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Attacks mar Iowa State Fair
NBC2 ^ | Weds., August 25, 2010

Posted on 08/25/2010 2:45:05 PM PDT by KeyLargo

Attacks mar Iowa State Fair

Posted: Aug 25, 2010 10:01 AM CDT Updated: Aug 25, 2010 10:01 AM CDT

Des Moines police are investigating a string of attacks at the Iowa State Fair, and say they may be racially motivated.

Police say in the latest attack on the fair's final night, Sunday, 30 to 40 teens roamed the fairgrounds looking for trouble.

Some teens had been yelling, "IT'S BEAT WHITEY NIGHT."

State Troopers say they tried to disperse a crowd of teens Sunday night near the main gate at the fairgrounds, but once the teens left the grounds, they started fighting with Des Moines Police officers.

One officer reported someone hit him and knocked him to the ground in the skirmish.

In all, three officers reported minor injuries after teens punched and kicked them.

Officers reported using chemical sprays and a Taser to subdue the attackers.

Police cited at least three teens for failing to disperse the area.

Des Moines Police spokeswoman Lori Lavorato said officers are still trying to figure out what role, if any, race had in the incidents.

"We had a lot of assaults on people randomly walking out of the Iowa State Fair. Most of our victims happen to be white. Is that a racial thing? I don't know. It's all under investigation," she said.

Lavorato said the department had brought in an extra unit Friday and Saturday for extra protection, but the unit wasn't assigned to the fair Sunday when the latest fight happened


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: amish; assault; battery; beatwhitey; cw2; iowa; obamapeacecorps; race; youts
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IA COPS TRYING TO UNRAVEL 'BEAT WHITEY NIGHT' AT STATE FAIR

http://www.lineofduty.com/content/category/10/18/26/

1 posted on 08/25/2010 2:45:11 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo
how bout a shoot CRIMINALS night???
2 posted on 08/25/2010 2:48:13 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: KeyLargo

“Officers reported using chemical sprays and a Taser to subdue the attackers.”

How about you shot a few and see if the rest come back?


3 posted on 08/25/2010 2:48:27 PM PDT by jimpick
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To: KeyLargo

I can hardly wait for the media spin on this.


4 posted on 08/25/2010 2:48:32 PM PDT by oyez (The difference in genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.)
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To: KeyLargo

“Officers reported using chemical sprays and a Taser to subdue the attackers.”

How about you shoot a few and see if the rest come back?


5 posted on 08/25/2010 2:48:41 PM PDT by jimpick
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To: KeyLargo
Some teens had been yelling, "IT'S BEAT WHITEY NIGHT."

officers are still trying to figure out what role, if any, race had in the incidents.

6 posted on 08/25/2010 2:49:14 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
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To: KeyLargo

> ... they may be racially motivated.

No!!

Ya don’t say!!!

/roll eyes


7 posted on 08/25/2010 2:50:25 PM PDT by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: KeyLargo
See Also:

State Rep Not Sure if ‘Beat Whitey Night’ Fights Were Racially Motivated.
 
08/25/2010 1:51:31 PM PDT · by La Lydia · 55 replies
Weasel Zippers ^ | August 24, 2010
I wonder if he’d be more sure if they were “openly calling it beat blackie night”? ... Des Moines police are trying to determine what led to a series of attacks outside the Iowa State Fairgrounds over the weekend that included the assault of two police officers. Sgt. David Murillo stated in a report on Friday night: On-duty officers at the fairgrounds advise there was a group of 30 to 40 individuals roaming the fairgrounds openly calling it ‘beat whitey night.’ And State Rep. Ako Abdul-Samad, D-Des Moines said he doesn’t have enough information to decide if the fights were...
 

Latest Fun Activity at the Iowa State Fairgrounds: ‘Beat Whitey Night’
 
08/24/2010 10:15:11 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 26 replies
Weasel Zippers ^ | August 24, 2010
Will Eric Holder investigate this? Will Al Sharpton issue a statement about “tolerance?”… (Des Moines Register) — Des Moines police are trying to determine what led to a series of attacks outside the Iowa State Fairgrounds over the weekend that included the assault of two police officers. At least three people were arrested Friday through early Monday morning. Other arrests may occur as officers investigate the incidents, officials said. There are indications that some of the fights – which appear to involve mostly teenagers and young adults – were racially motivated, police said. “We don’t know if this was juveniles...
 

