Dear Editor: As a peaceful participant (along with the other 99,600 State Street-goers), I thought the use of police pepper spray was ridiculous.
While trying to leave the 400 block of State Street, I got sprayed when I was legally leaving the bar at bar time and heading home just as the speakers told us to do. I had to run back in the bar like everyone else to escape this. I saw no attacks on police, their horses or any revolt against police except for maybe playful teasing.