During the last hour of the city’s first Halloween party to end peacefully in five years, drunken revelers who had been chanting “we want tear gas” seemed to lose their edge and mellow as they petted the police horses that stood among them.
Initially, the mounted Capitol Police officers seemed to further incite an already rebellious crowd as they strode through a mosh pit on the 500 block of State Street shortly before 2 a.m. Daylight Savings Time.