Housing Project Mob Ambushes Alton Firefighters With Bottle Rocket Attack
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 5:36 AM
Police and firefighters in Alton, Illinois were attacked three seperate times by a mob at the Oakwood Housing Complex with a barrage of bottle rockets and fireworks on the 4th of July.
KPLR reported:
The firefighters were called out three seperate times and were ambushed by the mob each time.
The Telegraph reported, via Jammie Wearing Fool:
The confrontations began at 10:20 p.m. and within the 40 minutes it took to resolve the first incident, police were attacked three times. It started when a firetruck was dispatched to extinguish a Dumpster fire in the 700 block of Oakwood and was immediately attacked by the crowd shooting and throwing fireworks at them.
According to two police reports, Patrolman First Class Walter Wetzstein and several other officers already were on their way to the scene because of the “large amounts of fireworks being set off at that location.” Both reports stated that in the past, fires have been set to “lure the fire department out so they could be attacked by fireworks.”
When officers arrived, they too were attacked “by the mob” with bottle rockets thrown from behind buildings. Police responded with pepper-ball guns and at one point pursued attackers in an attempt to restore order. Officers left when firefighters were able to extinguish the Dumpster fire but quickly returned to the housing complex because of reports of people shot or injured in the 800 block of Oakwood. Police did not find anyone injured but again were attacked by fireworks and again deployed pepper-ball guns to prevent attacks.
Officers were attacked a third time in the 700 block of Oakwood when they responded to reports of a truck fire; that turned out to be a box on fire. Officers had to leave when their pepper-ball guns were out of ammunition.
At 12:29 a.m. July 5, police and fire personnel again were dispatched to the Oakwood Housing complex for a Dumpster fire in the 800 block of Oakwood. Officers were attacked with bottle rockets and again deployed pepper-ball guns. When the fire department put out the fire, police requested the Dumpster in the 900 block be soaked down in an attempt to prevent it from being set on fire. Officers left at that time to respond to other calls.
“The Fourth of July is always a very busy time for us because of fireworks. It’s unfortunate that resources were tied up for a couple of hours like this” when the rest of the city might have needed them, Hayes said.
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David Johnson commented:
Is this what Oilbrahma had in mind when he implied that he was building a post-racial America? Will it heal the knot on that child’s head?
J. J. commented:
Thank you for bringing this shameful episode to the attention of a wider audience. People need to know that they cannot act like animals and treat police and fire fighters this way and expect them to come to their rescue when they are in trouble. I live and work in Alton and I am totally disgusted at the actions of this mob and feel they should be punished to the full extent of the law. I wish we could lock them up and throw away the key.
ahem commented:
They should just nuke the site from orbit.
Mark1957 commented:
The officers should have used real bullets on the mob. I have no sympathy for people that attack first responders.
Bill Fabrizio commented:
Perhaps it was the Black Panthers merely expressing their Eric Holder given constitutional right to attack the “crackers”!
moron commented:
Obama Justice Department said to arrest whites and let any minorities go and perhaps donate money for additional weapons.
Smoke Fire commented:
This is no surprise. Fire fighters have had this happened to them for years. The Bronx, Detroit, Cleveland, Watts, Newark. Only now it is happening in smaller cities. The ghetto mentality is spreading.
Pat the First commented:
A friend of mine was a rookie cop back in the 60s-70s and assigned to a precinct in an area of Seattle that was where the radicals lived. He said they would have to ride with the fire department because the firefighters would be shot at when they came to fight a fire.
Sounds like things haven’t changed much in the Land of Lincoln.
The only way to stop this is to let a house just burn if they are attacked. I know that would be hard to do.
Robert commented:
Entitlement mentality run amok.
Obama and Holder said it was OK.
Betsy Ross commented:
It’s 1969 all over again…when the anti-establishment weather underground hippies caused anarchy in the streets….calling law enforcement “pigs”….remember? Well, I do and this is their last chance to revive the good ol’ days of mayhem…
Auntie Em commented:
These are Obama’s little tar babies.
