So you’re sitting in your house on a Saturday night and a mob of almost 4,000 young people descends on your front yard for a big street party that goes ...
This event has ignited anger and exasperation from residents, police and medical first responders. And no wonder.
This thing was a tinderbox that might have exploded into full structure fires, serious injuries and even loss of life. It was just luck that it didn’t. This time.Halifax Regional Municipality and police knew this event was planned and where it was going to happen. Why didn’t they secure the perimeter of the neighbourhood and create an advance police presence earlier in the day to establish deterrence? They could have blocked the party-goers before they invaded the neighbourhood.
The students themselves — motivated by social media sites that weaponize party culture — seemed bent on disruption and destruction. For them, all the craziness makes great content for social media sites that encourage these parties.It doesn’t seem to register with them that they are lucky enough to attend an institution of higher education funded with public dollars paid out by residents of the neighbourhoods they occupy.
The Dalhousie Student Union’s response was also disappointing and a little naïve. In the aftermath, they positioned partiers as victims of police who were trying to contain and control a dangerous situation created by the students themselves. The union also tried to weave in a narrative about the social disadvantage of students. This party was not organized as a social protest. Presumably, the student union wanted to generate public sympathy for the partiers. It didn’t.They, too, were well aware of this event, monitoring social media sites that promote toxic party culture.
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