Girl kicks policeman in the groin
15 to 20 kids ages 11 and 12
Bookshelf topped, garbage strewn
From the Madison Police Department report:
Madison police were called to the Madison Public Library’s Lakeview Branch, 28455 North Sherman Ave., at 4:58 p.m. Monday after a group of loud juveniles refused a librarian’s request to leave the building.
The librarian later told police some in the group have caused issues several times, over the past week, inside the normally quiet branch. When officers arrived the juveniles, who numbered between 15 and 20, announced they did not have to leave, that they did not have to listen to police, and that police could not touch them.
Despite protestations, officers spent 10 minutes trying to dialogue with the young people, until trying to escort some out. During the process, one girl kicked over a trash can sending refuse materials across the library floor.
She then kicked a male officer in the groin who had grabbed her arm. Another juvenile kicked a chair which hit and toppled a bookshelf.
Throughout the disturbance, young people were yelling and swearing at the officers while several recorded everything on their cell phones. One young person displayed gang signs. Another took off his jacket and postured as if he wanted to fight one of the officers. This child also knocked over a trash can, kicked over a chair, and rifled a half-filled bottle of juice across the library.
“The crowed outnumbered the police. They were loud and frenzied,” wrote a detective in his report. An officer wrote, in another report, that they were met “with angry belligerence and outright refusal to comply with a lawful command.”
The North District Community Police Team was brought in to back up the original four officers who had been dispatched. In the end, five juveniles were given municipal citations for infractions like disorderly conduct, trespass after notification, and resisting. Officers explained what took place to the children’s parents as those cited were released to adults.
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A Cherokee resident — This is what has been happening in our middle and high schools. There is a lack of respect for teachers and staff. Behavior incidents have doubled. When the kids get out of school, groups of them congregate in different locales creating disturbances, sometimes going place to place, creating more disturbances. Have seen this happen multiple times at McDonalds.
A Kennedy Heights resident — These incidents seem to be happening often at the library. My wife has witnessed them in the past and we don’t visit as often as we used to. There was another escalated incident last Thursday with a large group of kids about the same age. It’s sad but we won’t leave our kids alone at this library anymore. An 11 year old should be safe at the library but unfortunately, it’s not a safe place when this is happening. The group seems to be the same and if they are part of a program through the northside council it would make sense. They are loud and it’s clear they don’t respect rules or authority.
Westport resident — I saw and heard it too. Not sure what happened but I saw the police being incredibly kind and patient.
Sherman neighborhood resident — I’m sad to hear it was a NSPC program. You can’t expect the rest of the community to not feel safe at the library due to a program you are not able to control. Stop looking at the color of the kids skin…look at their behavior. We do a disservice to our youth when we have lower expectations of kids of color…they are not inferior. All kids are the same and should be treated the same and be held accountable for their actions.
Northside Planning Council plays the victim card
The Northside Planning Council became aware tonight (03-11-19) of an escalated incident involving middle school youth in one of our programs and the Madison Police Department. We know that one of the friends of our students was tackled by the officers, leaving her and her peers traumatized. We are reaching out to the students and their families to offer support and resources and to listen to them about what kind of response they would like to see. We recognize that regardless of the specifics of this incident, it falls within the broader context of the policing of communities of color, which is counter to our mission of fostering equity and improving the quality of life on the Northside.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: They shall hereby be known as the Northside Enablers Council.
58 responses to “Pre-teenaged chaos at the Library: ‘We don’t have to listen to police’”
Is this an attempt to create a false flag or incite in incident with police? Well, it didn’t work because our excellent police department by all accounts treated them with honor and respect – which they should be showing those in authority over them. The NPC’s response is so disgusting. Give me a break!
Don’t know who’s noticing or not, but the shit is hitting the fan.
I said a while back that we are sitting on a power-keg waiting for a lit fuse. It’s not a matter of “if” anymore, it’s a matter of “when”.
Multiculturalism….all cultures are equal. Social justice, even for the blind.
The difference between growing up watching Mr. Rogers and growing up playing violent video games and watching gangsta vids.
I played all the violent video games growing up, and watched GI Joe, HeMan and Thundercats — all violent cartoons. However, somehow I overcame these terrible influences and managed to never tear up a library, or kick a PO in the nads.
Put the blame where it belongs — on irresponsible parenting. And furthermore, support policies which penalize parents when they do nothing to correct the behavior of their children.
Maybe the Librarian should have called Ali Muldrow & Amanda Mirilli instead of the police since they think they know more than police teachers parents etc.
Adults can be banned from libraries when they behave this way. Maybe the same should go for teens. It makes me sad to see stuff like this; kids have not learned to respect themselves their parents teachers police etc. Their lives are in jeopardy unless they realize no culture would accept this behavior ; parents politicians & community activists are failing these young people.🙁
xxxxx xxxx xxxx
Any readers here who actually believe behavior will get better?
Cheatham for President.
Ali Muldrow:
“My opponent would like to do all kinds of things to black students: punish them, humiliate them, hurt them, silence them, suspend them, expel them— pretty much anything but teach them. That is theme in Madison: how we blame black children, how we hurt black children, how we get rid of black children, how we do not listen to black children. A lot of people are afraid to have a real conversations about race. We are a society that has always thought black children are unfit for education.”
You tell em Ali…
Uneducated feral youth (AKA future Big Gubmint dependent slugs/democrat voters) are becoming uneducable feral youth at warp speed.
The crushing irony is it happens in a freakin’ library; these illiterate sloths coudn’t spell CAT if you spotted them the C and the A.
And seriously…SERIOUSLY, the Thugs-in-Training are traumatized?
