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Violence at the [WI] State Fair: fear, the media, and MC Hammer
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Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Aug 06, 2011 12:07am |
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Category | General |
Author | Matt Wild |
News Date | Friday, August 5, 2011 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
Description | Violence broke out at the Wisconsin State Fair last night, effectively pooping on the party of thousands of “OMG! I ate some deep-fried butter and it was sooooo gross!” stories statewide. Here’s what happened, as summed up by the Journal Sentinel:
Police from three jurisdictions - West Allis, Milwaukee and Wisconsin State Fair police - are spending Friday morning piecing together a series of incidents late Thursday night at the Wisconsin State Fair in which large groups of youths rampaged through the midway and outside the grounds after closing.
Officials could not say what started what witnesses said was a series of racially charged incidents that apparently began as early as 7 p.m. in the midway. The midway is located just east of the Pettit National Ice Center and adjacent to the Hank Aaron Bike Trail.
But of all the local media outlets, TMJ4 had the most interesting—and rash—approach to the story: printing nothing but testimonies from Newsradio 620 WTMJ callers. Here’s one of the more levelheaded:
“It was 100% racial,” claimed Eric, an Iraq war veteran from St. Francis who says young people beat on his car.
“I had a black couple on my right side, and these black kids were running in between all the cars, and they were pounding on my doors and trying to open up doors on my car, and they didn't do one thing to this black couple that was in this car next to us. They just kept walking right past their car. They were looking in everybody's windshield as they were running by, seeing who was white and who was black. Guarantee it.” |
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