Posted on 04/24/2006 1:08:33 AM PDT by LK44-40
CHAPEL HILL - Apple Chill, Chapel Hill's annual street festival celebrating arts, crafts and entertainment, came to a violent and chaotic end Sunday evening as three people were shot despite a heavy police presence at the event. Chapel Hill Police Chief Gregg Jarvies said two victims were shot in front of the Caribou Coffee store at 110 W. Franklin St. about 8:45 p.m. One victim had a bullet graze to the head and was shot in the chest. The other victim was shot in the back.
Both were taken to UNC Hospitals. Their names and medical conditions were not available late Sunday. A third shooting victim was discovered during a traffic stop at Franklin Street and Elliott Road, though police do not know whether that person was injured during the earlier incident. That victim's injuries were not life-threatening, Jarvies said.
Forty-five minutes after the initial shooting, Jarvies said, police received another report of gunshots fired several blocks east of 110 W. Franklin St. In a third incident, a gun was brandished, but no shots were fired.
"Our officers are running everywhere," Jarvies said. "We've got shootings, major traffic congestion, several fights, officers assaulted."
Violence in previous years prompted police to blanket Sunday's event with 235 officers from Chapel Hill and nine other jurisdictions. Officers were posted in front of businesses on the west end of Franklin Street, and others were stationed on rooftops.
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No need to let nearby Duke and Durham grab ~all~ the good publicity!
Well...they did need to liven up the place.
******Many of the motorcyclists are black, and some suggested that the uneasiness is over thousands of mostly younger blacks strolling the streets.
The rowdies were black motorcyclist club/gang members. Everyone can make his own judgment as to which part of the description of the gun-slinging rowdies is most significant.
Man, such anger!
Someone must have been overly upset over the price of that Monet print ....... or was it Seurat?
Perhaps the local police should have used a wet blankie.
I have noticed more urban, mostly black, motorcycle rowdies in recent years. They mostly ride crotch rockets and drive really crazy, in my experience.
I was set upon by about twenty on the Interstate going North out of Philadelphia, once. They rode all around the car, darting in and out and being morons. No weapons were in evidence, so I just kept it even and steady and ignored them as they did more and more provacative things to make me swerve or hit the brakes. At the end of the day, I was quite confident that mass would win out in any Cager vs. Biker collisions.
Of course, if they had been flashing guns, it would have been a whole different problem altogether. Fortunately, guns are illegal in Philadelphia, so that could never, never happen.
Ping
Thanks.
Thousands of Scottish decendents gather for a festival at Loch Norman Highland games: Police presence? 2 officers.
Thousands gather for the Chapel Hill Apple Chill festival at the center of the "peace movement": Police presence? 235 officers.
Guns are not illegal in Philly. PA is a must-issue state and permits issued in PA are good throughout the state, including in Philly.
Makes you think, doesn't it?
No sterotyping, please. Just because one or two thousand do it doesn't mean . . . wait. Never mind.
I guess the elites in the PRCH don't like it much when their race-baiting comes home to them.
I took the wife and kids to the “chill” about 4-5 years ago. I should have known better. We spent about 15 minutes at this little, leftist love-fest.
A leftist orgy on one end of the street and gangs at the other. We could not get out of there fast enough.
JW
My understanding is that you could get a free HIV screening, for those who feel the need.
{/sarcasm}
A friend of mine went (he bypassed the free screening, LOL)... he said he stopped at the petition to "free Palestine." While the lady was in full anti-repub, anti-bush, anti-conservative rant mode he picked up their petition clipboard and starting flipping though the sheets... he wrote with one, large bold letter on each sheet...
I-L-O-V-E-B-U-S-H
The story is amusing for those of us who like to see the Birkenstock crowd looking ridiculous. But, actually, I think this is a very serious and sad story.
In the early local news (WTVD and WRAL) I saw the video of throngs of young blacks in full gangsta' attire roaming the streets of Chapel Hill as though they owned the place.
Sure, Apple Chill, and all street festivals, are crawling with lefties and homos. But these events can be kinda fun and we have to overlook a lot.
These are not my people for sure, these ernest PRCH citizens, these gay-friendly, 60s lefties....they are not my people and Chapel Hill is not my town. NONETHELESS, what we have here is a whole town being mugged by gangs of young black thugs.
The Chapel Hill mayor already said today that the 35-year history of Apple Chill is over. Other politicians were agreeing. Yea, I know, it couldn't happen to a nicer town. Still, it seems to me a watershed when a town has to cancel a much-loved tradition because they can not manage the gang-bangers.
We may not exactly feel sorry for Chapel Hill, but we should be making some noise about this spectacle. Fear and intimidation could be coming soon to a neighborhood near you!
One of the primary sponsors (a fellow who heads up an African-American group) said some people seem to be terribly intimidated by the presence of AAs on motorcycles.
The information being provided in the thread is a bit askew from the information inthe news article.
Should I dismiss the news article as just more communist propaganda designed to crush American spirit, or is it pretty factual?
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