Juneteenth Beatdown

[mraynrand]

Oh to be in Milwaukee for the Beer, the Brew Crew and the Juneteenth, teenagers-drag-a-guy-from-a-car beatdown! Read the Article carefully:


Police Relase More Detail About Juneteenth Violence
By Jon Byman

Milwaukee Police say a 33-year-old man has a broken tooth and cuts all over his face after a group of teenagers pulled him from his car and beat him following Milwaukee's Juneteenth celebration.
It happened after the festival ended in the 3000 block of north 1st Street which is a short distance from the actual festival. Police say hundreds of teenagers started kicking the man's car. Today's TMJ 4 video from the scene shows the teenagers damaging at least several cars.
The man who was pulled from his car was treated and released from a local hospital.
Meanwhile, a few blocks away a group of girls started fighting. When police went to break up the fight near 1st and Auer, the department says a 17-year-old girl started punching and kicking a 15-year veteran officer.
She hit him in his face shield, which shattered into his face. He needed three stitches and has scratches on his neck. That 17-year-old was arrested and police are recommending charges for battery to a police officer.
Police say there was also a fight earlier in the day in the 3000 block of north 1st Street. In that case, three women were fighting. Police say a 15-year-old boy tried to break up the fight when an 18-year-old man got involved in it.
According to police, the 18-year-old got angry, walked away and told the boy he was coming back with a gun. The 18-year-old did in fact return with a gun and fired five shots into a crowd where the boy was standing. The 15-year-old's 39-year-old uncle was hit in the shoulder. He was treated and released from a local hospital.
Some people think the violence takes away from the real meaning of Juneteenth.
"I think it should be continued," said Earnestine Rogers. "It shouldn't be stopped because of some youngsters."
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To repeat from the article "Some people think the violence takes away from the real meaning of Juneteenth."

REALLY? AND SOME DON'T? Welcome to your U.S. inner cities: Where you can experience that third world country atmosphere without the Visa and expensive airfare.


It's the second year in a row that violence has broken out at the celebration.

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[Freak Out]

I always thought Milwaukee was such a nice place. Wait...I'm thinking of the Milwaukee of Laverne and Shirley where the tough guys were Lenny and Squiggy.

[packinpatland]

What is Juneteenth? How,when and why did it start?

[packinpatland]

Juneteenth marks the day Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston in 1865 to share news of the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves two years earlier on Jan. 1, 1863.


This would explain why there is a Juneteenth day in Texas, by why one in
Milwaukee?

This one in Texas turned deadly.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19332252/

[Deputy Nutz]

Milwaukee has turned into a shithole. The crime is what we call out of control. Before long people in the suburbs are going to start worring about it eventually.

[mraynrand]

Nothing makes you feel as emancipated as when some punks haul you outta your car and beat the living shit out of you. Hey, while they're at it, they could lynch you. If you're white, you had it coming anyway. Sort of like reparations.

[Freak Out]

What is it with Juneteenth?

Crowd Kills Man After Car Hits Child

> By LIZ AUSTIN PETERSON
Associated Press Writer

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Police on Wednesday were pleading for witnesses to help them track down members of an angry mob that beat a man to death after the car he was riding in apparently struck and injured a child.

Investigators were struggling to piece together what happened Tuesday when David Rivas Morales died defending the driver from members of a crowd leaving a Juneteenth celebration. There could have been anywhere from two to 20 attackers, Austin Police Commander Harold Piatt said.

The car in which Morales, 40, was a passenger had entered an apartment complex's parking lot when it struck a 3- or 4-year-old child, Piatt said. The child was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The driver got out of the car to check on the child and was confronted by several people, Piatt said. When they attacked the driver, Morales got out of the car to protect the driver and was attacked as well. Police said no guns or knives were used.

The driver got away and is cooperating with investigators, who are not releasing his name.

Margaret Morales said a young boy came to her door to tell her that her brother was lying on the ground outside. She found David Morales, sprawled on the pavement 100 feet from her townhouse, battered and choking on blood.

She said her mother came running after hearing her screams, but police wouldn't let either of them get close to him.

Police arrived one minute after receiving a 911 call, by which time the beating had stopped, department spokeswoman Toni Chovanetz said. But the Morales family complained that medical help was slow in coming.

David Morales arrived at the hospital about 35 minutes after the 911 call was received, said Warren Hassinger, Austin-Travis County Emergency Services spokesman. Emergency officials said police ordered them to wait until the area was secure.

An estimated 2,000 to 3,000 people were in the area for a city-sponsored festival for Juneteenth, which commemorates Texas slaves getting the word that they had been freed.

Several hundred people had filled the parking lot and street as the daylong festival at a nearby park ended and spilled over into the surrounding neighborhoods, said Katherine White, a Morales family friend who lives in a townhouse next door to where the beating took place.

Police said the injured child was a girl, but White said it was a boy with long hair he wears in ponytails.

Margaret Morales said her brother, who was staying with her, was a painter on his way home from work. The driver, whom she knew only as Victor, picked him up and dropped him off everyday, she said.

The Morales family remembered David as a caring brother who loved the San Antonio Spurs and was thrilled when they won the NBA title last week. Earl White, Katherine's brother, said David Morales enjoyed sitting on the porch, watching the neighborhood children play in the parking lot.

"I just want the people caught and brought to justice," another sister, Elizabeth Morales, said. "I want them to feel the same pain that they caused my brother."

[digitaldean]

Sad and absolutely senseless events in San Antonio and Milwaukee.

The guy who tries to be a peacemaker gets killed. A bunch of nut jobs in Milwaukee try beating a guy to death who is stuck in traffic. Then some woman in the crown punches a cop in the face when she and a group were told to disperse when things got out of hand.

Absolutely mind blowing the senselessness of this.

[Kiwon]

Nothing makes you feel as emancipated as when some punks haul you outta your car and beat the living shit out of you. Hey, while they're at it, they could lynch you. If you're white, you had it coming anyway. Sort of like reparations.

A+, mraynrand, for gallows humor.

I'm sure everyone there were history majors.