it s a sunny day filled with west indian pride, dancing, food and colorful costumes. a lot of people, a lot of trucks. a lot of cops. costumes. a really colorful day. like any color in the crayola box was there. akeisha has been a masquerader and steel pan player in the parade for the past six years. dressed in a lime green headpiece and jeweled bikini, she is working her way down the parade route when she spots an officer on the side of the street. had like an inviting facial reaction so i just danced with him. i was basically whining with the officer, they call it whining in the caribbean. it s like moving your waistline in a circular motion. he didn t move. he was positioned, standing straight, his arms were down and i came and i just came and danced on him and even when i was leaving him, he just stood
but watching from the sidelines, wong is sure this is no normal basketball game. it wasn t a matter of if there was going to be a matter. it was a matter of of when there was going to be a fight. it isn t long before wong s premonition comes true. the game is tied at 64-64 in the fourth quarter when georgetown s team captain jason clark gets in an altercation with two players from the rockets that ends with him on the ground. i heard a whistle blow and i saw jason clark on the ground. they started pushing each other. right there both benches pretty much simultaneously emptied. the floor erupts into chaos as both teams rush to enter the fray. players started picking up chairs, plastic chairs that were on the side of the court. there were chairs being thrown. cameras rolling on the sidelines capture dozens of violent exchanges. there was one player, aaron bowen, a georgetown player who was thrown to the ground and being hit repeatedly by a
tensions, thors feelings are not abnormal. watching from the sidelines, wong is sure this is no normal basketball game. there wasn t a matter of if there was going to be a fight, but when there is a fight. it isn t long before wong s premonition comes true. the game is tied at 64-64 in the fourth quarter when jason clark gets in an altercation with two players from the rockets that ends with him on the ground. i heard a whistle blow and i saw jason clark on the ground. they started pushing each other. both benches simultaneously emptied. the floor erupts into chaos as both teams rush to enter the fray. players started picking up chairs, plastic chairs that were on the side of the court. there were chairs being thrown. cameras rolling on the sidelines capture dozens of violent exchanges. there was one player, aaron bowen, a georgetown player who was thrown to the ground and
was thrown to the ground and being hit repeatedly by a chinese player. bowen was saved when his teammate races across the court and tackles the chinese player, sending him head first into a chair, which another georgetown player then picks up and swings at his head. your instincts are to protect yourself, protect your teammates and i think that s all we were trying to do is protect our selves and protect our teammates. you can see chinese players with chairs in their hands looking for someone to throw it at. most sports fights, one punch and it s over. but this is far from your average local sports brawl with much more at stake. realizing joe biden was in town for talks in china, economic talks, that was when it clicked that, boy, this is something much more than a basketball game that got out of hand. this could be an international incident. coaches and officials are able to separate the teams in less than two minutes, but the bad behavior spreads to the fans. as you r
sidelines, wong is sure this is no normal basketball game. there wasn t a matter of if there was going to be a fight, but when there is a fight. it isn t long before wong s premonition comes true. the game is tied at 64-64 in the fourth quarter when georgetown s team captain jason clark gets into an altercation with two rockets that ends with him on the ground. i heard a whistle blow and i saw jason clark on the court. they started pushing each other. both benches simultaneously emptied. the floor erupts into chaos as both teams rush to enter the fray. players started picking up chairs, plastic chairs that were on the side of the court. there were chairs being thrown. cameras rolling on the sidelines capture dozens of violent exchanges. there was one player, aaron bowen, a georgetown player, being thrown to the ground and being hit repeatedly by a chinese player.