Not Booing Milwaukee Bucks Leads to Brawl, Police Say

Getting into fights over sports teams happens often, but getting into a fight because you don’t jeer the home club is a bit of an oddity.

Two Greenfield roommates were cited for disorderly conduct – domestic violence after police say they got into a fight in the parking lot of the apartment complex they live in at 2 a.m. March 29.

According to the Greenfield Police Department report, a 20-year-old woman called police to report her 19- and 18-year-old roommates were in a fistfight outside their apartment in the 3300 block of South 110th Street.

When a police officer arrived, he saw two shirtless teenagers facing each other with fists raised and ready to fight. The officer ordered them to cease, but they simultaneously lunged at each other and exchanged blows.

The fight lasted for only a few seconds before the men listened to the officer’s demands to end the fighting.

The woman told police the three of them and a fourth roommate, a 30-year-old man, went to the BMO Harris Bradley Center earlier that evening to watch the Milwaukee Bucks take on the Los Angeles Lakers. The 19-year-old man would not boo the Bucks, leading the 30-year-old and 18-year-old, both Lakers fans, to verbally harass him and call him names, the woman told police.

Once back at the apartment, the 30-year-old urinated in a garbage can in the 19-year-old’s bedroom.

An altercation took place inside the apartment before the two younger men finally went outside to fight.

The 18-year-old was arrested for disorderly conduct - domestic violence for threatening the woman after she urged him and the 30-year-old to stop harassing the 19-year-old and for fighting.  The 19-year-old was also cited for disorderly conduct – domestic violence for fighting.

Alcohol was believed to be a contributing factor in the fight.