08-18-2009, 04:00 AM
<!--emo&:o--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ohmy.gif' /><!--endemo--> John Barrett said the assailant threatened to use a gun during the altercation Saturday night and then punched the 55-year-old mayor so hard in the stomach that he buckled.
The man then told Barrett to lie face down on the ground.
"This is when Tom thinks 'Yikes, this guy could kill me,'â" John Barrett said.
At that point the mayor came up swinging and the assailant, Anthony J. Peters, opened up an extendable, police-style baton and started beating him, John Barrett said.
Yet, his brother said, the mayor is still cracking jokes.
"He did say he will never play the piano again, but he never played the piano to begin with," said John Barrett, who said he visited his brother twice Monday at the hospital.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/53477862.html
The man then told Barrett to lie face down on the ground.
"This is when Tom thinks 'Yikes, this guy could kill me,'â" John Barrett said.
At that point the mayor came up swinging and the assailant, Anthony J. Peters, opened up an extendable, police-style baton and started beating him, John Barrett said.
Yet, his brother said, the mayor is still cracking jokes.
"He did say he will never play the piano again, but he never played the piano to begin with," said John Barrett, who said he visited his brother twice Monday at the hospital.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/53477862.html