Port 507. At 127 West Second Street at a quieter hour. Where a combative crowd of 20 had spilled into the street and turned menacingly on police when they arrived. The situation eased aonly fter police re-enforcements arrived and arrests were made. Ten officers were involved.
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WINONA, Minn. — Police got a large and unruly rumble under control outside a downtown bar but only after calling in re-enforcements from the sheriff’s office and suburban Goodview. This was about 1:10 a.m. near the hub off Steamboat Days activities. Two officers responded to a call at the Port 507 bar and found about 20 people pushing and shoving and yelling in the street. Unable to de-escalate the melee, which was becoming more intense, the officers radioed for back-up. Four additional city police officers arrived, as did two sheriff’s deputies and two Goodview police officers. One man, Nashun Louis Robinson, age 21, of Winona, who witnesses said started the fight inside the bar, was outside and still combative when the first officers arrived. When he attempted to flee, police stopped him with pepper spray. An ambulance, which by then was at the scene, took Robinson to the hospital for a medical evaluation for effects from the mace. At jail he was booked for assault and obstruction of police. As Robinson was being loaded into the ambulance, police said, Andrea Ashanti Dorothy Chamblis, age 18, of Winona was goading the crowd to engage officers. She was charged with obstructing the legal process. Further arrests were likely, police said.