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GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — Police fired rubber bullets to break up a crowd of 1,000 people near a university campus who burned couches, tore down street signs and pelted officers with rocks, bricks and bottles.
There were no arrests after the four-hour riot that started late Saturday near the University of North Colorado and continued for four hours.
Two police officers were slightly injured, including one who was hit on the head with a 40-ounce beer bottle, as officers in riot gear marched down the street and fired tear gas, police Sgt. John Gates said. He said no one else was injured.
“It’s really the first weekend in many months that it’s been suitable to involve themselves in outside parties,” Gates said. “Nice weather and the school year coming to the end. We don’t know of any real reason why this happened.”
Gates had initially denied television reports that police fired rubber bullets at rioters, but later said officers needed them to control the crowd.
Police sent to investigate a report of a loud party were met by a crowd of about 500 people, Gates said. Other people from nearby parties joined the crowd and revelers set about 10 fires in a six-block area.
The rioting did not end until shortly after 3 a.m. Sunday.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The man accused of the 1998 slaying of a Buffalo abortion doctor says he has no money and has asked for a public defender to represent him.
In a letter to state and federal court authorities in Erie County, James Kopp asked for lawyers and a taxpayer-funded budget to investigate the charges against him, The Buffalo News reported in Friday’s editions.
“He has no money at all, and it’s going to cost a million dollars to defend this case,” John Broderick, a lawyer who recently talked to Kopp in his French prison cell, told the newspaper.
Kopp was arrested in March in France after spending more than two years as one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives. He is awaiting extradition.
Broderick, himself an abortion opponent, told the newspaper that Kopp can’t afford to check on witness accounts that put him in Dr. Barnett Slepian’s neighborhood before the doctor was shot in October 1998. Broderick said Kopp did not shoot Slepian.
Broderick said he has represented Kopp, an activist known in anti-abortion circles as “The Atomic Dog,” in the past and considers him a friend.
Erie County District Attorney Frank Clark, whose office would try Kopp in state court on a second-degree murder charge, told the newspaper he has received Kopp’s request for counsel.