Skip to comments.
Feud Between Two Alabama Families Turns Into Full-Scale Riot
Foxnews.com ^
| 8/25/09
Posted on 08/25/2009 6:35:05 AM PDT by DogBarkTree
MARION, Ala. Two Alabama families that had been fighting for years turned their feud into a full-scale riot Monday outside a small-town city hall, with up to 150 screaming people hurling tire irons and wielding baseball bats.
Eight people were arrested, and at least four were hurt, Trooper John Reese said. Two were taken to hospitals. The town's police chief was hit in the head with a crowbar but was OK.
The two- or three-year-old feud apparently prompted a fight earlier in the day at a high school, after a window was shot out of a home Sunday night. Then, "all hell broke loose" later in the day, said Sgt. Carlton Hogue of the Perry County Sheriff's Department.
"It was a full-scale riot is what it was," said Tony Long, mayor of the town of 3,300 about 85 miles west of Montgomery.
Hogue said the rioters were "throwing jack irons, throwing tire irons, anything they could get their hands on." Some people carried baseball bats and brooms.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: 2muchhate4words; alabama; familyfeud; fracism; racism; racists
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-63 next last
Never bring a broom to a bat fight.
To: DogBarkTree
Amazingly, these families did not have names.
2
posted on
08/25/2009 6:37:55 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: AppyPappy
Amazingly, these families did not have names. The Amish are a Plain People.
3
posted on
08/25/2009 6:39:47 AM PDT
by
Dumpster Baby
(Bacon,smokless powder,and boobs are proof that God loves us.)
To: DogBarkTree
This thread is useless without photos. :)
4
posted on
08/25/2009 6:40:05 AM PDT
by
madison10
To: AppyPappy
Amazingly, these families did not have names.
Maybe that's the cause of the feud. Without proper names, they get referred to as "the dorks with the brooms" and "the jerks with the bricks" or something.
To: VisualizeSmallerGovernment
6
posted on
08/25/2009 6:44:39 AM PDT
by
everlast
To: AppyPappy
7
posted on
08/25/2009 6:45:30 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: Dumpster Baby
LOL, I would have suspected the amish too, but then they generally have no need for tire irons.
:)
8
posted on
08/25/2009 6:46:07 AM PDT
by
JRochelle
(CO2 is plant food.)
To: AppyPappy
Amazingly, these families did not have names.The riot started over a dispute on a basketball court.
To: DogBarkTree
Was one a them famblies name Hatfield?
10
posted on
08/25/2009 6:48:19 AM PDT
by
RoadKingSE
(How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash ?)
To: Dumpster Baby
The Amish are a Plain People.Thank you for the first laugh of the day.
11
posted on
08/25/2009 6:48:40 AM PDT
by
Just another Joe
(Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: DogBarkTree
amateurs...
everybody knows that tire irons ain’t no good for hurling...
To: JRochelle; AppyPappy; madison10; Dumpster Baby
"Those arrested are Charles Sawyer, George Sawyer, Littenger Moore, Joseph Moore Curtis Moore and a juvenile. They were jailed in Marion Monday afternoon. The jailer said he had no information on the detainees ages or addresses.""Marion Chief of Police Tony Buford, left, talks strategy with officers from various departments Monday morning in Marion where about 150 people took to the streets after a weekend of tension between two of the largest families in the city."
Source: http://www.selmatimesjournal.com/news/2009/aug/24/investigation-continues-marions-melee/
To: BenLurkin
Hatfields? McCoys?Latisha?
Jameel?
To: DogBarkTree
“...The town’s police chief was
hit in the head with a crowbar
but was OK...”
-
Dang
To: All
More detail from AP sources...
Were doing an investigation to see what we come up with, Buford said in a news conference just hours after the melee on Martin Luther King Memorial Street.
Cynthia Walker, a member of one family involved in the incident, said the tension developed after three men allegedly jumped on her son after a basketball game during the weekend. He needs to get from over there, Walker said of her son. He was on the wrong turf. One of the men who allegedly threatened Walkers son had three teardrop tattoos under his eyes. Said Walker, He told me hed put two more under there, one for my son and one for the other boy. He said hell show them what those tattoos are all about.
16
posted on
08/25/2009 6:51:03 AM PDT
by
TSgt
(I long for Norman Rockwell's America.)
To: johniegrad
Maybe we can get Mutual of Omaha to mediate.
17
posted on
08/25/2009 6:51:34 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: All
Notice the DA's name! Folks, you can't make this stuff up!
District Attorney Michael Jackson said he and members of the Marion Police Department have leveled charges against those arrested.
18
posted on
08/25/2009 6:53:04 AM PDT
by
TSgt
(I long for Norman Rockwell's America.)
To: johniegrad
To: AppyPappy
Maybe we can get Mutual of Omaha to mediate.Sounds like a situation Marlon Perkins and "Jim" would be comfortable in. Just like all those expeditions they used to do in Africa.
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-63 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson