Two early morning fights near a club send a trooper and
a teenager to the hospital. Beer bottles and bricks were thrown,
damaging several police cars. Citizens are saying the early morning
brawl was sparked by racial tension, but law enforcement say that's not
the case. Ashburn Police and state troopers were called out
to several fights on West Madison Avenue, near the New
Traffic Light Bar. But when blue lights appeared, the fight took a
turn, sending one trooper to the hospital. Burgess said, "I heard he
got hit in the eye, or whatever, he deserved whatever he got tonight,
true enough."
Club owner Burgess says the injured trooper encouraged the brawl. "The
other cop tripped my nephew, busted his face all up and the
state patrolman hit him in the head with a flashlight and that's when
everybody got out of control." People started collecting bricks and
throwing them at law enforcement, busting police car
windshields. "Black people didn't like the way they've done us and they
unleashed," Burgess said. [more]
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