Racine WI Alderman Keith Fair Arrested for Choking & Hitting Pregnant Woman at Bar He Owns

Keith Fair, a Racine, WI, alderman was jailed on allegations he choked and hit a pregnant employee at his bar, The Place on Sixth, Friday night.

Alderman Keith Fair hits pregnant woman

Alderman Fair is being held in lieu of $10,650 bond on suspicion of strangulation or suffocation, false imprisonment, battery and disorderly conduct, CBS Minnesota reports. The reality is that no decent man hits a woman. If the allegations are true, there's no place in elected office for a man who is abusive towards women.

“There was an argument between him and her at the bar,” Sheriff Christopher Schmaling told The Journal Times this afternoon. “He would routinely give her a ride home. They have a working relationship and a friendship. Things turned physical en route to her destination.”

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. Source

I would hope the jail staff isn't giving Mr. Fair any special treatment because he is an elected official. If he is guilty of the allegations, then he's a POS for hitting a woman, and a pregnant woman at that. Shameful and the people in his district should be screaming for his resignation.