Posted on 03/19/2014 1:36:48 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
The Kansas City Zoo will again review its policies after a frightening spasm of violence Tuesday afternoon that included shots fired in the parking lot.
There were no reported gunshot injuries, but zoo officials want to avoid having the animal park gain a reputation for being unsafe on days when it is open for free to residents of Jackson and Clay counties.
Tuesday’s disturbances followed another incident on a free day last April when a police officer breaking up a fight in the parking lot got a bloody nose. In both cases, the free admission drew crowds that were too big for the zoo to handle.
“I’m always concerned about how people feel about the zoo,” zoo director Randy Wisthoff said shortly after Tuesday’s incident. “That’s always at the top of my plate, that people feel safe here.”
Several witnesses on Tuesday described a chaotic scene of brawls and gunshots.
Kristi Sharp Patterson, who was at the zoo Tuesday with her children, said that as they were leaving, she saw people on the ground in handcuffs, and crowds were gathering around.
“Next thing you know shots were fired in the parking lot right in front of the zoo and everyone started screaming and running in every direction,” Patterson told The Star. “By far the scariest experience ever.”
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Wrong animals are in the zoo.
thing is we hardly got any of the slaves sent to the americas. most went to south america and the carribean. yet they only remember north america.
i suppose it may have been better for the conquering muslims, the other stronger african tribes, to just have killed off those they defeated, rather than sell them to europeans. it’s been so much worse for them in america than in africa, where their ancestors could have been executed and they, never existed.
Interesting. The National Zoo in DC is free every day and I can’t remember the last group violence incident.
Widely known as the Kansas City Red Star for decades.
Be patient, it’s soon summer . . .
I wonder how long it will be before the term “teens” will come to mean what everyone knows it means
to the point that leftists will say the word is “racist”...
I’m not an expert on DC, but on my visit there in 2012 it seemed like there was an LEO of some type on pretty much every corner.
When I watched a group of youts stage a flash mob and strip a beverage truck clean in about 30 seconds, it seemed like in 30 more seconds there were about 50 LEOs on the scene.
Maybe the zoo had an “intimidating” LEO presence.
Oh, pretty much everyone knows what it means, not just on FreeRepublic. You’ll see that the views that people will post on ABCNews.com or startribune.com or wherever are VERY hostile towards this group of individuals.
I think there’s still a small group of white liberals who have remained uninjured by them, and can continue their loving the poor little victims charade.
LOL!
“They should require patrons to perform a simple arithmetic problem like WordPress Math Captcha:”
and explain their answer in perfect English
How about posting it so we don't have to search for it? Thanks
TNB
And make sure it's printed in cursive.
When are we going to get a handle on these crime generators? It’s only going to get worse, generationally, they are way ahead of civilized people.
The worst idea was not in having the ships ready to return the freed slaves to Africa the moment Lincoln set them free.
you can take the ****** out of the zoo but you can’t take the zoo out of the ******
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