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"Mini-riot" in downtown Minneapolis caught on tape [VIDEO]
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| Mon., Sep. 12 2011 at 7:39 AM
| Mike Mullen
Posted on 09/12/2011 2:20:37 PM PDT by null and void
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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.
TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: minneapolis; minnesota; norwegians; yutes
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Those wacky Utes
To: null and void
Buncha rowdy Norwegians, I bet.
To: null and void
“young people”
If that’s the best description they got, you KNOW who’s behind the violence.
Just sayin’...
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posted on
09/12/2011 2:25:01 PM PDT
by
Tigerized
To: null and void
More troublesome, though, were the fights that took place within the group, one of which was caught on tape.
MORE troublesome?????!!!!! What's wrong with them killing each other off? At least they're not praying on the decent and innocent.
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posted on
09/12/2011 2:26:31 PM PDT
by
FrdmLvr
(culture, language, borders)
To: null and void
Sensationalist headline. This was a street fight that died in infancy, not a “mini riot”.
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posted on
09/12/2011 2:34:50 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(Disgusted with the establishment GOP and their enablers.)
To: null and void
If they weren't "Amish", the headlines would've read...
Tea Partiers riot in downtown Minneapolis...0bama orders National Guard!"
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posted on
09/12/2011 2:37:49 PM PDT
by
papasmurf
(0bama...just doing the job Americans won't do.)
To: null and void
How does that scale go again?
Mini-riot ...Riot...Venti Riot?
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posted on
09/12/2011 2:41:25 PM PDT
by
Flag_This
(Real presidents don't bow.)
To: null and void
As a large crowd moved down Nicollet Mall, it tossed restaurant furniture and confronted bystanders... More troublesome, though, were the fights that took place within the group, one of which was caught on tape... The video...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.So, someone tell me why some teenagers punching each other is more troublesome than them threatening bystanders and trashing someone's restaurant?
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posted on
09/12/2011 2:44:10 PM PDT
by
heartwood
To: Rebelbase
I agree. I could’ve quelled the whole thing with a dozen or so buckets of free fried chicken.
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posted on
09/12/2011 2:46:28 PM PDT
by
davisfh
To: null and void
outtakes from Purple Rain?
To: null and void
Bitter Clingers vs the Amish.
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posted on
09/12/2011 2:52:33 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
Comment #12 Removed by Moderator
To: null and void
Not that I condone it, but that wasn't much of a riot, even a "mini riot"
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posted on
09/12/2011 2:53:04 PM PDT
by
Popman
(Obama is God's curse upon the land....)
To: null and void
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posted on
09/12/2011 2:57:40 PM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
(My mind is like a steel trap: rusty and illegal in 37 states.)
To: Popman
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.
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posted on
09/12/2011 2:59:14 PM PDT
by
xrmusn
((6/98) If govt involved, the more outlandish a scheme appears, the truer it probably is.)
To: null and void
I thought the Utes were from Utah, not Minneapolis! Maybe you have it confused with feral, Amish yoots!
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posted on
09/12/2011 3:00:42 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: heartwood
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.
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posted on
09/12/2011 3:01:20 PM PDT
by
healy61
To: null and void
do I really have to say it???
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posted on
09/12/2011 3:06:14 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: xrmusn
I thought it was far more interesting the video they posted was filled with F bombs and no disclaimer or warning of bad lauguage...
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posted on
09/12/2011 3:06:43 PM PDT
by
Popman
(Obama is God's curse upon the land....)
To: null and void
Worst.
Cameraman.
Ever.
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posted on
09/12/2011 3:10:20 PM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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