Boston police killed a 21-year-old Emerson College student Victoria Snelgrove with a crowd control bullet in the aftermath of the Boston Red Sox baseball game victory over the New York Yankees in the seventh game of a series October 20th. The incident demonstrates that a warped sense of priorities pervades Amerikan society, right down to its quintessential pastime, baseball.

Red Sox fans were celebrating a historic victory over the New York Yankees, an amazing come from behind victory to win four games straight after losing three in a row. In advance the police knew that the scale of the emotions involved would entail some rowdy street behavior in Boston after the game, especially if the Red Sox won. The Boston Police made it clear on television that they were ready for war in the street.

The U.$. sports channel ESPN covered the story this way: "Victoria Snelgrove, a 21-year-old journalism major at Emerson College, was among 16 people hurt in the revelry. The injured also included a police officer." That was the second paragraph.

The paragraph waters down completely what happened, again in a sense of "balance" mentioning "injuries" of police. As of this late afternoon the next day, no media is aware of any injury worth mentioning. That's how it should have been reported. Instead the warped media equated these scuffles with a shooting death.

Baseball is just a game, but Victoria Snelgrove is dead. The twisted people over at the official newspaper of the labor aristocracy, the Boston Herald placed the story sixth on its web page including behind two meaningless entertainment stories. Instead the lead story is about a Red Sox athlete who saved the Red Sox--David Ortiz. Nor did the Boston Herald have its own story on the topic by 6pm the 21st.

A disproportionate fear of disorder killed Victoria Snelgrove. Boston has no right to celebrate the Red Sox victory. It's city police shot a student for nothing.

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http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2004/news/story?id=1906735