Police arrested a Madison man for attacking bouncers in a fight at Wando’s Bar early Sunday morning.
Madison police received a call at 3:02 a.m. to Wando’s, 602 University Ave., after 22-year-old Logan Sloan physically assaulted three bouncers, two of whom were taken to the hospital.
After bouncers confronted Sloan for smoking a cigarette inside the bar, he hit one of the bouncers in the face and elbowed another in the head, according to Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain.
Wando’s Security Manager and bouncer Jbob Immel said he and two other bouncers thought removing Sloan and his friends from the bar was the best solution, but Sloan suddenly became violent.
Immel said Sloan hit him, and he needed three stitches on the inside of his lip.
“I 100 percent believed that their sole intention of being downtown was to cause trouble, and they found it,” Immel said.
Once outside, Immel said Sloan bit the chest of the same bouncer he punched, prompting the bar to contact police. While waiting for police assistance, the man punched a third bouncer.
Immel said a crowd of hundreds of people had gathered around Sloan and the five or six bouncers, making it difficult to control the situation.
“It’s a troublesome crowd,” Immel said. “They’re not good for business, they’re not there to have a good time, they came to start a fight.”
Immel said downtown bars would benefit from changes in city policies that would prohibit people from lingering outside bars.
