“I am extremely disappointed, I might even say angered,” Dr. Howard Rundle said during a news conference Monday morning. “We will expel students convicted of criminal behaviour.”
Rundle, during his first public address following the weekend’s violence, said the school would expel students convicted of criminal behaviour.
The Saturday night melee on Fleming Drive, a student enclave in the city’s east end notorious for student parties and occasional vandalism, drew a crowd of about 1,000 people and saw an estimated $100,000 in damage.
About 65 police officers in riot gear and 10 firefighters arrived at the scene late Saturday night. The crowd of people, some of them college students, flipped and torched a CTV News van and hurled beer bottles at police cruisers. Seventeen police vehicles were damaged.
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No one was injured, but London police Chief Brad Duncan said during a Sunday news conference that someone could have been killed if the violence had escalated.
Police arrested 11 people at the scene, seven of them Fanshawe students.
“We will not have those people as students of this college,” Rundle said during his first public address since the violence, adding that the riot has detracted from the school’s reputation.
The school has begun its own investigation to determine which students were involved in the riot. The school has set up an email account for people to submit any tips, photos or video of the riot.
Meanwhile, others have taken to Facebook to help identify those responsible for Saturday night’s damage.
Rundle urged the community not to partake in vigilantism, but to submit tips to both Fanshawe College and the police.
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