Students at University of Southern California (USC) are calling the incident of police officers responding to break-up a college party, racial profiling.
Early Saturday morning, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) responded to a noise complaint at an African-American USC student party.
According to Neon Tommy, USC's student newspaper, LAPD officer Carlyle and his partner were the first to show up at the party. Officer Carlyle initially asked the DJ to turn off the amplified sound.
The DJ did as the cops asked, but when the DJ began making shout-outs over the microphone the two responding officers began to shut the party down. When party-goers refused to leave, officer Carlyle dispatched a help call and within one hour 79 officers - some in riot gear - from five Los Angeles police divisions had arrived on the scene.
LAPD told Neon Tommy that the riot squad was called to assist in shutting the party down because there were about 400 students at the party and some students had thrown beer bottles at the officers. Students say bottles were never thrown at the officers.
Lamar Gary, a student who attended the party, posted two videos on YouTube. In one of the videos he says "I want you to witness ... LAPD right now. We were having fun at a college party. No one had a gun, it was straight up college students. IDs were checked at this party. No one had a gun. And there are 79 LAPD officers right now. I want you to realize there are 79 LAPD officers right now."
Six students were arrested that night and one LAPD officer was hospitalized for minor injuries, according to Neon Tommy. Nate Howard, among the six arrested, told ABC that most of the students were leaving but the police came at the students "with excessive force pushing all of us out."
According to eye witnesses, the party was across the street from a predominantly Caucasian party that was not shut down.
"Our party was predominately Caucasian students and their party was predominately black students and basically they didn't stop our party at all. They had no problem with us," student Sarah Tither-Kaplan said told CBS.
All of the six students arrested have been released either on bail or their own recognizance.
