I thought a food fight was a food fight, but I guess it is now just a "bad choice, bad judgement" prank.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,277493,00.html

Having witnessed a food fight at the Morris Center at BYU when I was a freshman many years ago (the culprits waited until me and my room mate had moved from ground zero to visit the potato bar before they let loose), I don't think I would consider it a prank... funny and juvenile and disgusting all at the same time and perhaps on the level of vandalism, but certainly not a prank.  I don't believe BYU ever positively ID'd the culprits (well, cuz they were from my dorm floor and I think I ended up seeing all the guys from the floor in the MTC several months later that fall)

Not dismissing the seriousness of the incident, but I wonder if it would be getting as much attention and fallout if a police officer had not been injured in the aftermath.  You have one instigator charged with felony resisting arrest, another with probably inciting a riot and disorderly conduct, and another with assault.  Why not some vandalism and destruction of property too?