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Casket gets knocked over at Bay Area funeral where massive family fight breaks out
SFgate ^ | Amy Graff | Aug. 10, 2022

Posted on 08/10/2022 11:04:31 AM PDT by nickcarraway

A massive brawl broke out between up to 20 family members during a funeral for an elderly woman in Richmond on Aug. 6, leading to one injury, one arrest and $20,000 in damage, officials said.

The Richmond Police Department said it responded to the Rolling Hills Memorial Park at 1:30 p.m. after several reports of a "chaotic altercation" between eight to 20 family members who were reportedly armed.

Sgt. Aaron Pomeroy said it was an instance of family drama that started between a brother and a sister who were attending their mother's funeral and who do not get along — and "it goes back many years."

The brother and sister sister were talking and got into an argument, when her boyfriend came over and encouraged her to walk away, Pomeroy said.

"The brother started beating on the boyfriend, and that's when it escalated and it became a brawl and we started to get calls," he said.

At some point during the physical fight, the brother got into the vehicle with the intention of driving over his sister, Pomeroy said.

"He attempted to drive toward his sister in an aggressive way, but instead he struck another female and sent her to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries," he said. The victim is 33 years old.

In the car, the brother also damaged the grass, knocked over and damaged headstones and vases, and broke a water main that ejected copious amounts of water and flooded the funeral plot, Lt. Matt Stonebraker, a spokesperson for the department, said.

The driver also reportedly knocked over the casket, but Stonebraker said the body didn't fall out.

When the brother got out of the car, a family member hit him in the head with a cane, injuring him, Pomeroy said.

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To: larrytown

A friend of ours had her entire house cleaned out while she was at her father’s funeral. Ordinary burglars, though, not relatives or friends (probably). I’d never go to any event like a wedding or a funeral now without leaving someone on watch in our house.


81 posted on 08/10/2022 1:43:29 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Seruzawa
Sounds like the standard Irish wake to me.
Only if the corpse got up and got into the fight.
82 posted on 08/10/2022 1:43:44 PM PDT by nicollo (arbitrary law is not rule of law)
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To: livius
they are all on a hair trigger…against each other, anybody who they think “disrespects” them in any way,
When there is no higher authority -- God, law, ethics, morals, government, even -- individuals take judgment into their own hands.

The problem here is that urban black America has a dominant culture of self-justification. It is the result of the breakdown of the family, government-sponsored unemployment, and, as you say, an absence of God.

Oh, and all that times an insipid popular culture, magnified across every cell phone, that enshrines criminal and immoral behavior.
83 posted on 08/10/2022 1:48:08 PM PDT by nicollo (arbitrary law is not rule of law)
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To: Albion Wilde

We probably will never know the ethnicity, as the gave nothing from which to even try to determine that.


84 posted on 08/10/2022 2:00:54 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong
We probably will never know the ethnicity, as the gave nothing from which to even try to determine that.

I was mainly responding to the immediate assumptions on the thread that it was black folks, when the area is 90% other ethnicities.

85 posted on 08/10/2022 2:33:08 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Liz Cheney, Trump’s personal Javert..."--Michael Anton)
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To: nickcarraway

the Irish ballad “Steve O’Donnell’s Wake” has a similar incident.

Mike McGovern said of Steve
he was an awful bum
Of course he only meant it
For a joke
But Paddy Mack got up his back
And he made McGovern run
Cause he hit him in the eye
An awful poke

They all joined in the fightin’
Then cause everyone was mad
And blood enough was spilled
To form a lake
They knocked the corpse down on the floor
And blew off all the lights
There was murder down
At Steve O’Donnell’s wake

Then the cops came in to stop the brawl
To make them understand
And the corpse was picked up
By his brother Dan
But someone stole the necktie
From around O’Donnell’s throat
Mike McGovern said O’Reilly
Was the man

O’Reilly’s friends got crazy mad
And swore they’d have his life
McGovern saw he made
A great mistake
They fought and fought
And danced around until the cops came in
And arrested all
At Steve O’Donnell’s wake

Caucasians misbehavin’!


86 posted on 08/10/2022 3:03:07 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Albion Wilde
But I wasn't one of them. 🙂

That was copy & paste directly from the article verbatim. 🙂

87 posted on 08/10/2022 3:45:54 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong
But I wasn't one of them.

Yes, I know that.

88 posted on 08/10/2022 4:27:34 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Liz Cheney, Trump’s personal Javert..."--Michael Anton)
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To: nickcarraway

Thanksgiving gonna be extra awkward this year


89 posted on 08/10/2022 4:32:02 PM PDT by lump in the melting pot
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To: HYPOCRACY

90 posted on 08/10/2022 4:33:03 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (3,703,267 users on Truth Social)
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To: dfwgator

The Benny Hill theme song comes to mind....


91 posted on 08/10/2022 5:15:58 PM PDT by MO Repub mom
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To: nickcarraway

I’m just going to go with my intuition and say either black family, or swamp livin white trash. In that order.


92 posted on 08/10/2022 5:33:34 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

And I am guessing black family more because article didn’t mention color of family or any names.


93 posted on 08/10/2022 5:34:53 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: NorthMountain

Heck I have a friend in California and there was a slug fest between two family members at his mothers funeral -— shocked everybody! Funerals aren’t the place to sort out family differences but some people don’t get that regarless of the community they live in.


94 posted on 08/10/2022 5:53:22 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: al baby

Do you have to ask.


95 posted on 08/10/2022 6:07:12 PM PDT by Hulka
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To: nickcarraway

Richmond CA is thick with feral blacks. This isn’t surprising.


96 posted on 08/10/2022 6:13:50 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Кчерту Путина, Kчерту Россию)
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To: nickcarraway

The Irish have nothing on these folks when it comes to wild and woolly wakes.


97 posted on 08/10/2022 6:24:27 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Кчерту Путина, Kчерту Россию)
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