Recent viral Facebook videos of teens fighting has some calling it a community crisis, but this time the viral video features adults.

A viewer sent us video of adults fighting outside of The Pour House Bar in Davenport.

“I think that it’s physically repulsive to be honest,” said Scott County YMCA communications director Frank Klipsch. “I think our bodies and our minds and our spirits are wired to believe that that is physically repulsive to see adults in the middle of a busy street fighting each other,” Klipsch said.

The video has received nearly 10,000 views.

“I believe if you pulled a lot of those people in those fights and asked them one on one a they probably would feel crappy and b they regret it,” Klipsch said.

That’s after a viral Facebook video of Davenport teens brawling in the middle of the street received  nearly 2,000 views. 


Klipsch said many kids do as they see.

“I think it’s indicative really of a problem that all of our communities are having where we literally are lacking physical common ground between each other,” said Klipsch. “Social media and ideology have become a fake common ground where we latch on to people who think and talk and look and act like us,” he said. “When we’re put into environments that are real with actual people in front of us we don’t know how to respond.”

“I didn’t have words to describe what I was seeing,” said YMCA solutions director Dustin Richardson. “Adults in general should be the leaders and setting a good example for our younger kids, but as we’ve seen that’s usually not the case,” said Richardson.

Richardson said his primary job is to establish positive relationships within families in the community to help curb the problem.

“My job at those school districts is to really be a support system to a small group of kids and work with them, coach with them, become their friends, following that also teaming up and getting to know the family,” said Richardson.

The Scott County Family YMCA offers scholarships for families to use their facilities
They also works closely with Big Brothers, Big Sisters to enhance positive relationships and role models in the community.