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'Drunken debauchery': A look back at the '99 riot

He can still conjure up the acrid, bitter taste of the tear gas. He can still hear the police officers banging nightsticks against their shields. He can recall the glassy-eyed students cheering around 25-foot fires. And he remembers the feeling of anger and sadness that clung to him as he walked home the next morning. “I couldn’t believe it had been 20 years.”