Posted on 08/06/2011 5:41:29 AM PDT by markomalley
Unprecedented violence on the opening night of the Wisconsin State Fair by rampaging youths prompted extraordinary measures Friday: The head of the fair implemented new rules to keep unattended teens off the grounds at night, and Gov. Scott Walker ordered the State Patrol to help keep order.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and Police Chief Ed Flynn, meanwhile, promised Friday to beef up policing at this weekend's major public events around the city to limit any chance of the State Fair events being repeated.
The violence left workers and patrons of the fair in West Allis shaken and reminded many of the mob-like disturbances that occurred over the Fourth of July weekend in Milwaukee.
The trouble at the fair started around 7 p.m. Thursday in the midway area, where amusement rides are located, when fights broke out among black youths, said Tom Struebing, chief of the State Fair Police. Those fights did not appear to be racially motivated.
Then around the closing time of 11 p.m., witnesses told the Journal Sentinel, dozens to hundreds of black youths attacked white people as they left the fair, punching and kicking people and shaking and pounding on their vehicles.
At least 31 people were arrested - many for disorderly conduct - in connection with the incidents on the fairgrounds and on the streets outside. At least 11 people, seven of them police officers, were injured, officials said. Twenty-four people were arrested within the fairgrounds by State Fair Police. West Allis police arrested seven people, five of them juveniles, outside the fairgrounds.
Struebing said two injured officers were hospitalized; one was hit in the face with an improvised weapon, the other suffered a concussion.
"We normally can handle anything in the park," Struebing said.
Because of the violence, Rick Frenette, CEO of the fair, announced that the fair would immediately implement a policy in which no youths under 18 years of age would be allowed onto the grounds after 5 p.m. without a parent or guardian at least 21 years old.
Frenette, a veteran of 40 years in fair management, said he had never implemented such a policy before.
Walker made the decision to provide extra State Patrol help after reviewing the incidents, said his spokesmen, Cullen Werwie.
"We will continue to evaluate the situation and make any adjustments necessary to ensure a successful and safe event. We will be doing everything in our power to ensure that parents feel that it is safe to bring their children to the world's best fair," Werwie said in a statement.
West Allis Mayor Dan Devine said in a statement that "thuggery has no place at the Wisconsin State Fair, or anywhere in our society."
Devine said he was disgusted by the reports of violence. "It is appalling that a group of hoodlums has cast such a negative light on what is traditionally a safe and family friendly event," he said in a statement.
Barrett said there would be no tolerance for violence at festivals and that perpetrators will be prosecuted - regardless of race.
"Two years ago, I was a victim of a random attack (outside) State Fair .?.?. last night, events took place at State Fair that I don't believe are random," Barrett said at a City Hall news conference. The attack by a man wielding a tire iron left Barrett with stitches in his head, broken teeth and broken bones in his right hand. On Friday, security started setting up extra metal fencing at entrances around 5 p.m.
Patrice Harris, communications manager for the State Fair, said identification will be checked at each gate in the area where bags are searched. She said the time spent checking for identification shouldn't affect the time spent waiting in line before getting into the fair.
At Gate 3, at least 70 people had their IDs checked within the first hour. All appeared to be minors without guardians.
Jeremy Chavez, Anthony Henderson and Anthony DeHoyas, all 16, were among those stopped.
"I didn't know about the adult thing," Chavez said, although he had heard that IDs would be checked. Henderson and DeHoyas were also taken by surprise.
DeHoyas, who was celebrating his birthday Friday, was upset at being turned away and said he doesn't plan to come back.
He called his mother, who came to the fair to supervise the three teenagers.
Police from three jurisdictions - West Allis, Milwaukee and Wisconsin State Fair - spent Friday trying to piece together what happened. But they could not say what started the situation.
Witnesses, though, told the Journal Sentinel that the attacks appeared to be unprovoked and racially motivated.
"You could just tell they were after white people. That was the main thing. If you were white, they were coming after you," said Jon Stikl of Oak Creek.
He said he was stuck in traffic as a group of young people blocked cars near the fair gate on S. 84th St. near I-94 after he picked up family members attending the fair.
"We noticed a group of five to 10 young black males run up and jump a young white male for no other reason then him being white," Stikl said.
They knocked him to the ground, and then a group of 15 black men kicked and stomped on him, Stikl said.
"My wife's brother jumped out of the car - his natural reaction was to try to break it up. Before you knew it, five or 10 guys were on him and started punching at him. My wife was able to pull him back in the car. So now they surrounded my car and just started punching through the windows, kicking and shaking the car, screaming racial things."
He said there should have been more police presence, given that disturbances were reported inside the fairgrounds shortly after 7 p.m. Thursday.
"I was disgusted by the lack of security. It's a black eye on the State Fair" and police, he said.
Andrew J. Coleman, a recent University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee graduate, said he and a friend were attacked about 10:30 p.m. after they left the fair through the gate off S. 84th near the Pettit National Ice Center.
