Overwhelmed RCMP officers had their hands full responding to one particularly unruly Halloween gathering in B.C.’s Lower Mainland on Thursday – with an estimated 300 young people involved in the ruckus.
Mounties responded to 56 calls in the community of Mission that night, but some of the wildest came from a large gathering in the area of Albert McMahon Elementary School.
“Police received reports of various offences, including youth assaulting another youth, rocks being thrown at a car, fireworks being shot at cars, and fireworks being set off in the direction of buildings,” Mission RCMP said in a news release Friday.
While trying to break up the party, one officer was allegedly struck in the face and hand with a baton.
After another officer placed one of the youths into a cruiser, a group of partiers surrounded the vehicle, tried to open the doors, and “began kicking and spitting on …