Posted on 06/20/2007 2:55:16 PM PDT by SkyPilot
Innocent Motorists Attacked After Juneteenth
MILWAUKEE - A handful of violent incidents tarnished Milwaukee's Juneteenth celebration for the second year in a row. The festival itself was peaceful, but police in riot gear had to deal with several incidents after the event.
A large group of teens walked east on W. Burleigh St., jumping on unsuspecting drivers' cars and kicking in windows on at least two vehicles.
In one incident, a crowd surrounded a black car stuck in traffic at 2nd and Burleigh. A couple of teens jumped on top of the car. One smashed out the rear windshield. The driver stayed in the vehicle and escaped unharmed. He smashed into the car ahead of him trying to speed away from the attackers.
RAW CHOPPER VIDEO: Cars smashed on Burleigh
Further down the street, a woman in a gold car stopped after a teen jumped onto the back of her car. She got out and yelled at the teen, then she got back in a tried to speed away, also hitting the car ahead of her.
A short time later, at 1st and Burleigh, the crowd surrounded a red car, pounding on the hood and trunk and breaking out the windows. /after a woman reached into his open window, the driver got out, was kicked in the head by a man and fell to the ground. He was taken to the hospital for treatment.
In another incident, police said a young woman hit an officer in the face as the officer was trying to break up a large fight near 1st and Auer. The blow shattered the officer's face shield. The officer was cut by the shattered face shield and needed stitches at the hospital.
The suspect was taken down by officers using night sticks and was arrested.
Many people are angry that the celebration, marking the end of slavery in America, was once again marred by violence.
"Just one person can stop a whole thing," said Earnestine Rogers, a woman attending the celebration.
Now there is still concern that the violence could lead to a cancellation of the ceremony next year.
"It shouldn't be stopped because of some youngsters," said Rogers.
Thousands of people attended the Juneteenth celebration itself without incident.
Wait until they claim the riots are an integral expression of their hereditary religion.
“Can’t we deport (repatriate) these folks?”
Right, deport Americans. That’s intelligent.
Mr. Jackson? Mr. Sharpton? Any words to say condemning this wanton lawlessness and anarchy occuring during the celebration of this holiday? Do you have a statement for the press? Anything? Hello? (chirping)
Exactly, and we get to pay for it... I'd say that living with savages like these is reparations enough.
Gunships in the inner cities might go a long way to temper their violence in the future.
Race was a factor in that the man murdered by the crowd in the Texas Juneteenth riot (he wasn't even the driver of the car) was Hispanic. The murdered man was identified as David Rivas Morales, 40 years old.
I read that the child had non-life threatening injuries and is fine.
Hard to keep all these Juneteenth riots and murders straight - so far we have Austin TX, Milwaukee WI, and Syracuse NY.
Anyone know of any others?
Juneteenth in Austin Texas see Post # 73
Angry crowd kills man riding in car that struck child (Austin, Texas)
Houston Chronicle ^ | June 20, 2007 | Liz Austin Peterson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1853497/posts?page=73#73
That’s intelligent.
You have a better answer? Let's hear it.
Deporting Americans because they riot? You can’t be that stupid.
Over the past forty years Blacks have been transformed from the least to the most alien of all America's "minority" groups. And we're all the poorer (and in the greater danger) because of it.
Good day.
I have no problem with African-Americans celebrating the news of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Lincoln (a Republican by the way).
But these things always seem to end in terrible violence and mayhem.
Does anyone remember all the Freaknik riots, rapes, and murders?
I agree. I must admit, however, that today was the first time I ever heard of "Juneteenth" - but when I looked it up on Wikipedia I agreed with its premise.
We have violence, terrible violence, that has broken out in three US cities in the last 24 hours in the name of this event.
Is it the event itself, or the quality of the people it attracts? The news stories tell us drugs and alcohol are not involved. That is so ridiculous it is laughable.
If there is any group of Democrats in this country who ought to be solidly against the amnesty solution, it is blacks. If anmnesty succeeds, the black community will be like the older child whose mother has a baby and starts ignoring him.
Some how this has got to be the “White Mans “ Fault!
“Were the drivers they attacked white?”
I’d be willing to wager that the woman who got out of her car and yelled at the kids was black ... one of those grandmotherly types who don’t suffer fools.
I read about it years ago, though that doesn't mean that it might also be a made up event. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued on 1/1/1863 (which was already a holiday anyway, so it couldn't really be turned into something else). What really ended slavery was the Thirteenth Amendment which (according to the World Almanac) was passed by the Senate on 4/8/1864 but shot down by the House on 6/15 of that year. The House reconsidered and passed it on 1/31/1865 and I actually thought it was formally adopted about the time the War ended, but apparently it wasn't until 12/6 of that year. Maybe that should be the day to celebrate?
I can see that summer is a better time of year, and 6/19 is supposed to be when the slaves in Texas learned of their freedom. Why the Texas date should be universally adopted I don't know, and I'm not sure if what they belatedly heard about was the Emancipation Proclamation (which "freed" slaves only where it was unenforceable, and not anywhere under Union control) or the passing of the Amendment which actually freed them. Supposedly the local Union General in Galveston or Brownsville (I'm not sure exactly where) issued a notice of emancipation on that day.
But anyway, one of the strange things the Left does is to (how to phrase this?) "redistribute" Rightism. It tears down pride and patriotism in people that have "too much" of them, but seeks to build them up in people who supposedly don't have enough. And just as the Left enjoys debunking historical myths where the are long cherished, I can see them inventing something like this and retrojecting it (the story about President Lincoln sending a man on a mule who didn't reach Texas until that date is especially fanciful, since the Emancipation Proclamation didn't actually free anybody and he didn't live to see the Thirteenth Amendment adopted). So who knows what's really going on?
We have violence, terrible violence, that has broken out in three US cities in the last 24 hours in the name of this event.
Is it the event itself, or the quality of the people it attracts? The news stories tell us drugs and alcohol are not involved. That is so ridiculous it is laughable.
As I said, Blacks for a long time were the most American and least alien of all ethnic "minorities" (Black Americans are not African immigrants but basically a people who came into existence here--perhaps the only people of whom that can be said). That the Left has succeeded in changing this people into the most alien and alienated population segment in the country (to the extent that they are viewed by both Left and Right as being to the Left of all other groups, no matter how recent or alien) is the greatest tragedy of recent American history.
Obviosly in the Fifties and Sixties something had to be done (as a hundred years was pretty "gradual," as someone said), but the "civil rights movement" that we wound up having has turned into a nightmare for everyone. This is not an argument for the status quo ante, but definitely we needed an alternative to the movement we actually experienced, which was headed by Far Lefties.
It's too bad the Republican Party didn't take care of this problem a long time ago. Then the commies wouldn't have had it to exploit.
Yep, I was a student a Ga. Tech in Atlanta.
Got hit in the head with a liquor bottle just for being white and outdoors. (The governor cancelled classes but my prof threatened to flunk us if we didn't show...typical Ga. Tech)
Poor Pakistani immigrant who ran the gas station down the road from me was looted by a mob.
1/31 and 12/6 are too cold for a riot.
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