Watch: Fracas Outside Minneapolis Gay Bar Captured in Viral Tweet
A fight broke out outside a Minneapolis gay bar on Saturday night that was captured on video and posted to social media in a tweet that has gone viral. "The incident, that took place outside The Gay 90s on Saturday night, Oct. 15, also showed a police horse being assaulted and the officers yelling, 'Don't touch my horse,'" the Daily Mail reports.
In a tweet posted by Rebecca Brannon, the chaos shows women twerking on top of cars and yelling at a police horse as the cops tried to restore order. "The cops can be heard saying to "get out, keep moving" after the fight broke out in front of the bar, but the group continued to disobey, and started yelling at the police officers on horseback. One of the women appears to be stroking the officer's horse, to which he yells, 'Don't touch my horse.' And the woman shouts back, 'F*** your horse b****,'" writes the website Meaww.
Narrating and recording the video, Brannon wrote, "It's been some time since I went downtown at night given the crime and shootings. Saw a lot more chaos than I expected especially given how cold it was. Witnessed many cars running red lights and 'street racers' I couldn't keep up with - and cars blocking traffic."
She continues: "Police were scarce. Situations felt volatile in which I tried to keep my distance especially at fight break up in a bar parking lot. It was also completely chaotic outside the Gay 90s; there have been multiple shootings near there in the last few months alone." Last month a man was shot in the parking lot next to the Gay '90s and suffered life-altering injuries, CBS News reported.
"One night in Minneapolis. Assaults and fights, cars blocking traffic, street racing - and this was just a fraction of what I saw and was able to capture in passing last night," writes Brannon.
"The altercation came amid other scenes of debauchery outside the bar Saturday night, with one man clearly being assaulted as the shocking footage begins," adds the Daily Mail. "A group of men could be seen kicking the victim, who was already in the fetal position on the ground, until he rolls into the street. The victim then tries to get up, but is then kicked in the head by one of his attackers. He could then be seen trying to crawl away before the film cuts to EMS crews carrying an assault victim on a stretcher and lifting him into an ambulance."
The Daily Mail continues: "Other clips showed women yelling, pushing and punching each other outside the bar before the police showed up, as well as some women twerking on top of a car that was blocking traffic."
This comes after CNN reported 93 people were shot in the city last year and in 1995 when the city was nicknamed "Murderapolis." It now ranks 19th out of 70 jurisdictions in homicides per capita this year, DailyMail reports.