The person who shot this is totally in stealth mode, clearly nervously trying to keep this camera out of sight of the scene. The scene? Crazy student gets arrested for throwing a water bottle at a fellow University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student during class. Based on the clip, she let it escalate to this point. But wow, we’re glad we’ve never had a class quite like this. source
That’s what made Milwaukee famous? The mayor of Milwaukee learned last night that doing nice things for people can end up in tears. After chilling at the Wisconsin State Fair, Mayor Tom Barrett heard a woman screaming, and went to help her. Instead, he got beat by a man with a lead pipe. What is this, River City Ransom? Barrett was in stable condition in the hospital, while the 20-year-old who did this to him was arrested. You know, we could use fewer pipe beatings, not more. source
I think it’s a strange choice for them … Irony is an overused word, but that’s somewhat ironic in this case.
Warwick Seay a.k.a. Warlock • Owner of the Circle-A Café in Milwakee’s uber-hip Riverwest neighborhood (where, strangely enough, we used to live) describing Wisconsin’s new logo for the Government Accountability Board, which looks a lot like the anarchy logo. So, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Disclosure: We used to work there back in the day) went out to find some hipsters to ask about this, and got this choice quote. • source