Beat Whitey Night at the Iowa State Fair
 
08/24/2010 10:03:12 AM PDT · by stillafreemind · 176 replies
Associated Content/Yahoo ^ | Aug. 24th, 2010 | Sherry Tomfeld
Over the last weekend trouble again erupted at the fair grounds where a group of 30-40 people, mostly black, were roaming the grounds and saying it was "beat whitey night".

8 posted on 08/25/2010 2:51:00 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Iowa floods, Obama vacations. Moochelle Obama, please pass the cake.)
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To: KeyLargo

These cops are abunch of PC idiots. A bunch of black punks yelling “it’s beat whitey night” beat up a bunch of white people and the cops “wonder” if race is involved! You can damn sure bet if it was the other way around they wouldn’t be “wondering”!


9 posted on 08/25/2010 2:52:36 PM PDT by pgkdan (When the same man...holds the sword and the purse, there is an end of liberty: George Mason)
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To: KeyLargo
“Beat Whitey night at the fair”.....Whites being beaten up by blacks.....racism?...hmmm, lemme see.....

On the other hand if it were “Beat blackie night at the fair” and blacks were being beaten up by whites, it would be so much simpler to decipher. “YEAH THAT WOULD BE RACISM!!!”

10 posted on 08/25/2010 2:58:55 PM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (If Obama doesn't destroy America, she is indestructible.)
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To: KeyLargo

Where are the Hells Angels when they are needed?


11 posted on 08/25/2010 2:58:59 PM PDT by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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To: KeyLargo

What a joke! It would be “politically incorrect” to call it racially motivated, wouldn’t it? Some liberals might get upset. This country becomes more and more of a joke every day. If a person can’t call something by its right name, they should at least keep their mouths shut.


12 posted on 08/25/2010 2:59:10 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Democrats = authoritarian socialists)
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To: oyez

>> I can hardly wait for the media spin on this.

“Whitey brings it on himself... by being whitey.”


13 posted on 08/25/2010 2:59:23 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
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To: pgkdan

I literal CLOUD of tweets and TXT messages should have been sent and the “crackers” should have arranged (or should arrange in the near future) a “crackers ain’t comin’” night.

The reduction in revenue should make fair officials take notice.


14 posted on 08/25/2010 3:00:37 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon Ping List.)
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To: KeyLargo

One of the factoids that emerged from the New Black Panthers’ voting intimidation case was that Eric Holder’s Justice Department will not prosecute black on white incidents. In other words, this was a just a bunch of exuberant teenagers who got involved in an altercation with kids from another school, or another part of town, for reasons OTHER than the differences in the various amounts of melanin.


15 posted on 08/25/2010 3:00:45 PM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (If Hayek were still alive, he'd be turning over in his grave.)
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To: oyez

they may be racially motivated.

A white guy punches a booger in the face, and immediately, it is racially motivated; whether it was or was not. The white guy is guilty as charged.

Blacks assault whites and the police say the attacks “may be racially motivated”. It is disgusting!!


16 posted on 08/25/2010 3:02:10 PM PDT by Mr. Wright
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To: KeyLargo

So why didn’t “Whitey” go back to his pick up truck and empty the gun rack...??


17 posted on 08/25/2010 3:02:47 PM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: oyez
I can hardly wait for the media spin on this. "They deserved it."
18 posted on 08/25/2010 3:02:56 PM PDT by scott7278 ("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked." BHO)
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To: KeyLargo

Arkansas State Fair starts in a few weeks. I’ll be upgunning to my Colt Delta Elite 10mm for that night.


19 posted on 08/25/2010 3:03:00 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (FORGET the lawyers...first kill the "journalists". (Die Ritter der Kokosnuss))
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To: oyez
I can hardly wait for the media spin on this.

"Racist police deny blacks their right to beat up people".

20 posted on 08/25/2010 3:03:30 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: oyez

“I can hardly wait for the media spin on this.”

