The riot began. Workers singled out for beating boys with the longest hair. The weapons of choice were their orange and yellow hard hats. A construction worker recalled, “The whole group started singing ‘God Bless America’ and it damn near put a lump in your throat…. I could never say I was sorry I was there. You just had a very proud feeling. If I live to be one hundred, I don’t think I’ll ever live to see anything quite like that again.” A student recalled, “When I was on the ground, I rolled myself into a ball just as four or five pairs of construction boots started kicking me.”