"I just heard footsteps behind me and I turned around and I got hit in the face. There were six or seven just beating on me," said Coleman, who has a sore jaw from the punches.
His friend was stomped on and his sneakers stolen, said Coleman, of Milwaukee.
A concession worker who works near the midway area told the Journal Sentinel that earlier Thursday night, large groups of African-American youths ran through the midway, knocking over young children and adults, disrupting midway amusement rides and tearing signs up. The midway is east of the Pettit National Ice Center and adjacent to the Hank Aaron State Trail.
"I have never seen anything like it," the worker said. "It was mob mentality."
The worker said there was police presence, including officers on horseback, but it was not enough.
A 34-year-old Muskego man said he was riding on the Ferris wheel in the midway with one of his children when he heard shouts of "fight" sometime after 7 p.m. He saw a big group of people, perhaps 200 to 300, gathered around a brawl.
"I've never seen anything like this in my life. .?.?. There were so many people you couldn't see who was fighting. There was just this big group that kept growing and chanting, 'Fight, fight, fight,'?" he said. "That lasted for one to two minutes. Then when security showed up blowing some whistles, all of this mob started running. It was like a herd of cattle."
Milwaukee Common Council President Willie Hines said he was at the fair Thursday night and witnessed blacks fighting each other, but did not see any blacks attack whites.
He said that if it happened, those individuals should be charged with the crime as well as a hate crime.
"They should be penalized for the prime incident, and we should have a racial enhancer," Hines said.
Although some fairgoers were critical of police response, Hines said State Fair police acted appropriately and professionally.
"They were working hard to control the chaos," Hines said.
He said some coordination problems with other police departments might have happened outside the grounds.
The Wisconsin State Fair is in different jurisdictions. The north side of the fairgrounds, from the Hank Aaron State Trail north, is in Milwaukee. The rest is in West Allis. Adding to the confusion is that the Wisconsin State Fair Park police have jurisdiction only on the fairgrounds, not outside of it.
The incidents Thursday night come as the State Fair Board has worked to increase diversity at the annual fair, expanding its entertainment lineup and attempting to appeal to a younger, more multicultural audience. Diversity was a priority for former State Fair Park Chairman Martin Greenberg, who spoke of making it a "place of inclusion, not exclusion."
The violence is similar to what occurred in Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood over the July 4 holiday, when about 60 young people beat and robbed a smaller group that had been watching fireworks from Kilbourn Reservoir Park. The injured people were white; the attackers were African-American, witnesses said. Another group looted a convenience store.
Thursday night's Main Stage performer was rapper MC Hammer, but a number of people who attended the concert said the show wasn't to blame for the disturbances at the fair. One woman said the crowd watching Hammer was mostly white and adult, and any children there seemed to be with parents.
Another woman said the concert was "very laid-back and had no craziness that we witnessed at all. The craziness was in the midway."
If states were intelligent and less politically correct, they would have state fair venues as far away from black population centers as possible.
“I’m surprised we haven’t seen some severe rioting in inner city slums this summer, YET.”
Those riots were often just a cover for lotting; at this point the people who have to work in or pass through the urban reservations know to secure any valuables. There is nothing left for them to steal, so there will be no riots.
Somebody pointed out that these were happening in non-black areas; they’ve picked the reservations clean, and now go out along the frontier in raiding parties.
The vanguard of Obama’s domestic “peace” force.
Interestingingly enough, this is Wisconsin. A message had to be sent, don’t you know.
A notice should be posted that fairgoers will be allowed to defend themselves againsyt any such provocation by all means necessary.
This is a family event. This hoods were endangering women and children.
And it was racially motivated. This is deliberately happening more and more. Wake up.
Entitlement? Yes. Rage? No.
The recent incidents in Milwaukee were not done out of rage....this is entertainment to these animals.
One common theme linking the three incidents that have happened since July 3 - the mobs gathered in ever-increasing size because the kids were able to communicate via cel phone.
Now I have to ask....if this were the act of people of desperate poverty - how can they afford cel phones? Where did they get the money for bus fair (State Fair Park isn't necessarily near the 'hood) and entry to the Fair?
The other thing that is driving it is that they know rules and laws don't matter. After years of being tapped on the wrist when they should have been knocked on their keesters, this group realizes there is absolutely no teeth in the systems that are supposed to punish such behavior.
“Fairs should have Country and Western, Bluegrass and Folk music to discourage this sort of patron. It is a FAIR after all.”
Good idea. Many fairs already do that.
Best solution (for the “Midway”):
Put up speakers and play a steady stream of classical music (yes, classical). “Yutes” will not congregate where this kind of music is played.
It’s actually how at least one municipality responded to groups of yutes hanging around bus stops, etc. Once the speakers were put up and classical piped in, the yutes quickly moved off to somewhere else....
Just sayin’...
If you see any group of black "yutes" running somewhere (group meaning more than one), run the other way and get out of there as soon as possible.
That is dumb, really dumb as not allowing teens unaccompanied by a parent to enter. The young are the midway customers. No kids, no midway.
