October 30th, 2009 Thurman Circle - Unlawful Assembly

On the night of October 30th, 2009 several young people were attending several house parties in the area of Thurman Circle, in London Ontario. Residents of this neighbourhood are predominately college students who rent and share single detached homes with other students. However, there are still homes in this area occupied by families with young children. Shortly after midnight, it appears the occupants from several smaller adjacent house parties came out onto the street and began to party on the street. Soon the street was blocked by partying young people. Two vehicles approached this crowd and came to a stop as the street was impassible. The crowd swarmed the vehicles and began to violently rock the vehicles as thought the vehicles were going to roll over. A call went out to police for assistance. Upon arrival of the first police unit, officers were repelled by members of the crowd throwing beer bottles, full cans of beer, paving stones from driveways and spindles from a citizen's front porch railing that were smashed out. Twenty two people were subsequently arrested for Unlawful Assembly and face criminal charges. Police video taped the crowd from a distance prior to making arrests. However, a video was also taken by a member of the crowd prior to police arrival. This video has been posted on a social networking site. Police have since come into possession of this video. The following video displays the faces of active participants in this unlawful assembly. We are asking anyone who can identify any participant depicted in this video to call Crime Stoppers and provide the name of the participant. Please describe in detail; at what portion of the video the person is depicted, what they are wearing, what they look like, and the actions they are engaged in. Putting a name to these participants will further this police investigation and hold people accountable for their behavior. An Unlawful Assembly occurs when 3 or more people meet (in any place), and while together, one or more of those persons begin to act in a manner that causes persons in that neighbourhood to fear that the assembly will disturb the peace tumultuously, or, that members of the assembly will provoke other persons to disturb the peace tumultuously. This is a criminal offence that entails arrest, bail, and a criminal record upon conviction.