the first thing i remember was seeing a buddy of mine, a sergeant bill bognor, who was an administrative sergeant and used to work in my district, and now he's at the academy, and he was sprayed in the face with bear mace. i told him it was me, and he stretched out his hand to shake mine, and that's when he told me the guys beyond that set of double doors had been fighting there for, i believe he said about 30 minutes. i don't think he realized what time it was because they had been fighting since around 1:00 p.m. it was 3:00, and those guys had been fighting for two hours unrelieved. i remember looking up through the set of double doors. there's glass panes. you could see the gas, the white powder, still lingering in the air. it was then i realized i probably should have brought my gas mask. i went through the doors and i saw ramey kyle, who was at the time with our criminal investigations, overseeing detective units. like many officers, sergeants, lieutenants, captains that day, he self deployed and found himself commanding a group of about 30 or 40 officers there in the lower west ter