Posted on 09/12/2011 2:20:37 PM PDT by null and void
A series of fights broke out after a teen dance party in downtown Minneapolis on Saturday night, causing wild scenes on busy streets, and leading to the arrests of three participants.
Early news reports called the action a "riot," but that term has since been downgraded to "mini-riot." The trouble started as hundreds of teenagers poured out of the Hyatt Regency Hotel, which was hosting the "Big Bash 2" dance party. During the party, kids had scuffled with event security, leading to a police call, an early end to the party, and an exodus of riled-up kids.
As a large crowd moved down Nicollet Mall, it tossed restaurant furniture and confronted bystanders, according to the Star Tribune.
More troublesome, though, were the fights that took place within the group, one of which was caught on tape.
The video, captured and uploaded by someone who says he was having his bachelor party at the Local, shows a slew of young people walking down the street. A couple of them begin to have words, and some scatter, before a dozen or so get into brief brawl with punches and chairs thrown.
The fighting ends soon enough, and the crowd simply moves on farther down the block, increasing its speed as cops arrive.
Later, when the crowd stalled at South 10th Street and Nicollet, police responded with riot gear and pepper spray, and arrested three "mini-riot" participants, one of whom had punched a cop, the Star Tribune reports.
The lesson, apparently, is that you should always wear goggles to teen dance parties: Party promoter Brayshaun Gibson, 19, says police used pepper spray to disperse the first Big Bash party in April.
Buncha rowdy Norwegians, I bet.
“young people”
If that’s the best description they got, you KNOW who’s behind the violence.
Just sayin’...
MORE troublesome?????!!!!! What's wrong with them killing each other off? At least they're not praying on the decent and innocent.
Sensationalist headline. This was a street fight that died in infancy, not a “mini riot”.
So, someone tell me why some teenagers punching each other is more troublesome than them threatening bystanders and trashing someone's restaurant?
I agree. I could’ve quelled the whole thing with a dozen or so buckets of free fried chicken.
Bitter Clingers vs the Amish.
Not that I condone it, but that wasn’t much of a riot, even a “mini riot”
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Righto!!
With ‘only’ 3 arrests, hardly worth the ink and time to set the story.
Must be a slow news month in Minnesota.
I thought the Utes were from Utah, not Minneapolis! Maybe you have it confused with feral, Amish yoots!
These types of articles are not complete until I have read that “Authorities were scrambling to determine a motive behind the disturbance.” Well, they can quit scrambling. Some people can’t live in a society of pigs.
do I really have to say it???
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