For my primary source I found a quote from a police man that was there and trying to keep everything under control. This police officer said that "it was a situation that we didn't know how we were going to be able control." This whole riots and the one to follow caught the police and everyone else off guard. The police thought that it was going to be a normal raid on a gay bar and they would not have to deal with much fighting back. Little did they know that the crowd of people outside of the inn would grow to around 2000 people, according to another primary source. The police were overwhelmed and no one can blame them when all the men thought it was going to be a normal night.