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Chicago stampede kills 21
Feb 17, 2003 12:40
What a horrible way(reason) to die...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Twenty-one people were killed in stampede at a Chicago night club on Monday when they tried to escape fumes from a crowd control spray used to break up a fight and were crushed behind blocked and locked doors, officials said...
...Witnesses said a fight broke out between two women, and a security guard used a crowd control agent, perhaps pepper spray, to break it up. Patrons began to flee the fumes and were told they had to exit down a steep front stairway....
I hold the government and their message of constant fear as the partial culprit. Aside from the people in the middle of the circle, I doubt most of the people panicking knew what was going on. Probably though "Holy shit! Terrorists!"
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