Felonious summer
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/09/08/gang.assault.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest
The reported attack punctuated Milwaukee's felonious summer, which started with a Memorial Day weekend in which 28 people were shot. Though homicide numbers are lower than 2005, assaults are up by 22 percent and robberies by 36 percent, Schwartz said.
Several mob attacks have taken place in Milwaukee's inner city in recent years. In 2002, more than a dozen people, mostly boys, chased a man through the streets and beat him to death with shovel handles, rakes and tree limbs.
A mentally ill man died after being beaten and robbed by a group in 2004. Four days after that attack, a 14-year-old boy was kicked, punched and hit on the head with a piece of lumber after he exchanged words with a girl. He was in a coma for two weeks.
Also that summer, four brothers were beaten by a group armed with bats, bottles, sticks and socks stuffed with canned food.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett described the latest alleged crimes as disgusting and deeply troubling.
"When you have people working in concert and no one in the group is showing conscience, that's a real problem," he said.
Talk about an understatement!