MSU students Evan Dashe and Anthony Saladino have a message for the East Lansing Police Department, and they put it on a T-shirt.

Dashe, an accounting junior and Saladino, a general management freshman, decided to create and sell T-shirts about the April 2-3 disturbances in East Lansing.

The dark green shirts with white letters said, "Tear gas is not designed to extinguish fires." The shirts also had a derogatory message for the East Lansing Police Department on the back.

About 3,000 people took the streets of East Lansing after the men's basketball team lost to the University of North Carolina in the Final Four. About 30 tear-gas canisters were used by East Lansing police.

Saladino said he was most upset about the fact that results from the investigation about police actions that night will be released during finals week. Saladino said that's when students will be too busy to respond.

"Hopefully this will rile up students enough to show up to those meetings," Saladino said.

Dashe said he hoped the T-shirts would have a direct effect.

"Hopefully the police will see these shirts and realize how ridiculously they acted," he said.