01-14-2019, 02:28 AM
For some time now, on Sundays, there is a drum-circle held on the beautiful front lawn of the Seaview subdivision, overlooking the ocean. A lot of the people are the Kehena beach crowd. They tend to migrate up the hill and the event kicks off around 4:30ish.
That drum-circle is full of very talented percussionists and man, let me tell you, they rock that place out! The beats are infectious and one almost cannot help but dance. It is usually a very lovely event with lots of space for tightrope walkers, fire-stick spinners, frisbee throwers, young children, picnicking families, dancers etc. Just a lovely gathering, "usually".
Yesterday however, it appeared as though one of the attendants had some sort of psychotic break. He was wearing old style white hemp shepherd type clothing and carrying a wooden staff as he was very loudly preaching. Apparently some people took offense at some point to his preaching. I was told that someone tried to punch him, (I didn't see it) but what I did see was his retaliation where he took his 5 foot wooden stick and struck someone in the back of the head with great force. The poor guy crumpled and fell unconscious as that blow hit him very hard and cleanly to the back of his head. It was brutal.
That lead to groups of people trying to mob the attacker and other groups trying to defend him and stop the violence. Unfortunately the violence turned into a local crowd vs. "haole" crowd thing. A very sour turn to an otherwise joyous event.
I wasn't near them, maybe 70 yards away or more but it's a big open area and was very easy to see. I called 911 (as did many others is discovered later). It took cops and ambulance over a half an hour to get there.
That drum-circle is full of very talented percussionists and man, let me tell you, they rock that place out! The beats are infectious and one almost cannot help but dance. It is usually a very lovely event with lots of space for tightrope walkers, fire-stick spinners, frisbee throwers, young children, picnicking families, dancers etc. Just a lovely gathering, "usually".
Yesterday however, it appeared as though one of the attendants had some sort of psychotic break. He was wearing old style white hemp shepherd type clothing and carrying a wooden staff as he was very loudly preaching. Apparently some people took offense at some point to his preaching. I was told that someone tried to punch him, (I didn't see it) but what I did see was his retaliation where he took his 5 foot wooden stick and struck someone in the back of the head with great force. The poor guy crumpled and fell unconscious as that blow hit him very hard and cleanly to the back of his head. It was brutal.
That lead to groups of people trying to mob the attacker and other groups trying to defend him and stop the violence. Unfortunately the violence turned into a local crowd vs. "haole" crowd thing. A very sour turn to an otherwise joyous event.
I wasn't near them, maybe 70 yards away or more but it's a big open area and was very easy to see. I called 911 (as did many others is discovered later). It took cops and ambulance over a half an hour to get there.