Highlander commented:
“… in the past, fires have been set to “lure the fire department out so they could be attacked by fireworks.”
Apparently people in the 700 block of Oakwood are traditionalists. How nice…
Granny commented:
There is some part of me that would love to say “wall them in and let them burn” but that would not be the American Way. Too bad there isn’t some magic way to tell the good people unfortunate enough to live in these neighborhoods from the rest of the mob.
Thunder on the Right commented:
While it could never be actually done in this day and age… it would serve this community right if the police and fire departments simply said they will no longer respond to calls to that neighborhood and that they will have to deal with their own problems! In short order the honorable people of that community would clean up the riff-raff and then public services could be restored!
down with dems commented:
At any given second, “society” is on the verge of collapsing to mob rule… there are way more people than authorities.
The firemen should have turned the hoses on these animals, and the police should have unloaded a few bullets.
Cruel and unusual punishment be damned, I want to see these idiots tied to a wall and have fireworks shot at their stupid faces.
An eye for an eye isn’t cruel and unusual, if it’s the same as what you inflicted on someone else.
jomojava commented:
Did the people in the “projects” use their ObamaCash to buy the fireworks?
Elly commented:
Animals, every single one of them involved with attacking the first responders.
Working hard to improve their lot in life I see…
I’m sure these are the same people Obama would lead us to feel sorry for and redistribute our incomes to..
martha commented:
I know it wo’nt happen as the fire and police depts are too professional, but maybe the next time the phone rings from that neighborhood, they should take their time and have a 2nd cup of coffee before they mosey on over there.
Of course if anyone got seriously hurt it would then be the fault of the police and fire depts…….
Tom63010 commented:
I know this is a technicality but only the lame fireworks are legal in Illinois, bottle rockets are illegal. Here are the ones that are legal all else require a permit to set off:
Sparklers: Legally Allowed
Smoke and Punk: Legally Allowed
Novelties: Legally Allowed
http://www.usfireworks.biz/legal/il.htm
greenfairie commented:
Don’t respond to these fires anymore. Let their rat holes go up in smoke. It’s not as though these looters pay taxes for those services anyway.
Jennifer commented:
Welcome to Obama’s America, where only law enforcement acts stupidly.
templar knight commented:
More hope and change, folks! And if you don’t think these animals will be in the forefront of an Obama assault on civil liberties, then think again. The Obama Justice Dept. has now thrown out the Equal Protection Clause in their handling of the Black Panther voter intimidation case, and we now learn that this Justice Dept. won’t protect white people, period. Under any circumstances.
My guess is that we will never get Obama out of the White House, nor ever have another fair election. We’ll see if I’m wrong come November.
Kevin commented:
This really isn’t surprising. I grew up in East St. Louis from 65-72 before hell hit the earth surface with “the new neighbors” that moved in.
Now Alton, parts of Belleville, North County, South St. Louis, all have a pattern. Democrat voters that look like Obama. Sorry folks, but that’s the truth.
jonyjoe101 commented:
Next time let the ghetto burn to the ground, no lost to the community.
When you give people free money, the act like fools.
Greg commented:
MSM Bulletin: Racist Teabagger’s children assault firefighters and police who were just trying to do their job. President Obama, upon learning that these kids were actually minority residents from a housing project, proposed providing them with $600,000,000 taken from rich white folks so that these individuals and their families could feel like they were now on the proverbial level playing field. Without actually having worked for it of course. Rahm Emmanuel was quoted as saying that in his opinion this would guarantee that most minorities would vote for Obama again in 2012. In a side note, it was noted that Democratic legislators have as yet failed to pass any legislation which involved spending that complied with their pledge 9 months ago to observe a pay as you go policy.
Dennis commented:
I understand a teenager and her mother showed up at a local hospital with a pepper ball wound. They should both have immediately been arrested as felons.
