Posted on 08/10/2022 11:04:31 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A massive brawl broke out between up to 20 family members during a funeral for an elderly woman in Richmond on Aug. 6, leading to one injury, one arrest and $20,000 in damage, officials said.
The Richmond Police Department said it responded to the Rolling Hills Memorial Park at 1:30 p.m. after several reports of a "chaotic altercation" between eight to 20 family members who were reportedly armed.
Sgt. Aaron Pomeroy said it was an instance of family drama that started between a brother and a sister who were attending their mother's funeral and who do not get along — and "it goes back many years."
The brother and sister sister were talking and got into an argument, when her boyfriend came over and encouraged her to walk away, Pomeroy said.
"The brother started beating on the boyfriend, and that's when it escalated and it became a brawl and we started to get calls," he said.
At some point during the physical fight, the brother got into the vehicle with the intention of driving over his sister, Pomeroy said.
"He attempted to drive toward his sister in an aggressive way, but instead he struck another female and sent her to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries," he said. The victim is 33 years old.
In the car, the brother also damaged the grass, knocked over and damaged headstones and vases, and broke a water main that ejected copious amounts of water and flooded the funeral plot, Lt. Matt Stonebraker, a spokesperson for the department, said.
The driver also reportedly knocked over the casket, but Stonebraker said the body didn't fall out.
When the brother got out of the car, a family member hit him in the head with a cane, injuring him, Pomeroy said.
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That area is mostly Hispanic, I think.
There’s a fine line between: “massive family fight” and “full-on chimp-out”.
What was the race of the black people who caused this ruckus?
I think they may identify as white which is why these new ideas for self identification are dumb.
I didn't need to read any more after that.
-PJ
Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!
What do they think this is? Ayatollah Khomeini’s funeral?
Now I guess Chuck E. Cheese will cancel their reservation for the wake. Sad.
The driver also reportedly knocked over the casket, but Stonebraker said the body didn’t fall out.
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This, this, is a memorable funeral.
One of Buster Keaton’s family maybe?
TTIWWOV........................
Were any road runners in the vicinity?
InB4 NAXALT.
Sounds like the standard Irish wake to me.
Emotions and tensions are very high at funnerals. Any thing can set things off...and often misunderstandings.
My son was a funeral director for a while. You wouldn’t believe some of the stories. He could write a book.
Queue Yakkity Sax.
Haven’t heard that expression in 60 years.
I remember that 3 Stooges episode. The cook is busy on the prep table. He gazes up at a glass globe light fixture on the ceiling as it is quickly filling up with water.
Next scene: the filled up glass globe ‘explodes’.
Frightened cook, now drenched with water, runs out of the kitchen; “Lord have mercy!”
All this, the result of Curly and Larry working as OTJ Plumbers one floor above. The water pipes. They are leaking.
“What was the race of the black people who caused this ruckus?”
Notice that they don’t even mention the NAMES of the people responsible, because they know people will google the names and go “oh not this shit again”.
YELLOW JOURNALISM.
I would totally buy that book. :)
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