Thread: Police: Man assaults bar patrons over Obama win

Edward Lewis elewis@timesleader.com

KINGSTON - A 70-year old man was charged earlier today with biting the nose of another man because police said he was upset that Barack Obama won the presidency.

Alexander J. McKenna, of South Landon Avenue, was charged with three counts each of simple assault and harassment, and one count of disorderly conduct and public drunkenness. He was released on $2,500 unsecured bail.

According to the criminal complaint:

Police were called to Pizzle's Bar on Cherry Street at about 2:20 a.m. Wednesday for a man, identified as McKenna, swinging a cane at other patrons.

Police found McKenna on the ground yelling obscenities, the criminal complaint says.

Joe Blight and Ronnie Blight told police, the criminal complaint says, that they were inside the bar when McKenna began screaming obscenities about President-elect Barack Obama winning the presidential election.

McKenna walked across the bar and bit Joe Blight on the nose, and swung his cane at Ronnie Blight, according to the criminal complaint.

McKenna told police, according to the criminal complaint, that he was drunk and upset Obama won the presidency, and took out his anger on the Blight brothers.

A preliminary hearing is tentatively scheduled for Nov. 13 in Central Court.

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This is Kingston, Jamaica, right?

Never, never mix politics and alcohol...especially at a place called Pizzle's Bar!

Originally Posted by vortex

This is Kingston, Jamaica, right?

Thats Kingston, PA

Originally Posted by vortex

This is Kingston, Jamaica, right?

No, it's Kingston, PA ... just outside Wilkes-Barre, PA area (about a half hour north of Hazleton).

Well, I'd like to know what the Blight brothers said or did to the elderly man with a cane to make him feel threatened enough to bite someone's nose.

It's strange and I bet there's more to the story.

Sounds like Jim beam and Johnie Waker may have had a hand in starting the fight

Originally Posted by jimpasz

Sounds like Jim beam and Johnie Waker may have had a hand in starting the fight

LOL.......never get into it over relegion and politics.

Its hard to picture a 70 yr old man with a cane sitting in a bar at 2:30 am biting the nose of another patron.