The police should respond to these types of incidents with automatic weapon fire. There’s obviously no one innocent in the line of fire. Then arrest everyone hospitalized. If anyone dies, try the hospitalized felons for capital murder. Hang the lot of ‘em.
oldguy commented:
Looks like it’s time to put down some of our pets.
Stanley commented:
The by product of an administration that chooses not to enforce the laws (black Panthers) of the land but chooses to punish those who abide by the law (Arizona) thus advocating violence and disrespect for the constitution they lied about upholding.
Atlanta Media Guy commented:
Was this a Public Housing complex in Alton? If so, any of the perps who were caught firing at a firefighter or police officer should be evicted from the property. If they collect welfare or food stamps they should be taken away as well. Just take away their freebies and send them to jail.
We have laws in this country. Even though our commissar in chief breaks the law constantly, lies and sues states trying to uphold the law, somehow we need to take our streets back.
I’m concerned since these folks think they can get away with anything, now that Holder and the DOJ dropped the Black Panther case, after winning it. Obama has sent race relations back 30 years, he is certainly no uniter, that’s for sure!
Jim commented:
Isn’t diversity a great thing?
Stanley commented:
JimNo Gravatar
July 7th, 2010 | 12:41 pm | #32
Isn’t diversity a great thing?
Yes, if you like Trojan horses.
Abayrat commented:
I am a retired Volunteer firefighter from NY. If I was attacked like that from the mob well they would receive the business end on the fire hose. At just hydrant pressure (about 45lb/square inch) it will knock you down and saturate you. A couple of responses like that and the attacks would stop.
A_Nonny_Mouse commented:
Granny – July 7th, 2010 | 9:16 am | #14
“There is some part of me that would love to say “wall them in and let them burn” but that would not be the American Way. Too bad there isn’t some magic way to tell the good people unfortunate enough to live in these neighborhoods from the rest of the mob.”
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This is the exact same problem that exists in Europe in the “no-go” zones. (And at least PART of the problem there, and also in Gaza, and I assume here as well, is that a certain percentage of the “peaceful civilian population” has great sympathy for, and offers material support to, the anarchists who are resisting rule-of-law.)
Authorities don’t want to confront the savages head on and virtually GUARANTEE a widespread riot and multiple casualties (with all the attendant blame and finger-pointing and resulting demotions which would ensue), even though that is probably what should be done — lance the boil now, else it will only grow more lethal with time.
So they let the lawless areas simmer with only nominal intervention, and the “freedom from consequences” attracts more criminals to the area, tipping that part of the city closer to anarchy.
As far as Progressives and Leftists go, this is a feature not a bug. It’s what they were hoping for back in the 60′s- rebellion in the streets and a populace willing to accept “hard rule” in order to have peace.
It didn’t work then, but this time around, they’ve got real economic crises to use as well. Cloward-Piven plus anarchists plus police and military hobbled by PC (think of the idiot Ft. Hood general “gee, it would be even worse if OUR DIVERSITY was affected by Major Hassan’s shooting spree”) and –they hope– a populace already used to looking to Big Government for solutions… The times are right for revolution, comrade! (There was an article at NeoNeocon a couple weeks ago to which a couple of commenters posted info about how many deep-Red communists were involved with the EU… food for thought.)
And here we are, with America’s Big Government looking favorably on the idea of Global Governance, transnational rights, the UN and the World Court as worthy arbiters of sovereign nations’ actions, and so on.
We’re on the cusp of a Real Problem here in the USA… we can choose to follow Europe into the cesspit of drab socialism, or we can claw our way back to being the “shining city on the hill”. (And that will be a world-class struggle, since even now Obama’s Administration has about a 50% approval — reversing course peacefully via the ballot box will be “iffy” at best).
We are going to have to dismantle generations’ worth of entrenched bureaucracies, and generations’ worth of laws that favor certain industries over others; that give subsidies to farmers not to grow certain crops; that permit government employees to unionize; that pay dysfunctional people to have children and avoid work. It may not be possible unless we overthrow all our current systems at once and totally rebuild our country from the Foundation up. That prospect scares the hell out of me; but going-where-we’re-going might just scare me worse.
