody has completed theirs so I'm not sure how many there are going to be," Chelsea Adams, a senior psychology major of North Little Rock, said.
Adams said the complaints would be filed with JPD after the students attended class. According to JPD, no written complaints had been filed as of Friday afternoon.
The number of people involved in the celebration at The Grove apartments, 500 N. Caraway Road, would be one of the items listed in the complaint, Alex Ingram, a senior journalism major of Little Rock, said.
Both Adams and Ingram said there were not 200-250 people at the celebration, which was the JPD estimate of the crowd in the police reports.
"I really think we're stretching it to 60-70 people," Ingram said.
Jonesboro Police Chief Mike Yates said 200-250 was only an estimate of the number of people at the celebration and that the real number of participants could be anywhere between 75 to 125 people. He cited the conflicting numbers as a result of the night's chaos.
Brittany Jones, a senior advertising major of North Little Rock, said a second problem at the incident was the fact that no bottles were thrown or guns shot as stated in the police reports.
Jones said she searched the area, along with others and the Grove's general manager, without finding a single bottle or bullet.
The women, along with Brittany Jackson, a sophomore Radio-TV major of Southaven, Miss., and Brittany Reynolds, a sophomore English education major of Little Rock, also said the men arrested were innocent.
"It never got out of control and police rushed the scene," Jackson said. "They made it out of control. No student out there was out of control. They were not throwing bottles."
Jackson said the police were also "just grabbing people randomly."
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