With a cast on his hand and a gash on his face, Mayor Tom Barrett met the press this week to talk about his fight to protect a child and grandmother.
Barrett, the Mayor of Milwaukee, was leaving the State Fair last
weekend when he heard a woman screaming for help. Barrett saw she was
holding a baby.
As Randy Travis sings, "you know a hero from a coward when you see which way they run."
Authorities say Barrett ran straight into a "domestic violence"
incident, and got between a menacing Anthony Peters, 20, and a
grandmother and child.
"West Allis Police Chief Michael Jungbluth said the attack on the woman
stemmed from a domestic situation, in which an intoxicated Peters
wanted to see his year-old daughter, and had threatened to shoot
himself and others," reports CNN.
Barrett fought Peters off, but was beaten badly with a metal pipe.
President Barack Obama called Mayor Barrett in the hospital to thank him for his actions.
News reports say that the alleged assailant's family is now publicly
defending him, claiming that he never would have been arrested if the meddler he beat was not the mayor. When asked about comments by Peters' mother, the mayor
simply said, "Maybe it's important that a mother's love is blind."
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The National Association to Protect Children is a national, pro-child, anti-crime membership association. We are founded on the belief that our first and most sacred obligation as parents, citizens, and members of the human species is the protection of children from harm.
PROTECT is a bipartisan pro-child, anti-crime lobby whose sole focus is making the protection of children a top political and policy priority at the national, state and local level.
