Keith Fair

A Racine alderman has been accused of behaving badly. Alderman Keith Fair was arrested early on Sunday morning for attacking a female employee from his bar, Place on 6th.

To make matters worse, the employee is pregnant.

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

A City of Racine alderman has been arrested on accusations of strangulation or suffocation, false imprisonment, battery and disorderly conduct. The four would all be felony charges.

Alderman Keith Fair, 59, is accused of choking and striking a female employee of the Place on Sixth bar, which he owns, Friday evening, the Racine County Sheriff's Office said in a news release Sunday. The woman is eight weeks pregnant. Fair is being held at the Racine County Jail on $10,650 bail.

Racine County sheriff's investigators arrested Fair at the bar and searched the bar, at 509 6th St., and his home. They also impounded Fair's car, which they believe was involved in the incident.

"This was a brutal attack," Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling said in a news release Sunday. "Alderman Fair's alleged actions in this incident are not only concerning, but alarming."

The sheriff's office did not release details of what happened during the incident, but the Racine Journal Times reported online Sunday that Schmaling told the paper the two were friends.

"There was an argument between him and her at the bar," Schmaling told the paper. "He would routinely give her a ride home. They have a working relationship and a friendship. Things turned physical en route to her destination."

The Journal Times also quoted Schmaling as saying the victim's injuries came to light when she went to a hospital with a medical problem and hospital workers discovered them.

Fair started a two-year term as alderman representing District 1, which includes the city's downtown district, April 19, and is scheduled to end his term April 15, 2013.

It's not Fair's first run-in with police. In late April, he was cited for disorderly conduct after he allegedly "blew up" at an employee of Flowers by Walter who had approached him to clean up garbage, litter, beer bottles and broken glass near his bar, according to the Journal Times.

It seems Fair has a serious anger management problem.

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From Racine's Journal Times:

Details began to emerge Sunday afternoon about an alleged altercation Friday between Racine Alderman Keith Fair and a female employee at his bar, prompting Racine County sheriff’s investigators to arrest him early Sunday morning at the establishment.

...[Sheriff Christopher] Schmaling said he didn’t know what the two were arguing about, but that remains under investigation. However, she was not forced into Fair’s vehicle, he said.

“She got into the vehicle first,” he said. “She didn’t say she wanted to get out of the car, but it (the argument) turned physical while the car was moving” – triggering the false imprisonment charge, Schmaling said.

...Fair couldn’t be reached for comment Sunday because he remains jailed.

Schmaling said Racine police initially responded to a local hospital this weekend after the woman sought medical attention there.

“She went to the hospital for a medical problem and it was the hospital staff that discovered the injuries (and contacted police),” he said, adding the sheriff’s office took over the investigation after Racine police learned Fair was the suspect.

The woman had redness around her neck, the inside of her lips were swollen, there was redness around her wrists and the inside of her mouth apparently was bleeding at one point, Schmaling said.

...Search warrants were served at his bar and home, according to the sheriff's office, and a vehicle owned by Fair has been impounded. The vehicle is where the alleged incident occurred, Schmaling said, so is being held as evidence.

If Fair is responsible for beating the woman, he needs to step down.

The guy isn't fit to serve.