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Wisc beating victim: 'They just said "Oh, white girl bleeds a lot"' + Riverview Gas Station Mob Raid

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Shaina Perry remembers the punch to her face, blood streaming from a cut over her eye, her backpack with her asthma inhaler, debit card and cellphone stolen, and then the laughter.

"They just said 'Oh, white girl bleeds a lot,' " said Perry, 22, who was attacked at Kilbourn Reservoir Park over the Fourth of July weekend.

Though Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn noted Tuesday that crime is colorblind, he called the Sunday night looting of a convenience store near the park and beatings of a group of people who had gone to the park disturbing, outrageous and barbaric.

Police would not go quite as far as others in connecting the events; Flynn said several youths "might" be involved in both.

"We're not going to let any group of individuals terrorize or bully any of our neighborhoods," Flynn said.

Perry was among several who were injured by a mob they said beat and robbed them and threw full beer bottles while making racial taunts. The injured people were white; the attackers were African-American, witnesses said.

Store video of the BP station at E. North Ave. and N. Humboldt Blvd. shows the business being ransacked. A clerk at BP confirmed to the Journal Sentinel that he was busy waiting on customers when one or two people held the door open to let others rush in and steal snacks and candy.

Not far away, 20 to 25 friends from Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood had gathered at the park shortly before midnight to watch some fireworks set off by a neighbor. In interviews with 11 people who said they were attacked or witnessed the attack, a larger group of youths appeared in another section of the park around midnight and were joined by more young people running up the park's stairs.

At some point the group of friends and the group of youths intersected; those interviewed said the attack appeared to be unprovoked.

"I saw people dancing and I figured they were just having a good time," said Riverwest resident Jessica Bublitz, 28.

Minutes later Bublitz saw a male friend hit in the temple and fall down. Her fiancé told her to run to safety. James Zajackowski, 28, said things suddenly turned chaotic.

"Within 30 seconds to a minute, bottles were flying and people started getting punched. I was in shock. I thought, 'Really? Is this really happening?' I was on the ground, people were trying to get into my pockets, I could feel their hands but I held on to my cellphone and my wallet," said Zajackowski, a census worker.

Emily Mowrer, 27, was not hurt but saw her friends beaten and punched and full beer bottles thrown at them. Her boyfriend was punched. She saw Perry lying with blood on her face, not moving. She called 911 on her cellphone.

"I saw some of my friends on the ground getting beat pretty severely. They got away with one of my friends' bikes. Some people had their wallets stolen," said Mowrer, who owns a house with her boyfriend in Riverwest. "It didn't seem like it was a mugging - it seemed like an attack. Like they weren't after anything - just violence."

Andy Lange, 29, a social worker who has lived in Riverwest for 10 years, said one of his friends was hit in the head with a bottle and needed staples to close the wound. Lange said he was struck in the face and didn't even see who hit him.

Perry needed three stitches to close a cut above her eye. She said she saw a friend getting kicked and when she walked up to ask what was happening, a man punched her in the face.

"I heard laughing as they were beating everybody up. They were eating chips like it was a picnic," said Perry, a restaurant cashier. "All I remember is seeing bright lights (after the punch), then my backpack was gone and blood was spurting out of my head."

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  • bunch of filthy fucking animals

  • niggas are lazy get a job

  • Niggers are dirty, animals!

  • Not to stray from the point, but that chick is really cute. She's got a nice curvature to her too, no kiddy body. mmmmm...

  • Hell yea I hate niggers, I experience the shit they do first hand every day of my life. They are dissresespectful arrogant niggers, this is why you scumbags were enslaved and beat. Because you cant be trusted with a little freedom. This is the exact reason I got my pistol permit, one of you scumbag niggers try to touch me your getting a bullet in the face as well as all your homeboys with you nigger,

  • @CHRISTEN9844 I don't hate black people, period. So no, I'm not racist. I hate black people LIKE YOU because you think saying "go fuck yourself cocksucker" is a way to win an argument. I hate that I can't call out black people LIKE YOU because then I'm accused of racism. I'd have no problem with 90% of black people, except they all defend the 10% like you who need to be neutered and put back in chains.

  • @EvilDanHalen that was funny cracker you hate african people because kinky hair but your not racist? go fuck yourself you cocksucker

  • @ldchappell1 amen

  • @CHRISTEN9844 I believe the stereotypes because I've seen them first hand. You ARE a stereotype, does that even register in your thick, sloping cranium? I'm NOT racist. I don't hate black people because they're not white. I hate people who happen to be black because they cause many more problems than any other group. If racism is holding black people back, go live in Haiti or Detroit or Darfur or Somalia or Rwanda or any other 90-100% black area. Just don't expect to live very long

  • What the hell is WRONG with these black parents? Instead of teaching your kids that they're victims of the white race and whatever you can steal is fine, TRY TEACHING THEM HONOR AND SELF RESPECT. 

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