Monday, August 17, 2009

UPDATE: Barrett released from Froedtert Hospital

Good luck and quick healing to a fellow mayor:

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett was released Monday from Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa, where he was treated for injuries he suffered Saturday when he was beaten by a baton-wielding man. Barrett is resting at his home, according to Patrick Curley, the mayor's chief of staff. Earlier Monday, Barrett's brother, John, said the mayor was hit so hard in the face that the blow knocked out a bottom tooth and some top teeth. Barrett's hand was shattered and repaired in a three-hour surgery. A doctor placed stitches in the mayor's head, and he had plastic surgery to repair another cut that extended from his cheek to his nose.