Posted on 06/20/2007 1:39:33 PM PDT by Roberts
Milwaukee Police say a 33-year-old man has a broken tooth and cuts all over his face after a group of teenagers pulled him from his car and beat him following Milwaukee's Juneteenth celebration.
It happened after the festival ended in the 3000 block of north 1st Street which is a short distance from the actual festival. Police say hundreds of teenagers started kicking the man's car. Today's TMJ 4 video from the scene shows the teenagers damaging at least several cars.
The man who was pulled from his car was treated and released from a local hospital.
Meanwhile, a few blocks away a group of girls started fighting. When police went to break up the fight near 1st and Auer, the department says a 17-year-old girl started punching and kicking a 15-year veteran officer.
She hit him in his face shield, which shattered into his face. He needed three stitches and has scratches on his neck. That 17-year-old was arrested and police are recommending charges for battery to a police officer.
Police say there was also a fight earlier in the day in the 3000 block of north 1st Street. In that case, three women were fighting. Police say a 15-year-old boy tried to break up the fight when an 18-year-old man got involved in it.
According to police, the 18-year-old got angry, walked away and told the boy he was coming back with a gun. The 18-year-old did in fact return with a gun and fired five shots into a crowd where the boy was standing. The 15-year-old's 39-year-old uncle was hit in the shoulder. He was treated and released from a local hospital.
Some people think the violence takes away from the real meaning of Juneteenth.
"I think it should be continued," said Earnestine Rogers. "It shouldn't be stopped because of some youngsters."
It's the second year in a row that violence has broken out at the celebration.
My stepson married a black lady 12 years ago, I can’t say here what she calls THOSE people.
Some people think the violence takes away from the real meaning of Juneteenth.
“I think it should be continued,” said Earnestine Rogers.
HMMM.... LOOKS LIKE ONLY “SOME” PEOPLE THINK THAT VIOLENCE TAKES AWAY FROM THE REAL MEANING OF JUNETEENTH.
There's nothing like exercising freedom responsibly.
I don’t know that it’s that obvious violence isn’t part of the celebration. I don’t mean that violence is advocated but the whole “celebration” is based on resentment: resentment about slavery and resentment that it took so long for official notice of the Emancipation Proclamation to reach some blacks. So if you are stoking negative attitudes, then violence is a logical, if not inevitable, outgrowth of that stoking.
China.
I’d like to at least know the race of the victim. Was this a Damian “Football” Williams style beating of a White motorist by a gang of Black Thugs, or was he just part of the celebration and having issues with his ‘dawgs’.
If the former why no mention of the obvious hate crime aspect of the beating?
Thanks! :)
That might be interesting to know the race of the victim (and the silence may say all we need to know), but you don’t really believe that if the victim were white and the thugs black, the media would characterize it as a hate crime, do you?
Denver has this to say about “Juneteenth”:
Funding and threats of gang violence make for an uncertain future for Juneteenth. Without a venue that can attract crowds or security to keep them there, ...
http://cw2.trb.com/news/kwgn-denver-juneteenth,0,777317.story?coll=kwgn-home-2
Their rhetoric seems calculated to make the white man sorry he ever enslaved the black man. Their actions seem calculated to make him sorry he ever freed them. Let the flames begin.
The same thing usually happens in the Twin Cities every year at this event: murder, brawling, gang activity, and general mayhem.
Charming. At some point you just have to hit the gas. Too f*cking bad for the ‘innocent’ in the way, let the jury sort it out (after appropriate venue change). A mob, is a mob, is a mob.
Wow. Real nightmare on Elm street.
another affirmative action holiday!!!
any excuse to riot!!!!
Mr. Jackson? Mr. Sharpton? Any words to say condemning this wanton lawlessness and anarchy? Do you have a statement for the press? Anything? Hello? (chirping)
Chris Rock was right.
I once had working for me an excellent, intelligent, conscientious clerk who was raised in the slums of Cleveland. One day a conversation turned to some rioting and looting that had just taken place in Detroit. We were discussing television footage of the anarchy and melee and of some men hauling new television sets from an appliance store that had been broken into. She told me just as soberly as she if she were discussing what flavor of ice cream is best, “They have a right riot and loot. I’d be helping them if I was there.”
Amen, Jack.
Absolutely.
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