Where is Epic Beard Man when we need him?

Arihood wants to be Weegee in the worst way.

"FDNY Rescues Tompkins Square Park Drunk Near Temperance Fountain"

GTFO! XD

this maybe one of these "flash mobs" .they are having problem down in philly with this large groups of people gather organized thru facebook and text messages and all hell breaks loose. in philly people got pulled out of their cars and beaten ,stores had to close the amount of people that showed up was crazy it had to be in the hundreds at least maybe up to a thousand .

ok, i have some legitimate information to add to the story... i live on ludlow street and woke up at around 4 am to what I can only describe as a "lord of the flies frat flashmob" going down in the middle of the street. I am a sound sleeper, and i live between houston and stanton so i'm used to sounds of saturday night revelry but this was way beyond. it sounded like a drum circle, people chanting, dancing in the streets, bystanders joining in as they walked by. the cops showed up and it just seemed to move on up the street, into the east village, where presumably this violence happened. so it didn't start as a bar fight but a bizarre street party gone awry. and it wasn't hoods, it was the bridge/tunnel crowd who didn't want to go home just because the bars closed.

That ain't the hood ! Yes LES was gangsta back before white folks came in and "Frapachino'ed" it up . That shit was a bar fight that just happened too spillout on the streets , You know the way all bar fights should .

Bob Arihood fucking ROCKS.

These arent East Village locals, just as someone else said here. BandT Clubbers after the club closed, walked around a bit, and then they got extra rowdy.

I lived on East 5th bet A and B 8 years ago. You'd get 3AM drugs and prostitutes issues every now and then, and it was mostly white and latino folks. These folks do not match the usual LES events.

Cool pictures.

I love how when told there were "still simmering conflicts around the corner on 6th street", the cop response was "they were the only unit available". I guess the rest of "New York's Finest" working the midnight tour from the 5th Precinct were staking out Dunkin' Donuts or maybe Critical Mass was having one of their anarchist bike rides and a level 1 mobilization was required to prevent them from disrupting traffic through the Union Square area.

John, your last sentence in this piece was awesome. :)

GET OFF MY CAR!!!

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uhm, you forgot to mention the one white victim, in one of the photos.

i think its interesting that the pussy cops preferred to take care of the one white boy's boo-boos than to actually do something to stop the fight.

What would you like 2 cops to do against a group of 50 that don't care about the police being on scene? They'll take care of the one victim who isn't cursing at them, and actually appreciates them, and wants their help instead of "i didn't see nothing, I don't need yo help"

"You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!"

...and why am i still not tech savvy?

Such a racist media - why is it we never hear of anything positive about our black peoples?

Why does the "culture" reward, glorify, and idolize criminal behavior, and looks down upon positive successes? The criminal is treated like the hero, and successes are called uncle toms.

It's funny, this probably was a bar fight because some guy tried to talk to some other guy's girlfriend, at which point words got exchange, at which point fists got exchanged.

Those kind of drunken fights over a girl are common to young drunk men of all races - because alcohol + women + horny men = conflict, a formula that's true everywhere in the world.

So why do folks have to make it racial??

Is it because you have some kind of global hatred of African Americans (no doubt all the more poignant now, what with one of us being your Commander-In-Chief) and you use any negative behavior by any Black person as an excuse to damn the whole race?

If a group of White guys got into a drunken bar fight, would you blame your entire race and it's culture for that?

It's funny, this probably was a bar fight because some guy tried to talk to some other guy's girlfriend, at which point words got exchange, at which point fists got exchanged.

Those kind of drunken fights over a girl are common to young drunk men of all races - because alcohol + women + horny men = conflict, a formula that's true everywhere in the world.

So why do folks have to make it racial??

Is it because you have some kind of global hatred of African Americans (no doubt all the more poignant now, what with one of us being your Commander-In-Chief) and you use any negative behavior by any Black person as an excuse to damn the whole race?

If a group of White guys got into a drunken bar fight, would you blame your entire race and it's culture for that?