The scene was riotous and disturbing with some people climbing iron bars and several others running in opposite directions as if trying to escape from violent protest.
Despite the first lieutenants protest of the incompatibility of the two types of mooring lines, the shipyards riggers claimed they had no other lines available.
A letter of protest signed about 1500 artists, professionals, and other concerned citizens argued for civic freedoms and art as one sphere of freedom, incorrectness, difference.