2004 Mardi Gras Riot and Its Immediate Aftermath
In 2004, police shut down parties hosted at Mustang Village, an apartment complex near Cal Poly. Additionally, a police helicopter patrolled over the Cedar Creek apartment complex, a location to which police had been called during past celebrations. (1) After the Mustang Village parties were closed down, an estimated five thousand people rioted, causing extensive property damage in the neighborhoods along California Boulevard. Police arrested close to two hundred partygoers and used crowd control weapons to break up the rioting crowds.(2)
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