Thaindian News

Aug 20 (IBNS) Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett’s niece sought the aid of a 911 operator after seeing a man roughing him up, saying her uncle was bleeding all over the place.

A miscreant attacked the mayor as the latter tried to help the woman and her one-year-old granddaughter near the Wisconsin State Fair on Saturday.

“My uncle just tried to step in and the guy took a stick to him and hit him over the head and he’s bleeding all over the place,” the niece of Barett (55) said. Consequently, the emergency calls were released.

The mayor was released on Monday from the hospital where he received treatment for a shattered hand, missing teeth and gashes on his face and head. He is expected to give a public statement from his home on Wednesday.

It was reported that after leaving the fair on Saturday night, Barrett was walking back to his sister’s car with her, his two daughters and his niece when they heard a grandmother call for help. When Barrett tried to call 911, the 20-year-old man allegedly attacked him, police have said.

“My granddaughter’s birth father just tried to pull her out of the car, broke my cell phone, threatened to shoot us and to shoot himself,” the grandmother said in a separate 911 call released Tuesday.

The man has been arrested. Kent Lovern, the chief deputy district attorney in Milwaukee County, said in an e-mail that he did not anticipate that there would be any charges in the case before Wednesday afternoon.