Uh, here’s the news:

EXTREME FUN: Iowa State Fair 2010 wraps up with ‘Extreme Sunday’

http://www.whotv.com/news/who-story-final-fair-day-08222010,0,7413498.story

Foods of Yesteryear Featured in Iowa State Fair Cooking Competition

http://readme.readmedia.com/Foods-of-Yesteryear-Featured-in-Iowa-State-Fair-Cooking-Competition/1699689

Iowa State Fair attendance down.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20100824/JUICE07/8250304/-1/GETPUBLISHED03robots.txt/The-Buzz-5-things-on-our-radar-August-25

Try an Iowa State Fair blue ribbon recipe

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20100825/LIFE/100825021/-1/PREPS/Try-an-Iowa-State-Fair-blue-ribbon-recipe

Practice makes prize-winning cinnamon rolls

http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/lifestyles/food-and-cooking/article_584f02fa-1ebc-51fd-8688-1aa47810f796.html

Iowans Scramble to Cope with Egg Catastrophe

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2013171,00.html

Altoona siblings take the cake at the fair

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20100825/ALTOONA01/100825024/-1/THEMES/Altoona-siblings-take-the-cake-at-the-fair


21 posted on 08/25/2010 3:04:33 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

This is of course the Insane State whose Federal Judge locked Shlomo Rubashkin away for 27 years in prison for a “fraud” that harmed no one. Such a state can’t tell right from wrong, so of course they can’t call this public riot for what it is — a race riot, racial thuggery. And being unable to call it what it is, they will be unable to fix it.

It will get worse. Moral confusion emboldens the violent and immoral.


22 posted on 08/25/2010 3:05:21 PM PDT by bvw
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To: Nervous Tick
“Whitey brings it on himself... by being whitey.”

Yes, we must question ourselves...

I wanted the music to play on forever
Have I stayed too white at the fair?
I wanted the clown to be constantly clever
Have I stayed too white at the fair?

23 posted on 08/25/2010 3:05:48 PM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (If Hayek were still alive, he'd be turning over in his grave.)
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To: DCBryan1
"I’ll be upgunning to my Colt Delta Elite 10mm for that night."

I do so miss mine :-( My ex-wife wanted custody of the money it was worth....

24 posted on 08/25/2010 3:06:13 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

:-)


25 posted on 08/25/2010 3:07:34 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
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To: DCBryan1

These people are creeping up to a line they REALLY don’t want to cross. I wonder how many people there were armed, but showed enough restraint not to draw or fire?

They’re playing with fire, and they’re going to get burned eventually. If someone is going to cause or is causing serious bodily harm, no one has to simply take it.


26 posted on 08/25/2010 3:07:34 PM PDT by scott7278 ("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked." BHO)
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To: KeyLargo

Oh, well—at least this incident inspired me to write a new tagline.


27 posted on 08/25/2010 3:08:09 PM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (If not for the double standard, liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: KeyLargo

“Des Moines police are investigating a string of attacks at the Iowa State Fair, and say they may be racially motivated.”

“Some teens had been yelling, “IT’S BEAT WHITEY NIGHT.”

Wonder what their fisrt clue was?


28 posted on 08/25/2010 3:08:14 PM PDT by rickb308 (Muslims need to check with Native Americans & ask how that whole cowboys & indians thing worked out.)
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To: bvw

MSNBC: Obama wins Iowa!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_BgZdI-ifw


29 posted on 08/25/2010 3:08:14 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

People are going to have to start going out in blackface just to be safe. How’s that for irony?


30 posted on 08/25/2010 3:09:17 PM PDT by scott7278 ("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked." BHO)
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To: oyez

They are disenfranchised yutes just getting their lives turned around.


31 posted on 08/25/2010 3:10:40 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (drain the swamp! ( then napalm it and pave it over ))
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To: KeyLargo
I hear the movie has a great "Beat Whitey" scene!


32 posted on 08/25/2010 3:11:40 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: scott7278

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7eDUSeNrI5E/R_DZe_gIc8I/AAAAAAAAAU8/A5V9-iWOuEc/s400/al+jolson+black+face.jpg


33 posted on 08/25/2010 3:12:29 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

“Most of our victims happen to be white. Is that a racial thing? I don’t know”
Now that sounds like your typical very stupid public employee.


34 posted on 08/25/2010 3:13:40 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) Obammy is little more than a quota boy.)
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To: oyez

They won’t spin it; they’ll ignore it.

