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Title: Fights Break Out At MLK Day Parad
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Fox23, Tulsa
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Published: Jan 18, 2010
Author: Abbie Alford
Post Date: 2010-01-19 00:00:27 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Comments: 7
Tulsa Police say six people were detained after a number of fights broke out at the Martin Luther King Jr. parade. Chaos on a day when Tulsa celebrates an extraordinary man’s legacy of peace. During the Martin Luther King Jr. parade a number of fights with teens and gang members and onlookers broke out. It happened at the entrance to the parade at E. Pine and N. Greenwood Ave. Tulsa Police say six people were detained after a number of fights broke out at the Martin Luther King Jr. parade. Sgt. Skipper Baine says two adults (names are not being released) were arrested. One for possesion of marijunana and another arrested for resisting arrest. Two juveniles were issued citations for assault and three juveniles were released to their parents. Baine says the fights were instigated by gang members but none detained at gang associations. FOX23’s Abbie Alford reports on the challenge of stopping the violence. Tulsa Police say the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office Mounted patrol and a reserve deputy’s helicopter were used for crowd control. During recent budget cuts, former Mayor Kathy Taylor grounded the two helicopters and dismantled TPD's mounted patrol. One paradegoer called the fight mayhem. "On a day where we celebrate peace, a day that we are honoring Martin Luther King Junior that did so much to fight for peace his whole theme was non violence," says Patricia Gaines who works with the anti-violence organization “Tulsa Study Group.” However, even Dr. King couldn’t reach everyone and his fight was anything but easy. And the fight remains a difficult one as young troublemakers couldn’t even take one day off from acting out violently. "It's almost a disgrace to his legacy," says Gaines. Police say they had to call for more than 50 officers from across Tulsa for back-up, even off-duty officers working other areas of the parade were called to control the chaos. "Every time they started a fight we would break it up they would move a little ways and they would start fighting again," says Cpl. Scott Anderson. While some got away many teens including girls were hauled off even by deputies on horseback. No shots were fired and no weapons were found. However, it’s this violence that has so many community organizers facing the same difficult questions Dr. King faced decades ago. "How can we better our community how can we stop the violence?” says Gaines. Another paradegoer says it’s about remembering what the civil rights leader King stood for in this generation. "All of this is for a dream, let's keep the dream alive," says Eric Reynolds. In 2005, Tulsa Police beefed up security after gang violence marred the parade. Last year, police say they recovered guns from paradgoers.
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#1. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#0)
What could these people possibly be violent over, at an MLK Day Parade? Seriously. If He were alive today, none of this crap would be happening, and chances are the black community wouldn't have suffered repeated indignity at the hands of such players as Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, or Jesse Jackson. We, the entire population of the United States, wouldn't have to hear about this idiotic nonsense either.
It is better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you are not. - Tommy The Mad Artist.
I'm wondering how one gets arrested and charged only with resisting arrest? Was the cop clairvoyant?
Are you serious? Violence followed the man wherever he went!
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. I think the times have changed a bit, as there were always lots and lots of agitators around deliberately trying to turn things into chaos. The people who are most likely to get violent, are probably the paid provocateurs of Big Gov, who need to marginalize anything that helps our society. It's truly sad actually, that we have a government that is entirely based on the division of our population through politics, and other social strife knowing full well they are the cause of nearly all of the trouble they claim to be trying to fix.
It is better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you are not. - Tommy The Mad Artist.
gee, i guess they forgot to include this in the later edition of the story....thats a shame....stereotypes: if they weren't true, people wouldn't use em.... 3 Shot Near Martin Luther King Events in San Antonio Monday, January 18, 2010 PrintShareThis SAN ANTONIO — Three people have been wounded when gunfire erupted near crowds attending Martin Luther King Jr. holiday activities in San Antonio. The shooting happened about 4 p.m. Monday outside a Church's Fried Chicken restaurant in a commercial and retail strip along South New Braunfels Avenue, east of downtown San Antonio. WOAI-TV in San Antonio quotes witnesses as saying several girls began fighting outside the restaurant when someone drew a gun and fired at least two shots. The scene is near the end point of San Antonio's MLK Day march, which ended several hours earlier. WOAI-TV reports dozens of people at the restaurant ran for cover after hearing the shots. No identities have been released of the injured, but early news reports quote police as saying none of the wounds appear to be life-threatening. The reports say two armed teenage boys have been taken into custody.
'It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.' - Apache proverb
This article explains why violence followed Mike King like a dark cloud.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. My grandparents lived 1.5 miles from that intersection, that's right in the middle of spooktown.
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#2. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#0)
and another arrested for resisting arrest.
The only real restraint on gummints is people who say "live free or die" ... and mean it. - Enderby
#3. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#1)
If He were alive today, none of this crap would be happening,
Lord Acton
#4. To: James Deffenbach (#3)
#5. To: Prefrontal Vortex, Flintlock (#0)
#6. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#4)
Lord Acton
#7. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#0)
It happened at the entrance to the parade at E. Pine and N. Greenwood Ave.
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
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