I don't know why these things keep happening in Milwaukee, but here we go again:

MILWAUKEE -- Milwaukee's Juneteenth Celebration ended in violence after a man was dragged from his car and beaten.

Milwaukee police said an officer was also hurt while trying to break up a fight during Tuesday's celebration.

Several thousand people attended the festival celebrating the end of slavery.

Things turned violent when the festival came to a close, police said.

Police said a 33-year-old man was hurt when hundreds of teenagers swarmed around traffic in the area of North First and West Chambers streets.

They said people rocked the man's vehicle, smashed the windows, dragged him out of the car, and kicked and hit him.

He was treated at an area hospital for cuts on his face and a broken tooth.

He told police he has no idea why he was targeted.

However, in the pictures and the video here, the crowd is black, and while the driver cannot be seen clearly, in this video the driver also appears to be black.

So unless I'm wrong, there doesn't seem to be even the possibility of a black-on-white racial aspect to this. Just cars being attacked. That previous link details several other incidents at the same event:

In one incident, a crowd surrounded a black car stuck in traffic at 2nd and Burleigh. A couple of teens jumped on top of the car. One smashed out the rear windshield. The driver stayed in the vehicle and escaped unharmed. He smashed into the car ahead of him trying to speed away from the attackers.

Further down the street, a woman in a gold car stopped after a teen jumped onto the back of her car. She got out and yelled at the teen, then she got back in a tried to speed away, also hitting the car ahead of her.

A short time later, at 1st and Burleigh, the crowd surrounded a red car, pounding on the hood and trunk and breaking out the windows. /after a woman reached into his open window, the driver got out, was kicked in the head by a man and fell to the ground. He was taken to the hospital for treatment.

In another incident, police said a young woman hit an officer in the face as the officer was trying to break up a large fight near 1st and Auer. The blow shattered the officer's face shield. The officer was cut by the shattered face shield and needed stitches at the hospital.

Attacking cars seems to be the latest trend. In Berkeley and San Francisco, crowds don't need the breakup of a Juneteenth celebration either. Just the fact that people are driving gasoline powered vehicles is enough.

What the attackers in all of these instances seem to be forgetting is that cars have an automatic physical advantage. I wouldn't be surprised if sooner or later a driver realizes this, and uses his car in what might have to be considered self defense.

But then again, it might not.

The problem is that mobs of attackers are usually surrounded by innocent people, so using a car against individual attackers might be akin to firing wildly into the same crowd. The difference is that a car can be used both as a weapon, and as a means of escape. But OTOH, a gun is more accurate as a self defense weapon than a car.

It might be more humane to arm the drivers.