Black people 'going after white guys' in Wisconsin State Fair mob attacks

Violence erupted on the opening night of the Wisconsin State Fair in what police and witnesses are calling racially-charged mob beatings.



At least seven people were hospitalised after a rowdy crowd of fairgoers began plucking people out of cars and off motorcycles to beat them.



The number of attackers ranges from dozens to hundreds as police try to sort out exactly how many people were injured late Thursday.



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Milwaukee police said Friday that calls were still coming in from fair attendees who were injured in the violence.



Witnesses and police said the attacks appeared to be racially-motivated.



Fairgoer Norb Roffers told Newsradio 620 WTMJ: ‘It looked like they were just going after white guys, white people.'



'They were attacking everybody for no reason whatsoever.’



Savage violence: Police made dozens of arrests stemming from the mob violence on the opening night of the Wisconsin State Fair

Eric, an Iraq war veteran who declined to give his last name, said attackers were 'knocking people off their motorcycles.'



He said: 'All I kept thinking was, 'There's not enough cops to handle this. There's no way. It would have taken the National Guard'



Enough police presence? One witness said it would have taken the National Guard to contain the mobs

The fair's communication director, Kathleen O'Leary, said: ‘We had complete control inside of what was happening inside of our gates.'



She added that the problem was 'what spread into the neighbourhoods.'



But one worker said that wasn't true, as 50 to 100 African American teens looting for game prizes and starting fights within the confines of the fair.



State Fair spokeswoman Patrice Harris said a number of arrests were made, mostly for disorderly conduct.