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Casket gets knocked over at Bay Area funeral where massive family fight breaks out
SFgate ^ | Amy Graff | Aug. 10, 2022

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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To: Seruzawa

That area is mostly Hispanic, I think.


21 posted on 08/10/2022 11:16:31 AM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: nickcarraway

There’s a fine line between: “massive family fight” and “full-on chimp-out”.


22 posted on 08/10/2022 11:16:41 AM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

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.


23 posted on 08/10/2022 11:16:50 AM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: nickcarraway
during a funeral for an elderly woman in Richmond

I didn't need to read any more after that.

-PJ

24 posted on 08/10/2022 11:16:58 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: nickcarraway

Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!


25 posted on 08/10/2022 11:17:45 AM PDT by Clay Moore (Make Jan. 6 Ashli Babbitt Remembrance Day )
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To: dfwgator

What do they think this is? Ayatollah Khomeini’s funeral?


26 posted on 08/10/2022 11:18:59 AM PDT by xp38
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To: nickcarraway

Now I guess Chuck E. Cheese will cancel their reservation for the wake. Sad.


27 posted on 08/10/2022 11:18:59 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: nickcarraway

The driver also reportedly knocked over the casket, but Stonebraker said the body didn’t fall out.

This, this, is a memorable funeral.


28 posted on 08/10/2022 11:19:11 AM PDT by Flick Lives (FJB and the corrupt FBI)
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To: dfwgator

One of Buster Keaton’s family maybe?


29 posted on 08/10/2022 11:19:37 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: nickcarraway

TTIWWOV........................


30 posted on 08/10/2022 11:19:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: nickcarraway

Were any road runners in the vicinity?


31 posted on 08/10/2022 11:21:24 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: nickcarraway

InB4 NAXALT.


32 posted on 08/10/2022 11:21:46 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Hoes mad! LOL! )
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To: Flick Lives

Sounds like the standard Irish wake to me.


33 posted on 08/10/2022 11:22:15 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Emotions and tensions are very high at funnerals. Any thing can set things off...and often misunderstandings.


34 posted on 08/10/2022 11:24:49 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

My son was a funeral director for a while. You wouldn’t believe some of the stories. He could write a book.


35 posted on 08/10/2022 11:25:28 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Lurker

Queue Yakkity Sax.


36 posted on 08/10/2022 11:27:26 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: al baby

Haven’t heard that expression in 60 years.


37 posted on 08/10/2022 11:29:00 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: dfwgator

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.


38 posted on 08/10/2022 11:29:48 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

“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.


39 posted on 08/10/2022 11:30:39 AM PDT by Ueriah
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

I would totally buy that book. :)


40 posted on 08/10/2022 11:31:31 AM PDT by ZinGirl (Now a grandma ....can't afford a tagline :))
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