State Fair Time!

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A "Wilding" occurred at the Florida State Fair recently.

The "Colonel" looks pissed too.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HEuerQfbzo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HEuerQfbzo


This is the only video I could find on the subject. Nothing else on jewtube or liveleak.

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bit more and a "kid" died.



Authorities said the lawlessness is mostly confined to the first Friday. But they've never publicly shared details until Monday — after several media outlets, including the Tampa Bay Times, reported that 14-year-old Andrew Joseph III was kicked out of the fair Friday by deputies before he died while crossing Interstate 4 that night
Teens run wild during Florida State Fair's first Friday (http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/teens-run-wild-during-florida-state-fairs-first-friday/2164974)
more video of the "Colonel" at the link. He is saying 250-300 at some point in time for the size of the "wilding".

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Dad of teen killed after being tossed from state fair criticizes authorities

By Shelley Rossetter (http://www.tampabay.com/writers/shelley-rossetter), Jessica Vander Velde (http://www.tampabay.com/writers/jessica-vander-velde) and Marlene Sokol (http://www.tampabay.com/writers/marlene-sokol), Times Staff Writers

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TAMPA — The father of a teenager killed crossing Interstate 4 hours after being ejected with dozens of others after last week's melees at the Florida State Fair criticized fair and law enforcement officials Tuesday for the way they handled the aftermath.
"I want to see the Sheriff's Office and the state fair stand up and say, 'Our polices and procedures didn't work," said Andrew Joseph Jr., whose son, Andrew III, was struck and killed late Friday as he tried to cross the interstate. "To say, 'Maybe we do need to look at them. Maybe they are outdated.' I want to see somebody say, 'We did this wrong.' "
Andrew was killed about three hours after he was ejected from the fair. His father said he wishes the Sheriff's Office would have arrested his son and taken him to the Juvenile Assessment Center if he had done wrong -- not just taken him to the gate and instructed to leave.
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"I wish they would have taken him to the JAC, because then I would have my son now," Joseph said.
On Tuesday — four days after hundreds of teens had run out-of-control through the fair — the Sheriff's Office, School Board and leaders in the black community started talking about a solution.
On Friday, about 200 deputies could not control the chaos on the midway. Ninety-nine people were ejected, and 12 arrested.
Col. Jim Previtera said the Sheriff's Office is making several changes, and considering many more, but that its ejection policy will likely stay the same.
Joseph and the others were dropped off at Gate 4, near Orient Road. Deputies expect them to call for a ride. Authorities don't monitor the children.
Sheriff David Gee said it "wasn't logistically possible" to call all the teens' parents, given the scope of the chaos inside. Deputies estimate hundreds of teens were running through the fair, dozens of them fighting each other.
The vast majority of the teens were black, which prompted Gee on Tuesday to write to several leaders of the black community, asking for help.
Pastor Moses Brown, of Pastors on Patrol, told a reporter that his group will gladly work with the Sheriff's Office. He hopes educating students and involving them in the planning process might make strict enforcement next year unnecessary.
He said the fact that most of the teens were black is "embarrassing." He hopes that through education, Pastors on Patrol can instill a pride in the black youths, which might motivate good behavior, he said.
"When you take pride in where you come from, you sometimes refrain from expressing a lot of your hostilities in public," he said.
Pastor W. James Favorite, of Beulah Baptist Institutional Church, said he also hopes to work the deputies — but he also wants to see deputies revamp their ejection methods. He said leaving children, including Andrew Joseph, alone at the gate was a bad decision.
"It would have been better to arrest him," Favorite said. "It would have been safer to have someone pick him up."
Previtera said the Sheriff's Office is not considering setting up a detention pen or any place where they could hold unaccompanied minors. Deputies would be detaining the children — whom deputies are not planning to arrest — which would create legal issues, he said.
Meanwhile, Hillsborough County's top school officials said Tuesday that the problem of students misbehaving at the fair needs to be addressed, but none of them favored doing away with an annual student day off to attend the fair.
Superintendent MaryEllen Elia said the school district is considering a public education campaign to tell students how to behave, similar to what is done before Gasparilla events.
"We all have a responsibility to make sure this is a family-friendly environment," she said, adding that student behavior has "always been an issue" for the district.
Every year, she said, the district meets with law enforcement and the fair authority after the fair is over to see how things went, she said. This year's fair ends Feb. 17.
Sheriff's officials said that every year, dozens of unsupervised minors go through the fair's midway, robbing patrons, stealing food and battering deputies.
"It's not our place to manage the fair but we do need to have some conversations about it," said School Board member April Griffin, who brought up the topic at the board's meeting.
Board member Doretha Edgecomb, responding to Elia's idea about a public education campaign about the behavior, urged the superintendent to reach out to grass-roots community organizations as well. "We've got to reach every kid and tell them how to behave at the fair," she said.
This type of educational response has been used before each Gasparilla Parade, which sees underage drinking — though mostly among white teens. Police say it has been a success, though the problems have not disappeared.
In Sheriff Gee's letters to the Hillsborough NAACP, the Sheriff's Black Advisory Council and Pastor Favorite, he calls for a discussion of how to stop Friday's disorder from happening again. He wrote that law enforcement alone won't prevent incidents like this in the future. He wants to come up with a holistic approach.
Absent in the letter was any onus on the Florida State Fair Authority, which puts on the annual fair.
The fair often sees chaos on the first Friday. Students get the day off school, and admission is free. The authority said Monday that it was working with the Sheriff's Office and implementing the agency's recommendations.
As far as administrative responses — such as creating a curfew or closing early — the Sheriff's Office said that would be up to the Fair Authority.
For now, deputies are mostly focused on carrying out the rest of the week without incidents.

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