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08-05-2011, 02:36 PM
'Mob' beatings at WI state fair...
WEST ALLIS, Wis. -- Local law enforcement agencies are investigating several incidents near State Fair Park late Thursday night.
Milwaukee police said that around 11:10 p.m., squads were sent to the area for reports of battery, fighting and property damage being caused by an unruly crowd of "hundreds" of people. One officer described it as a "mob beating."
http://www.wisn.com/r/28774396/detail.html
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'Hundreds of young black people beating white people'...
State Fair/Raw video
Witnesses describe mobs, some people claim racially-charged attacks
WEST ALLIS - Witnesses tell
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of a mob of young people attacking innocent fair-goers at the end of the opening night of State Fair, with some callers claiming a racially-charged scene......Milwaukee Police confirmed there were assaults outside the fair.
Witnesses' accounts claim everything from dozens to hundreds of young black people beating white people as they left State Fair Thursday night......Authorities have not given official estimates of the number of people involved in the attacks.
"It looked like they were just going after white guys, white people," said Norb Roffers of Wind Lake in an interview with Newsradio 620 WTMJ. He left the State Fair Entrance near the corner of South 84th Street and West Schlinger Avenue in West Allis.
"They were attacking everybody for no reason whatsoever."...."It was 100% racial," claimed Eric, an Iraq war veteran from St. Francis who says young people beat on his car.
http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/126825018.html
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Fairgoers 'pulled out of cars'...
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People attacked fairgoers who were leaving the fair grounds. Police said that some victims were attacked while walking. They said others were pulled out of cars and off of motorcycles before being beaten.
The Milwaukee Police Department, West Allis Police Department and Milwaukee County Sheriff Department all responded to the area.
Milwaukee police said at least seven people were taken to area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries. They said that number could go up as other responding agencies release information.
http://www.wisn.com/news/28774396/detail.html#ixzz1UBGQm8rk
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'They were just going after white people'..
State Patrol called in, youth policy imposed after violence at State Fair
Gov. Scott Walker has ordered the Wisconsin State Patrol to provide additional law enforcement help at the Wisconsin State Fair after several incidents involving rampaging youths broke out on the fairgrounds and on the streets outside Thursday night.
Cullen Werwie, Walker's spokesman, said the governor made the decision after reviewing the events from Thursday night, in which at least 24 people were arrested.
"We will continue to evaluate the situation and make any adjustments necessary to ensure a successful and safe event. We will be doing everything in our power to ensure that parents feel that it is safe to bring their children to the world's best fair," Werwie said in a statement.
Also, Rick Frenette, CEO of the fair, announced that, because of the violence overnight, the fair would immediately implement a policy in which no youths under 18 years of age would be allowed onto the grounds after 5 p.m. without a parent or guardian who is at least 21 years of age.
Frenette, a veteran of 40 years in the fair management business, said he had never implemented such a policy before.
On Friday, police from three jurisdictions - West Allis, Milwaukee and Wisconsin State Fair - were spending Friday piecing together a series of incidents late Thursday night at the fair in which large groups of youths rampaged through the midway and outside the grounds after closing. At least 24 were arrested, and seven officers were hurt, a State Fair official said.
Tom Struebing, chief of the State Fair Police, said two of the seven injured officers were hospitalized. One was hit in the face with an improvised weapon; the other suffered a concussion.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/126828998.html
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WEST ALLIS, Wis. -- Local law enforcement agencies are investigating several incidents near State Fair Park late Thursday night.
Milwaukee police said that around 11:10 p.m., squads were sent to the area for reports of battery, fighting and property damage being caused by an unruly crowd of "hundreds" of people. One officer described it as a "mob beating."
http://www.wisn.com/r/28774396/detail.html
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'Hundreds of young black people beating white people'...
State Fair/Raw video
Witnesses describe mobs, some people claim racially-charged attacks
WEST ALLIS - Witnesses tell
snip
of a mob of young people attacking innocent fair-goers at the end of the opening night of State Fair, with some callers claiming a racially-charged scene......Milwaukee Police confirmed there were assaults outside the fair.
Witnesses' accounts claim everything from dozens to hundreds of young black people beating white people as they left State Fair Thursday night......Authorities have not given official estimates of the number of people involved in the attacks.
"It looked like they were just going after white guys, white people," said Norb Roffers of Wind Lake in an interview with Newsradio 620 WTMJ. He left the State Fair Entrance near the corner of South 84th Street and West Schlinger Avenue in West Allis.
"They were attacking everybody for no reason whatsoever."...."It was 100% racial," claimed Eric, an Iraq war veteran from St. Francis who says young people beat on his car.
http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/126825018.html
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Fairgoers 'pulled out of cars'...
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People attacked fairgoers who were leaving the fair grounds. Police said that some victims were attacked while walking. They said others were pulled out of cars and off of motorcycles before being beaten.
The Milwaukee Police Department, West Allis Police Department and Milwaukee County Sheriff Department all responded to the area.
Milwaukee police said at least seven people were taken to area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries. They said that number could go up as other responding agencies release information.
http://www.wisn.com/news/28774396/detail.html#ixzz1UBGQm8rk
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'They were just going after white people'..
State Patrol called in, youth policy imposed after violence at State Fair
Gov. Scott Walker has ordered the Wisconsin State Patrol to provide additional law enforcement help at the Wisconsin State Fair after several incidents involving rampaging youths broke out on the fairgrounds and on the streets outside Thursday night.
Cullen Werwie, Walker's spokesman, said the governor made the decision after reviewing the events from Thursday night, in which at least 24 people were arrested.
"We will continue to evaluate the situation and make any adjustments necessary to ensure a successful and safe event. We will be doing everything in our power to ensure that parents feel that it is safe to bring their children to the world's best fair," Werwie said in a statement.
Also, Rick Frenette, CEO of the fair, announced that, because of the violence overnight, the fair would immediately implement a policy in which no youths under 18 years of age would be allowed onto the grounds after 5 p.m. without a parent or guardian who is at least 21 years of age.
Frenette, a veteran of 40 years in the fair management business, said he had never implemented such a policy before.
On Friday, police from three jurisdictions - West Allis, Milwaukee and Wisconsin State Fair - were spending Friday piecing together a series of incidents late Thursday night at the fair in which large groups of youths rampaged through the midway and outside the grounds after closing. At least 24 were arrested, and seven officers were hurt, a State Fair official said.
Tom Struebing, chief of the State Fair Police, said two of the seven injured officers were hospitalized. One was hit in the face with an improvised weapon; the other suffered a concussion.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/126828998.html
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