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Shots Fired at Fair Park's Kwanzaa Fest
MyFox Dallas/Ft. Worth ^
| 12/13/08
| MyFox Dallas
Posted on 12/13/2008 8:37:10 PM PST by babyfreep
Last Edited: Saturday, 13 Dec 2008, 9:35 PM CST Created: Saturday, 13 Dec 2008, 7:10 PM CST
Police were called out to Fair Park in Dallas Saturday after someone fired a gun into the crowd at Kwanzaa Fest.
Soon after the shooting the crowds started to get out of hand. Witnesses describe the scene as a riot. Several people were yelling at officers while others were reportedly throwing rocks at them.
Dallas police say around 3:30 p.m. a 15-year old boy shot. It's not clear whether he was involved in a crime or he was an innocent victim. Police were unable to located the shooter.
Police say they started the night with two crowd control units in place. Once the crowd problems started, police arrested three people, two for assault and one for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. The shooting victim was hospitalized and is expected to make a full recovery.
Officers dressed in riot gear and the mounted patrol was called out to help. Eventually there were 60 to 80 officers on scene.
TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: diversity; gangriot; kwanzaa; southdallas
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Kwanzaa festival at the fair park in south Dallas and there was a shooting??? Who'd a thunk it?
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posted on
12/13/2008 8:37:10 PM PST
by
babyfreep
To: babyfreep
Kwanzaa is the biggest horseshit holiday on the calendar..a day created by a violent gang member in his prison cell.
Fantastic.
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posted on
12/13/2008 8:38:50 PM PST
by
My Favorite Headache
(Forget the 3AM phone call. Obama can not even answer the phone at 3PM.)
To: babyfreep
To: babyfreep
I heard those Kwanzaa Fests can get pretty rowdy!
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posted on
12/13/2008 8:39:48 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(For more information on America's "new direction" read The Road to Serfdom. by Friedrich A. Hayek.)
To: My Favorite Headache
Diversity is wonderful......
Yea, right........
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posted on
12/13/2008 8:39:53 PM PST
by
9422WMR
(When seconds count, the cops are only minutes away.)
To: babyfreep
Is gunplay part of the rich traditions of Kawanza?
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posted on
12/13/2008 8:41:12 PM PST
by
Frantzie
To: My Favorite Headache
Add to that the fact that it is 100% racist.
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posted on
12/13/2008 8:41:15 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: babyfreep
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posted on
12/13/2008 8:41:54 PM PST
by
Dallas59
(Not My President)
To: Army Air Corps
Add to that the fact that it is 100% racist. It is, it's only celebrated by guilt-ridden white liberals.
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posted on
12/13/2008 8:42:25 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(I hate Illinois Marxists)
To: babyfreep
Dallas police say around 3:30 p.m. a 15-year old boy shot. It looks like someone who celebrates kwanzaa writes/proofreads the articles for this particular news department.
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posted on
12/13/2008 8:42:47 PM PST
by
Captainpaintball
(I 'aint to blame...I voted McCain!)
To: babyfreep
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posted on
12/13/2008 8:43:12 PM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
To: babyfreep
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posted on
12/13/2008 8:43:52 PM PST
by
Dallas59
(Not My President)
To: Dallas59
Kwanza is a rip off of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. They totally ripped off our Menorah and called it their own
To: babyfreep
On the first day of Kwanzaa
My true love said to me
"Aaack! I've been shot! Call 911!"
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posted on
12/13/2008 8:45:38 PM PST
by
Texas Eagle
(Who'll save the world from those who think only they can save it?. -- Ashleigh Brilliant)
To: babyfreep
That’s one pillar of Kwanzaa down, six to go.
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posted on
12/13/2008 8:46:03 PM PST
by
Texas Eagle
(Who'll save the world from those who think only they can save it?. -- Ashleigh Brilliant)
To: My Favorite Headache
LOL, you will be surprised on how many people in America thinks it is a Holiday. I told this to a group of co-workers and there happened to been a guy of color there. Of course he called me a racist...so I asked him if he knew how to use a computer. I told him to google it himself and he did. He was hesitant on apologizing to me, but I just called him a moron anyway.
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posted on
12/13/2008 8:53:05 PM PST
by
claymax
(Vote for a HERO...........not for the ZERO!)
To: My Favorite Headache
Yeah, but we have a nice celebration every year over by a community bazaar nearby my house during Kwanzaa. As much as I think the holiday’s a joke, I’m glad that there’s some idiot that’s wasting time and resources to make me free corn on the cob.
Happy Kwanzaa. Does anybody have a toothpick to remove the pieces of corn from my teeth?
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posted on
12/13/2008 8:54:28 PM PST
by
TypeZoNegative
(Pro life & Vegan because I respect all life, Republican because our enemies don't respect ours.)
To: babyfreep
festivus is as real as kwanzaa
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posted on
12/13/2008 8:55:02 PM PST
by
hecht
To: babyfreep
OMG I would never have thought such a thing could happen. Lots of urban blacks getting together. Thank God they didn’t hold it at a Wal-Mart, there could have been a stampede and more people crushed.
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posted on
12/13/2008 8:56:00 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: Dallas59
In 1990, Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price and his staff envisioned an expo that would help shape a better community through the seven Kwanzaa principles: Unity (Umoja), Self-determination (Kujichagulia), Collective Work and Responsibility (Ujima), Cooperative Economics (Ujamaa), Purpose (Nia), Creativity (Kuumba) and Faith (Imani). We wanted to raise the consciousness about understanding the meaning of life, explains Mr. Price. If we focus on enhancing the emancipation, education and enterprise of African American people through unity and collective work, we can significantly improve the quality of life for area residents.
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posted on
12/13/2008 8:59:59 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
(I'll go green when they plant me in the ground.)
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