No need to spin something that didn’t happen.


35 posted on 08/25/2010 3:15:00 PM PDT by Carling (Remember November)
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To: KeyLargo

That just makes sense, doesn’t it?


36 posted on 08/25/2010 3:15:24 PM PDT by bvw
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To: DTogo

So why didn’t “Whitey” go back to his pick up truck and empty the gun rack...??

Cause it weren’t TEXAS.


37 posted on 08/25/2010 3:16:35 PM PDT by dusttoyou (Let the other side get all wee-wee'd up, Remember come November)
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To: KeyLargo

is Iowa a ccw state?


38 posted on 08/25/2010 3:17:01 PM PDT by Charlespg
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To: KeyLargo

is Iowa a ccw state?


39 posted on 08/25/2010 3:17:06 PM PDT by Charlespg
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To: DTogo

“So why didn’t “Whitey” go back to his pick up truck and empty the gun rack...??”

Umm...because America has been so feminized that a redneck today is about where a poindexter was in 1960?


40 posted on 08/25/2010 3:17:53 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: KeyLargo
The Des Moines cops look like they have been neutered and told to tow the line. After 2 of them were attacked; this must be a tough pill to swallow, to hear this garbage:

http://www.kcci.com/news/24762096/detail.html

41 posted on 08/25/2010 3:20:48 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I aspire to a large carbon footprint; just like Al Gore's)
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To: scott7278; Charlespg
I wonder how many people there were armed, but showed enough restraint not to draw or fire?

The state fair is one of our many 'off limits' places - where we can't legally carry. Our law changes Jan 1, gonna make it quite a bit better...but I doubt the fairgrounds status will change.

42 posted on 08/25/2010 3:26:44 PM PDT by LearnsFromMistakes (Yes, I am happy to see you. But that IS a gun in my pocket.)
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To: iowamark

43 posted on 08/25/2010 3:27:15 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: forgotten man

I was thinking the exact same thing.


44 posted on 08/25/2010 3:31:09 PM PDT by freedomtrail (Real men dont pilot drones.)
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To: Joe Boucher
“Most of our victims happen to be white. Is that a racial thing? I don’t know” Now that sounds like your typical very stupid public employee.

It's actually the result of a lot of tax money going to psychological analysis and public perception. Leftists need to constantly challenge open, obvious truths in such a way that the liberal mind will doubt their own knowledge, and obey the Leftist insanity instead. So studies were made as to how to do this. You are looking at the result.

Just try the formula - and imagine you're saying these things to a liberal:

“Most of our apples happen to fall from the tree. Is that a gravity thing? I don’t know”

“Most of our water gets rid of dryness. Is that a wetness thing? I don’t know”

“Most of our boats happen to have hulls. Is that a floating thing? I don’t know”

“Most of our babies are born alive. Are they human beings? I don’t know”

See? The liberal would be seriously confused by these statements, and as a result would knee-jerk the "I don't know" conclusion for themselves to resolve the problem. Because to a liberal, these aren't statements to be rationally considered. Instead, they are instructions to be understood and obeyed.

And THAT is what makes a liberal, a liberal.

45 posted on 08/25/2010 3:32:17 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: KeyLargo

hope whitey’s got his guns.


46 posted on 08/25/2010 3:33:02 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (make something or die.)
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To: jimpick

:)


47 posted on 08/25/2010 3:34:35 PM PDT by mojitojoe ("The Arabic call to prayer is one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset." punk in chief)
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To: arthurus

I am trying to figure out what role, if any, the PD played in stopping this nonsense. They need to man up and let the boss know they aren’t gonna go home to lick their wounds from young boys and girls.


48 posted on 08/25/2010 3:38:09 PM PDT by healy61
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To: KeyLargo
Lori Lavorato said officers are still trying to figure out what role, if any, race had in the incidents.

Change your name to what it should be; Lori Lavatory.

49 posted on 08/25/2010 3:38:15 PM PDT by melancholy (It ain't Camelot, it's Scam-a-lot!)
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To: pgkdan
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50 posted on 08/25/2010 3:40:52 PM PDT by mojitojoe ("The Arabic call to prayer is one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset." punk in chief)
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