Milwaukee Mayor attacked with a metal pipe

Mayor Barrett Recovering after Attack

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MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett remained hospitalized Sunday after a man attacked him with a metal pipe as the mayor tried to assist a grandmother screaming for help near the Wisconsin State Fair.

Barrett, 55, was in stable condition at a local hospital with a fractured hand and other head and hand wounds, official said.

The mayor had gone to the fair outside Milwaukee on Saturday night with his sister, two daughters and a niece. As the group left and walked to Barrett's car, they heard a woman screaming for someone to call 911, police said.

Police said the woman was a grandmother who was trying to protect her 1-year-old granddaughter from a 20-year-old man, an assault authorities characterized as a domestic dispute.

"The mayor stopped and said something (to the man) like, 'Let's all cool down here, I'm going to call 911,"' the mayor's spokesman Patrick Curley said. "He said it one or two times according to him. When he took out his phone, that's when the suspect attacked him."

Apparently the Mayor got dinged up a bit and he broke his hand when he punched the guy back, but he's doing OK. Nobody else was hurt, and the jerk who did this has been arrested. It all could have ended much worse.

This sounds like an antidote to me.

Maximilia wrote:

This sounds like an antidote to me.

Well, he did wind up in hospital...

rachel wrote:

Maximilia wrote:

This sounds like an antidote to me.

Well, he did wind up in hospital...

I hope he was insured.

Just thinking that the mayor, instead of calling for someone else or sitting inactive with a thumb up his butt, went to help a grandmother with her grandchild fend off an attacker. That's definitely an antidote. It sucks he got hurt, but it was in a noble cause.

EDIT: Spelling gud.

Let's hope his attacker spends a long time in the slammer.

Maximilia wrote:

This sounds like an antidote to me.

Whoa, I thought you meant it was an antidote because he was hit with the pipe.

Chris91 wrote:

Let's hope his attacker spends a long time in the slammer.

That tends to happen when mayors, especially big-city mayors, get personally involved in a case.

Lexin wrote:

rachel wrote:

Maximilia wrote:

This sounds like an antidote to me.

Well, he did wind up in hospital...

I hope he was insured.

You must be retarded. He's a mayor, all of Milwaukee will pay for it. Just because you live on another continent doesn't give you an excuse to be oblivious AND flippant.

Also, if the Mayor carried a gun, he would be just fine right now. :lolinsane:

Hmm... this sounds like a case of a young man raging against anyone and anything he can get his hands on.

The mayor was just trying to help. That's something that's rare in our politicians.
I'm just glad it wasn't a Texas politican that came to her rescue.