The blacks have won. they have destroyed the Fair. It is purposeful retribution towards the governor. They will destroy the state before they allow the progressive movement to languish.
Whats a law abiding citizen to do? If a white person defends himself against a mob of angry black youths, he’ll probably get charged with a hate crime!
DU is in full tin-foil-hat mode.
It is kind of surprising that West Allis, which is basically an extension of Milwaukee, is the host to the State Fair grounds.
One has to realize, though, that State Fair Park has been there for a very very long time. (My husband thinks it goes back to the 1880's)
I have lived here all my life and the Milwaukee Metro area was once a very different place. I don't shop very often, but going to the mall near me (located in what was and still is one of the most lily-white relatively well-off suburbs in the area), I feel like I am a stranger in a different country.
I would tie this back to the SEIU. Full-blown ad blitz on TV, Radio and Newspapers. Tell every voter in wisconsin that this is what will happen if the recall goes through.
Then I would take this nationwide show the Philly voter intimidation. Show Holders lack of interest.
Wrap it in a nice, neat package.
Video tape of several of these flash mob attacks accompanied by a voice-over of Obama saying that would make a very clear and succinct campaign commercial. No Republican has the guts to put it out, but some political group should.
So to summarize: these poor disenfransifed black youths were systemically profiled by racist
state fair personnel and called in the police to restore order
They were forced by abide by normal culturally boundaries by being asked to act like white people and retaliated by attacking and assaulting innocent white people and venting their rage
This is nothing compared to what it will be like after Bambi loses...
“Little is known what happens to the arrested participants in these seemingly disparate incidents.”
The obuma thugs that had a “wilding” in Columbia, South Carolina, are facing 20 years in prison under the state’s anti-lynching law. In addition, the SC supreme court has greatly expanded shooter’s targets in the state’s Castle Doctrine.
The people getting attacked in liberal cities need to read what some states in the south are doing to confront obuma’s thugs.
Nice Summary
Check out the Smoking Gun for “Beat Whitey Night” at the Iowa State Fair.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/beat-whitey-night-iowa-state-fair
I lived in Myrtle Beach for a few years. The city of MB cancelled “Harley Week” at Memorial Day weekend which brought in millions for the city with very little violence at all except for a few drunks fighting. All in all the people of the city welcomed them because they were civilized people who spent a hell of alot of money in MB and left the city the way that they found it when they departed after a week of fun and partying. But because of a few small complaints the PC city council decided to cancel it. Made me want to puke because I used to ride and party with them.
Now, just to the north is the city of Atlantic Beach, SC. They hold black bike week (all Jap riceburner bikes)the week after (the former) Harley week in Myrtle Beach just to the south. Every year it is the same thing: blacks destroying everything that they can, especially private property. They would p1ss and deficate in the streets and people’s yards. Fornification in public was treated like a contest with people clapping. They would come down to MB just to destroy the place because they knew that the residents of MB did not want them there because of their vile behavior. The city of MB had to hire 300 extra policemen just to handle these POS. They would smash store windows, rob people, shootings and muggings were a common occurance. They would throw all of their garbage in the streets instead of in dumpsters or garbage cans. It’s clear what they were doing.
A friend of mine was the manager of a restaraunt in MB,(I won’t name it) but one of the waitresses was a 75 year old white woman. I forgot her name but my friend Rick (the manager) told me that the blacks that came in to eat were calling her “whitey”. Hey “whitey”, go get me some more toast”. Hey “whitey”, go get me some more coffee”. They treated this woman like she wasn’t even human. They never even left a tip if they payed the bill at all. The MO was for so many blacks to flood a restaraunt that the staff could not keep up with them. The result, half of them snuck out the door without paying, not to mention destroying the restrooms. Only the most vile, most uncivilized, most disgusting and racist people would act that to a city that used to open it’s doors to them for maybe 40 years or so. I’m guessing how long this annual event had been going on but I’m sure some local SC Freepers can chime in and confirm alot of what I am saying especially what “black biker week” did to the city of MB. It got to the point that alot of merchants would actually close their doors and lock them down for the whole week just to be sued by the NAACLP.
http://www.topix.com/forum/atlanta/TKLTU37QJ7Q3Q4AIK
(read this one)
Google: “black bike week”, “freaknic atlanta”
Another event that happened was with a woman that owned a boutique. I did not know her personally but my friend Rick told me about it since merchants around the area all know each other. Anyways, about 10 black women came in to this boutique to look at bathing suits. Here is the sickening part. The black women tried on as many bathing suits as they could. They actually p1ssed in half of them and then threw all of the bathing suits in a pile and then they all left. God knows what all they stole.
One more link for you to show your their savage behavior:
Semper Fi’
to all civilized people
“What is going on in the black culture that influences this mob mentality?”
Decivilization. Raising children without a code of civility and kindness. Keeping it “real,” which effectively means expressing every negative emotion in public. Living like this for only two generations gives you animals, very smart feral humans.
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