The world is being shaven by a drunken barber, and morons like the NSPC are holding the strop & the razor.
The broader context of the policing of communities of color is failing because parents of color are failing to show up for the work of tending their illiterate POS charges!
The Gotch
The educational achievement gap is truly and unfathomable mystery…
These “youth” should be treated (and dealt with) in accordance with the content of their character.
Shouldn’t social services share some blame here? Children are not being removed from their unfit parents. Or would that be racist?
Everything in Madison is racist…
“We don’t have to listen to the police, and you can’t touch us!”
Wonder where they got that Idea? And how many of those handed over to the parents later, were told they had done the right thing?
Good job for Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin for giving good liberals a bad name by bribing university officials to get their underperforming white kids into the Ivies. Surely, that can’t happen here in the Emerald City and its crown-jewel university!
Bit of a partisan stretch there, Mr. Dorn, considering that Felicity’s husband, William Macy, is such a well known and strident Republican. I doubt he was ignorant of this bribery scandal that helped their child; it was just his wife’s name on the checks. It’s the same old, old story of the wealthy thinking the rules don’t apply to them. And the wealthy? They’re usually conservative and Republican.
Don’t know, other Bob – I think there is plenty of liberal wealth to go around. Can’t find anything on my basic Internet search that sez Mr. Macy is a “strident Republican” – he seems more open-minded than most, though, which is a stretch for you sir.
@Bob Dorn;
”And the wealthy? They’re usually conservative and Republican.”
From that one might conclude that Lefties, (most, not all), are lazy, layabout freeloaders.
Fun Fact: the lyin’ theivin’ deceivin’ Hillarity outraised President Trump 20-to-Freakin’-1 in the White Billionaires department.
Oh, the humanity! Party of The People, am I right?
Anywho; don’t tell that to @AnonyBob, he’s suffering enough from severe shell-shock due to Lefty’s hilariously public implosion.
The Gotch
After a quick google search I can see why you’d question that. But I remember seeing Macy on the Letterman show enthusiastically boosting Bush “He’s my man!” Macy is a Republican. Not as obnoxious as, say, James Woods. But then again, he still gets work in Hollywood.
Unless they are corrupt university employees.
Remember the Baltimore Mom two years ago? She caught her Antifa son at a confrontation and slapped the mask off him on camera? Everybody from Whoopi to Al Sharpton applauded her. Make that video be watched by Black parents in Madison as the best lesson they could learn. Sooner better than later.
All Parents. Why limit it to blacks? Good parenting skills transcend race.
No Usual Suspect Lefties (Li’l Jeffy, et al) furiously slobbering their WOKE “I’m Dialed In” Virtual Signaling about this being the direct result of White Supremacy/White Privilege/Racism/Ad Infinitum/Ad Nauseum?
Curious, that…
The Gotch
fake news.
“For the love of god [richard lesiak], if you can’t post anything that adds to the conversation then STFU.”
The Gotch
Thank you, Gotch
You don’t tell me or anyone else to STFU you blowhard.
richard lesiak wrote, “You don’t tell me or anyone else to STFU you blowhard.”
Dave,
I think it’s time top ban this twit of a troll, Richard Lesiak.
@richard lesiak;
“You don’t tell me or anyone else to STFU”
Actually I do, and will again.
Funniest thing, you’re the only one whom I feel NEEDS to read it; seems I’m not alone on that, am I right?
The Gotch
Gootch is the blowhard twit that should be banned! Two votes for that!
@AnonyBob;
“Two votes for that!”
Whaddya know, a Lefty wanting to vote more than once because he thinks he’s morally right.
Priceless!!
The Gotch
Seems like a pithy and accurate statement to me. Gootch, your fervid attempts to shut Richard down indicate how threatening you find him, though you’ll never admit it. Amiright?
@AnonyBob;
Your hilariously off-base observation does nothing to enhance your dwindling credibility; quite the opposite, actually.
@richard lesiak sinks quickly under the crushing weight of his inescapable irrelevance, your laughable support has booked you one-way passage for the ride.
The Gotch
AnonyBob wrote, “Seems like a pithy and accurate statement to me.”
Pithy?
Accurate?
You obviously don’t understand what those words mean because Gotch’s comment was an accurate observation and not fake news.
It’s become quite obvious that Richard has become nothing but a hit-n-run troll on this blog offering up one self-inflicted intellectual slap down after another and his two word “fake news” comment above is another perfect example of his ignorant trolling. Why is it that a person, such as yourself, would choose to go out of his way to stick up for a troll like Richard with false rationalizations that don’t reflect intelligent thinking, and you seem to do it routinely?
AnonyBob wrote, “Gootch, your fervid attempts to shut Richard down indicate how threatening you find him, though you’ll never admit it.”
Do realize that the quote that Gotch shared in bold text above is something that trolling Richard originally wrote back on February 11, 2019 at 9:16 pm and I told him that his words would be “coming back word-for-word to haunt [him] on a regular basis”. What’s rally interesting is that his words back on February 11 didn’t get the same “your fervid attempt to shut _____ down indicate how threatening you find him, though you’ll never admit it” response from you.
What these things show me is how much of a unapologetic hypocrite you are. What you’re doing around here is exhibiting blatantly unethical behavior that shows a terribly corrupt set of morals.
AnonyBob wrote, “Amiright?”
In a word; NO!
The end.
You Commie pukes are about as threatening as bread mold…er, make that shower mildew, bread mold actually has a purpose.
Sarah Smith wrote, “You Commie pukes…”
It’s not clear who that statement was directed towards.
@Sarah Smith;
“bread mold actually has a purpose.”
Heh! Congrats; Gut Laugh Leader board entry!
The Gotch