6 charged in attack on dad protecting daughter at Valleyfair

[Mugu]

By ABBY SIMONS, Star Tribune

The father of a 12-year-old girl who tried to keep a young man from groping his daughter at a popular Shakopee amusement park was seriously hurt late on July 4 after he was allegedly kicked and stomped by a group of men in an attack police called "brutal."

The attack on the unnamed man, which happened just outside Valleyfair Amusement Park, resulted in charges against at least six Twin Cities-area men. They were among several people the initial attacker called on his cell phone to summon them to join the assault.

The group beat up the father as his wife and daughter looked on, police said. The man was seriously injured and unconscious when police arrived. "We see assaults, but that's brutal," Shakopee police Sgt. Jay Arras said.

Arras said the man and his family were leaving Valleyfair shortly before midnight on July 4 when a man "tried to grab the 12-year-old girl in a sexual manner" near the park exit, the father later told police.

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[Pierre.Suave]

1. Jesus...

Everytime I hear a story like this, I get closer and closer to carrying...

edit: in case anyone is unaware, I live in the same general metro area where the event happened...

[elehhhhna]

2. omg. My hubs would have punched that guy so hard he'd never

have had a chance to call his pals for backup.

Moral: Hit 'em hard, and fast, then get away.

[jody]

3. Such incidents are occurring more frequently as gangs realize courts will let them off with token

sentences.

IMO those gangs hate everyone and may present the biggest threat to the culture that spawned them.

Are such crimes tracked on the Southern Poverty Law Center's Hate Groups Map?

[SidneyCarton]

4. These guys are a class act.

They all stand up for the right of their friend to grope and sexually harass/molest young girls.

:sarcasm:

I agree with the poster upthread, things like this make me think that carrying may not be a bad idea. That said, in such a world it's likely that this kid's friends would have shot the father in order to allow the groping. Good freakin grief, what the hell is going on here?

[Pierre.Suave]

5. The best thing would have been to

end the groping, and leave the scene as quickly as possible while alerting police.

I have no idea why he stuck around, but damn, I think more and more about carrying when I hear shit like this.