Police Raid Music Festival in Utah

[ ](https://www.archive.org/download/unknownPoliceRiadpermittedmusicfestivalinUtah/fascism.mov) [Police Raid Music Festival in Utah](https://www.flickr.com/photos/69258677@N00/36597745/) Originally uploaded by [Insurgent](https://www.flickr.com/people/69258677@N00/). From [Metafilter](https://www.metafilter.com/mefi/44493): [Pump up the volume:](https://www.abc4.tv/local_news/local_headlines/story.aspx?content_id=9E880C47-B98E-4172-A5AE-9988C45CE8A7) Utah, 8/20/2005. A small [fully](https://www.utrave.org/showthread.php?t=20191&highlight=2005-11) [permitted](https://www.utrave.org/showthread.php?p=308526&highlight=2005-11#post308526) outdoor Drum and Bass gathering called “Versus 2″ was the scene of a [surreal amount of excessive force](https://www.buzzlife.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62975) and [tactics of cultural intimidation](https://www.utrave.org/showthread.php?t=20020). Approximately 60 armored, helmeted and camouflaged Utah County Sheriffs officers armed with Police dogs, Tasers, MP5 submachine guns, rifles, batons and tear gas stormed the DJ booth and the dance floor. Still and video camera operators were singled out for abuse, police violence and confiscation of image recording devices. At least one video clip has made it to the net, helping spread the news globally within the Electronic Dance Music community within 24 hours. (Video Links: please use the [torrents](https://indytorrents.org/torrents/utah_rave_raid.torrent?info_hash=ae63c5f4885000e9e26cc1fe908ddc47aa334e57) [here](https://fatbaron.com/videos.html) or randomly choose one server here ([1](https://www.vidking.com/viewvideo.php?id=615) [2](https://homepage.mac.com/apexgrin/FileSharing2.html) [3](https://www.utrave.org/media/fascism.mov) [4](https://www.utrave.org/media/fascism.wmv) [5](https://www.herbix.org/facism.wmv) [6](https://www.angrymobclan.com/facism.mov) [7](https://www.vrpro.net/freedom) ) to help spread out the bandwidth costs.) [Flashback to 6/31/2005 in the Czech Republic.](https://www.metafilter.com/mefi/44000) [Flashback to 70 years ago.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_Kids) More coverage: [Daily Kos](https://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/22/13030/7546) – [Utah Indymedia](https://utah.indymedia.org/news/2005/08/11330.php) – [Drug Policy Alliance](https://www.drugpolicy.org/news/82205utrave.cfm) – [Democracy Now](https://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/22/1433231) ([Audio](https://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2005/aug/audio/dn20050822.ra&proto=rtsp&start=1:27)) – [more](https://www.utrave.org/showthread.php?t=20170&page=1&pp=10).