Original sentence: Before long, thousands more people had gathered.Fifteen people sued the police department after the White Night Riots, but most of these suits were settled or dropped.However, rather than reinforcing the friends of Harvey Milk who were monitoring the riots, police proceeded to beat them with night sticks.Police Department leadership, which was used to seeing docile homosexuals walking quietly into paddy wagons during bar raids, were shocked by the idea of an angry gay crowd screaming for blood.The “Twinkie” defense was presented by a psychiatrist to the jury, stating that too much refined sugar (the type of sugar found in “junk food”) can cause depression and that White may have acted irrationally as a subsequent result of his eating copious amounts of foods containing refined sugars.When Police Chief Charles Gain heard about the Elephant Walk raid, which he had not authorized, he immediately went down to the location, where he ordered his men to leave.When the crowd from the Castro merged with another crowd from the Polk neighborhood, another predominantly gay district of San Francisco, the battle against San Francisco police began
Edited sentence: However, the officers, who may not have realized that they were holding back the crowd, instead beat them with night sticks.It has also been stated that the refined sugars present in White's diet preceding the killings may have actually fueled the depression as well.Police Department leadership, which was unaccustomed to an angry gay crowd, wasn't sure how to handle the situation.The copious amounts of junk food White consumed are cited as a symptom of his mental state.The “Twinkie” defense was presented by a psychiatrist to the jury, stating that White had a diminished capacity due to depression.When Police Chief Charles Gain heard about the Elephant Walk raid, which he had not authorized, he immediately went down to the location and ordered his men to leave