Fillmore Jazz Festival SF Fight With Bouncer July 4th (Caught On Camera)

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Fillmore Jazz Festival SF Fight With Bouncer July 4th (Caught On Camera)

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http://ift.tt/1GBpCJE – Fight With Bouncer At SF Fillmore Jazz Festival 4th Of July: Doing Job With Patron on July 4th 2009.

Saturday July 4th was a great day to be out-and-about in the San Francisco Bay Area. A tradition shared by my friends and I — and thousands of others — is to attend the Fillmore Jazz Festival, which is a good 10 blocks of music, food, and fun. One of the favorite stops along the stretch is Harry’s Bar, which serves up a great combination of beautiful people dancing and socializing to funk and rock music. After hanging with friends inside, a group of us ventured outside as it was just too hot. I came back later, but after perhaps a few minutes inside, determined that the outdoor weather was better.

I go to Harry’s each year with the same group of friends — except we didn’t see Monte Poole this year — so I’m used to the vibe during the festival. I give the staff a lot of credit for keeping the crowd at a manageable level; not that it was ever out of control in the past, or this year for that matter. But in past years one could not even pass through the place with ease; not so on Saturday. The relative calm of the party made the incident I’m about to explain all the more, well, weird.

There was a patron that was giving the Bouncer and the patrons inside a real hard time as the video will show; a guy with a “3″ on his back. At first I ignored him and talked to my fellow Oakland friend on the curb, but given the way he was behaving — at first taunting the bouncer to fight, but then more and more relentlessly so — I could not do so. I activated my camera and just stood on the curb holding it up.

The Bouncer had told the patron to leave as he had too much to drink, was beligerent, and had been given a number of warnings. For a beat, it actually looked like “Number 3″ (as I will call him) was going to just walk away. But something happened — for some reason it was really important for him to get back in the bar — and he started to ask the bouncer “Are you black or white” (the bouncer’s black as is the patron), and he repeated the question again and again. The bouncer said “As long as you stay back away from the door you can say anything.” For many of the onlookers, the patron was a source of comic relief; a woman walked up and started dancing sexily behind “Number 3″. We kept saying “Turn around. It’s more fun behind you.” But he didn’t. Number 3 was locked in on the person he believed to be his tormentor: the Bouncer.

There were several voices asking for someone to call the police, and another voice said “they’ve been called.” (Don’t know if there were any Twitter tweets at the time.) Still the police never came. The bouncer asked for the police to be called. Nothing. Not even security. At that point, “Number 3″ decided to violate the space the bouncer told him to avoid and pointed his finger right in the bouncer’s face. To me, it seemed like he was about to hit the bouncer. So the Bouncer took a look at his partner, and then kind of grabbed him and put him into a hold, and as soon as he had him on the ground said “I’m going to hold him until the police arrive.”
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