Don Rodrigo commented:
Lurking in the background is the intent of the Obama administration to add whole new categories of “citizen volunteer” organizations. Remember that?
Be prepared for the recruitment of entire street gangs as “volunteer groups” under the guise of “rehabilitating” them. These will include black gangs like the Crips and Bloods (who would have to be kept in separate units!), and the largely non-citizen Latino gangs.
The organizational hierarchy is likely to have organizations like ACORN (or whatever they’re calling themselves now) heading the black “units,” and La Raza heading up the Latino ones. For cosmetic purposes, the gangs will be “disarmed” of their considerable arsenals, when actually, gang members who do not join the volunteer corps will be the “custodians” of both those arsenals and the considerable cash reserves and other assets these gangs already have. You see, the new “recruits” to the “volunteer corps” will “renounce” their gang memberships for public consumption. They may even be asked to bring token firearms to “surrender parties” or some such crap.
Stanley commented:
The Judas’s of our society have traded their God given unalienable rights in exchange for a life servitude not to God (Jehovah) but to a government who now takes the seat of God. Each in this case will be recompensed by their own hands.
Do not fear this is a winnable war!
Jim commented:
StanleyNo Gravatar
July 7th, 2010 | 12:53 pm | #33
JimNo Gravatar
July 7th, 2010 | 12:41 pm | #32
Isn’t diversity a great thing?
Yes, if you like Trojan horses.
I hope you realize I was being sarcastic.
Stanley commented:
JimNo Gravatar
July 7th, 2010 | 4:14 pm | #39
I do Jim.
DaveH commented:
There are locations in Los Angeles that first responders do not go.
In New York, the police motto to a reponse–Take your time.
Obama/Holder–You wanted a Racial America–You got it
seeyou commented:
Marc writes: “The officers should have used real bullets on the mob.”
Even better if both sides were armed to the teeth, no?
Percy commented:
They are exerciseing the rage as blacks for slavery they never wittnessed 200 years ago.
Every one owes them something and their muslim emporer Obama will give them whitey’s goods. They only thing they deserve is to go get a job and get off of the taxpayers back
Joslin commented:
According to Obama and his justice dept only whites will be prosecuted so all of these low life slim living in a low income houseing unit paid by hard working taxpayer suckers and dont appreciate anything but racist hate from the Rev. Wrights and Jackson will get a pass.
Obama is a apostle of racist division
archer52 commented:
This is nothing.
It is another housing authority (read poor black, lower class white and some Hispanics- but mostly blacks. It is what it is) event. When I was working for a city with an inner city set of housing authority apartments, it was always fun to be called there for something small and end up having to call for back up, get out shotguns and basically fight our way back out because our presence gave the locals the opportunity to riot and throw stuff. It was a game for them.
In South Chicago, for years and years, the locals would start fires, call the fire department and then ambush them from sniper positions. The police actually go with them and act as counter snipers to keep the locals off the roofs. The locals would drop cement blocks on the firefighters trying to kill them or shoot firearms from those same places.
Sometimes, in some areas, the police had to bring in helicopters to keep the locals off the roofs.
This was nothing. Or maybe somebody couldn’t find their gun. It shows the great divided between those who are responsible for their actions and those who feel they have the right to do what they want because they were told someone owed them something.
Watson commented:
I’m assuming from the comments that the miscreants were African American, right?
Don Quixote commented:
I say these people are heroes for attacking the jewish establishment. These good folks have more courage than the cowardly white slaves that currently infest America.
Fire Marshall Dan commented:
Let me tell ya somthing, fireworks don’t work when they get wet. next time tell the “mob” that every one has to go inside and who ever won’t comply will get wet. Then spray them with the hose, not directly but get them all wet to ruin the fireworks.