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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A friend of ours had her entire house cleaned out while she was at her father’s funeral. Ordinary burglars, though, not relatives or friends (probably). I’d never go to any event like a wedding or a funeral now without leaving someone on watch in our house.
Sounds like the standard Irish wake to me.Only if the corpse got up and got into the fight.
they are all on a hair trigger…against each other, anybody who they think “disrespects” them in any way,When there is no higher authority -- God, law, ethics, morals, government, even -- individuals take judgment into their own hands.
We probably will never know the ethnicity, as the gave nothing from which to even try to determine that.
I was mainly responding to the immediate assumptions on the thread that it was black folks, when the area is 90% other ethnicities.
the Irish ballad “Steve O’Donnell’s Wake” has a similar incident.
Mike McGovern said of Steve
he was an awful bum
Of course he only meant it
For a joke
But Paddy Mack got up his back
And he made McGovern run
Cause he hit him in the eye
An awful poke
They all joined in the fightin’
Then cause everyone was mad
And blood enough was spilled
To form a lake
They knocked the corpse down on the floor
And blew off all the lights
There was murder down
At Steve O’Donnell’s wake
Then the cops came in to stop the brawl
To make them understand
And the corpse was picked up
By his brother Dan
But someone stole the necktie
From around O’Donnell’s throat
Mike McGovern said O’Reilly
Was the man
O’Reilly’s friends got crazy mad
And swore they’d have his life
McGovern saw he made
A great mistake
They fought and fought
And danced around until the cops came in
And arrested all
At Steve O’Donnell’s wake
Caucasians misbehavin’!
That was copy & paste directly from the article verbatim. 🙂
Yes, I know that.
Thanksgiving gonna be extra awkward this year
The Benny Hill theme song comes to mind....
I’m just going to go with my intuition and say either black family, or swamp livin white trash. In that order.
And I am guessing black family more because article didn’t mention color of family or any names.
Heck I have a friend in California and there was a slug fest between two family members at his mothers funeral -— shocked everybody! Funerals aren’t the place to sort out family differences but some people don’t get that regarless of the community they live in.
Do you have to ask.
Richmond CA is thick with feral blacks. This isn’t surprising.
The Irish have nothing on these folks when it comes to wild and woolly wakes.
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