Some revelers attending last month's Halloween festivities were captured not only by police officers, but also by police cameras.
The Madison Police Department released a DVD depicting crowd activity occurring primarily on the 500 block of State Street to the Wisconsin State Journal Friday.
The two hours of police video were recorded by a roof-top camera and were issued along with a 94-page chronology of the gathering.
The DVD includes radio transmissions between officers on the street and command staff during the escalation of aggressive activity, much of which took place after 2 a.m.
'Have them roll video tape in front of Qdoba,' an officer said in a radio report to the command post. 'I'm going to pull my unit out of here. It's too dangerous'the pushing and shoving. It's too much.'
Eventually, platoons of officers and mounted patrols were unsuccessful in thinning the crowd, and some people began shouting for pepper spray.
The video then shows lines of officers discharging canisters of pepper spray, called 'projecto jets,' as they walked shoulder-to-shoulder clearing the street.
