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Jeff Flock: 'Not a fun time' at Ohio State
COLUMBUS, Ohio (CNN) -- Investigators were looking to make more arrests Monday in connection with the rowdy celebrations that followed a weekend victory by the Ohio State football team. After the Buckeyes beat Michigan on Saturday, crowds around the university campus got out of hand. Police fired tear gas after cars were overturned and burned, bonfires were set and an attempt was made to loot a bookstore. CNN Correspondent Jeff Flock surveyed the damage Monday morning and described it to CNN Anchor Bill Hemmer. FLOCK: (I'm at) the scene of the crime here this morning -- this is 13th Street. ... Take a look at it: broken glass knocked out of windows. ... This was the scene of one of the fires. I want to take you to those pictures from (Sunday), and these pictures are what university officials are looking at today. Because what they want to do, in addition to about 50 arrests that they already made, they want to find other people who are responsible. If they can (identify) anybody in these TV pictures and other home video they're getting access to, they want to go ahead and charge them as well. The university president said she will be very tough on anybody that participated. In some ways, nobody is tougher than the students themselves on themselves. This is the school paper this morning -- "Thugs and Alcohol" is the headline -- and this paper is decrying the behavior of their fellow students. So it's not a fun time. And of course (during) that national title game, January 3, there will be police out in force in the town that day. (Ohio State will play for the NCAA championship in the Fiesta Bowl in Tempe, Arizona, on January 3.) HEMMER: Jeff, what is your measure quickly here? Was this all spontaneous? FLOCK: Well, pretty much. As the university itself said and as the headline said, alcohol fueled all of this. Right after the game there weren't a lot of problems; (it) was much later, about midnight, when all this started to kick off, and then all hell broke loose.
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