You *can* get health insurance through a lot of colleges, especially state schools, but that doesn't mean that people do.
This seems like a pretty nasty overreaction to some protesters, but not knowing the Providence police I wouldn't put this past chalking it up as a couple officers freaking out a little too quickly. It's just incredibly fucked up that they managed to mangle her leg instead of just knocking her over.
I wonder if there's any good resource online about a riot that happened in my college town a couple years after I left, where the police both caused and fueled it... complete with tear gas.
― mh, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link