Fights, arrests mar King Day parade(Dallas-juvenile thugs injure officer-strangely written article)

Dallas Morning interpretive News ^ | 1/17/05 | Rebecca Lopez

[Diddle E. Squat]

Thousands of people came to downtown Dallas Monday celebrate the life of a man who preached about peace....Some say Dr. King would have been disappointed about what happened at the parade in his honor. Several juveniles were arrested after disrupting the end of the parade and fighting. A police officer was injured trying to break up the fights...

[Diddle E. Squat]

Unfortunately the Belo empire now requires excerpting of Dallas Morning News articles. What is rather odd is that in this 6 paragraph article the last 2 sentences quoted above are the only descriptions (and vague ones at that) of the actual incident in the article, and in fact in the entire newspaper's website. 'Who' or 'how' is not really stated, there's a very vague 'what' and 'when', but perhaps we plebes should be grateful that they gave us a 'where'.

I guess journalistic standards also took a holiday?

[pipecorp]

So, what happened to poor officer strangely ? ; ^)

[Cowboy Bob]

Some fights broke out at the MLK "celebration" in Phoenix today.

[Diddle E. Squat]

BTW, I agree with the article's assertion that most of the black community was unhappy with the violence. That part of the story is fine, my beef is with the media leaving out the details of the incident, for what I suspect are a variety of predictable reasons.

[BradyLS]

"journalistic standards"

Another one of the English language's funny contradictions in terms.

[proxy_user]

Typical of a hastily written article shoved onto a web site. They probably had a stock article ready, and just stuck in a few sentences and changed the headline when they saw a fight on TV.

They'll find out what actually happened later.

[LasVegasMac]

What - the MLK people forgot to talk to the Kwanza people?

Shame.

LVM

[BlazingArizona]

There was also a riot in Phoenix today. I'm sure all the blonde clones on Channel 3 - also a Belo station, as it happens - will have the details.

[PAR35]

It doesn't sound nearly as big as the riot that they had for the Dallas Cowboy victory parade a few years ago.

[lakey]

Ch. 3 said it was not a riot....clusters of fights all over the place and no one said what they were about. Several females in different areas going at it, too.

And it was only 78 degrees so nobody can blame the weather.

[Redbob]

"I guess journalistic standards also took a holiday?"

In the case of the Dallas Morning Spew, it's more like a sabbatical, with no idea when they might return!