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Melee breaks out at Good Time Emporium with 200 people jumping in the fray
Somerville - Just after 7 p.m. Easter, Somerville police responded to reports of “an out of control melee” at the Good Time Emporium on Sturtevant Street, according to reports. Police said as many as 200 people had begun rioting inside the amusement center and sports bar, and several of them were armed with baseball bats and knives.

One responding officer, James McNally, said in his report he arrived to find tables and chairs flying in every direction, and fights breaking out in all corners of the building. McNally said police tried several times to evacuate the building.
“We were running around trying to break up each new altercation that erupted,” McNally wrote in his report of the incident.

Somerville Officer James Slattery: “I made my way into the crowd, and there was a lot of pushing and shoving. I requested every available unit to be sent to assist.” Somerville Housing Authority police, State Police and Tufts University cops all came to assist.

During the chaos, McNally said a woman approached him and told him someone had threatened her with a knife. The woman identified 17-year-old Regina Hunter, of 119 Highland Ave., Randolph, as the one who had waived a knife at her earlier in the brawl.

Hunter attempted to leave, McNally’s report states, but she was stopped by a Good Time Employee and a state trooper. Officers, who finally had to pepper spray her in order to cuff her. The found a 6-7-inch pocket knife in her coat during a subsequent search.

“We were being verbally threatened, harassed and physically intimidated,” McNally wrote in his report. “[We] had to resort to swinging our expandable batons around to keep the crowd from physically coming at us.”

Reade Armstrong, 18, of 37 Sycamore St., Roslindale, also had to be pepper-sprayed in order for police to subdue him. He was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, as was 17-year-old Kwmaine Davis, of 94 Crawford St., Dorchester.