One brother spoke, and then another.

        Then, it was mom's turn.

        All three swung and missed.

       Anthony Peters' siblings went first--both saying that Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett shouldn't have gotten involved that night in West Allis when Peters allegedly took after Hizzoner with a retractable police baton.      They say the Mayor stuck his nose in what was largely a family matter--a confrontation between their brother and the mother of the woman who had his one-year old daughter.   Without saying that Barrett had it coming, they all but said that he did.

       Then mom piled on, saying that none of this would've happened had Peters taken his meds (she says he's bipolar).     And, she said that, had her son gone after someone else who didn't happen to be the Mayor of Milwaukee, the media wouldn't have paid attention and her boy wouldn't have been arrested.

      Huh?

      The mom WAS right when she said there are two sides to every story, and we have yet to hear Peters' take.    Barrett had his chance at his Wednesday news conference, but chose not to for investigative/legal reasons.      Others have said that the Mayor did what anyone else would do if they heard a woman begging for someone to call 9-1-1--he went for his cellphone--and tried to calm the situation down.     Barrett said he originally thought it was the child who might've been in trouble, only to find out he'd wandered into something far different.

      I understand that blood is thicker than water, but does anyone in the Peters' family understand how far over the line it is for anyone to take a baton to someone's head with virtually no provocation?      To blame a bystander for doing what we would hope someone would do had the woman in question been related to us, or THEM?

      My son nailed it with the quote next to his picture in his senior high school yearbook--a piece of wisdom I'd never heard him quote before: "In life, the best thing you can do is the right thing.   The next best thing you can do is the wrong thing.    The worst thing you can do is nothing."

     The worst thing may be to do nothing, but sometimes, people should learn it's best to leave things unsaid.