Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is assaulted by a protester during her first town hall meeting in her district of Minneapolis amid ongoing tension and protest of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations. The protester jumps out of his seat and charges the representative before reportedly throwing a substance on her. This came following her call on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign.
It’s going to keep escalating. Wonder when this will mirror the Caning of Charles Sumner.
Must be one of those peaceful nonviolent maga protesters.
I don’t like that she stopped just short of clocking that unfuckable turd. She should have let him have it. Instant reelection.
And what, she didn’t immediately unload a clip into his back? That’s the state sanctioned method for dealing with protestors now, right?
Federal sanctioned. State is still sending you to Wisconsin.
Looked like she was about to stomp his ass though.
The sad thing is, if she had clobbered him, much as he would have deserved it, the right-wing media bubble would have hounded her for it, calling her violent.
Even as it is, that guy will probably make a million dollars on gofundme.
I hate this fucking country.
I haven’t seen a clip of the incident without people criticizing her for even looking like she was about throw hands. “She should have reacted with more decorum.”
I’d like to see them react with decorum in the same situation. Anyone can preach about turning the other cheek, but when it’s their turn to get slapped in the face suddenly it isn’t so simple…
So true
Because she’s braver than ICE Nazis.
NazICE®
The fash-maker
NOICE.
^poor Jay^
Except in this case, the protester actually got violent, unlike the people murdered by ICE.
This came following her call on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign.
For people who didn’t watch the video, she says, “Kristi Noem must resign or face impeachment,” and the guy jumps up and rushes the stage.
It sounded sort of like he was saying that Rep. Ilhan Omar should resign or something. But what a weird trigger. You got to wonder what kind of a loser would jump up to defend Noem.
Or maybe he wasn’t defending Noem, and was just waiting for Rep. Ilhan Omar to say something that he could shout back at her. The most childish and mindless of retorts.
I can’t see how this guy could possibly be anything but a total loser. He turns violent presumably in response to propaganda.
It sounded sort of like he was saying that Rep. Ilhan Omar should resign or something. But what a weird trigger. You got to wonder what kind of a loser would jump up to defend Noem.
The kind that watches Newsmax. They’re carefully programming these crazies too radicalize them into violence against anybody who speaks against Trump or ICE or Noem or anybody in the nazi administration.
No wonder needed. Just another nazi.
Or maybe he wasn’t defending Noem, and was just waiting for Rep. Ilhan Omar to say something that he could shout back at her.
Possibly this, if be sprayed something on her then he came prepared to do just that and was waiting for the moment to jump.
And she bravely went straight towards him, shes a fighter
There’s a very good single frame of her, elbow cocked back and ready to swing at him.
Had it been a better angle would have been an even better FIGHT image, since she’s actually ready to throw down and Fuckface was running away.
Really hope whatever the fuck he sprayed her with was nothing dangerous
That woman telling her to go get checked immediately was right. It’s unlikely, but people have been killed like this before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Kim_Jong-nam
At approximately 9:00 a.m., two women approached Kim with separate components of the VX nerve agent on their hands, combining it into the lethal weapon when touching his face. He died about 15 to 20 minutes later while being transported to the hospital.
This part is wild.
She told her mother that she found a better job as an actor in prank videos for the Chinese market.[87] After Hương and Aisyah were arrested, they claimed they thought they were participating in a prank.[88] According to both suspects, they were told to play harmless tricks on people in the vicinity for a prank TV show, one target being Kim Jong-nam.[89] They said they were promised US$100, but after losing contact with their handlers, they never received the money.
Yeah… but on the other hand I can see this becoming a common way to prevent people from speaking: spray them with water so they have to leave the event to get checked out, while the perpetrator faces relatively light charges because it wasn’t actually dangerous.
Wouldn’t work. Bring a fake bomb strapped to your chest to a town hall and you don’t get a lighter sentence just because it wasn’t a real bomb. Pretend terrorism is treated the same as real terrorism.
Because that’s an explicit threat. Spraying water is—at least on the face of it—a step below throwing rotten fruit or creme pies or fake blood.
Ah, I see. I didn’t realize the water was squirted out of a plastic flower on the attacker’s lapel.
But joking aside, no court would ever interpret the act “on the face of it.” Rotten fruit, pie in the face, fake blood, you’re right, those have lots of historical precedent as symbolic acts of protest. “Mystery fluid flung at someone’s face” has historical precedent too, but not so symbolic.
I understand what you’re trying to say, but you’re not thinking like a judge. If you were a judge, would you really want an article in a law book to describe you as the one who thought it was a good idea to greenlight the throwing of mysterious fluids at politicians’ faces as an act of protest?
I’d shut up and take the L on this one. You’re failing to understand and it’s not getting better you.
Let’s not jump to conclusions. That doesn’t appear to be what happened here.
I’m not talking about this event in particular, I’m talking about the assumptions you have to make when responding to events like this.
It looked like a gel but that’s just a best guess.
I gave pepper spray that’s a gel.
Maybe that’s what it was. Maybe not.
If it was pepper spray, people in the room would have reacted even if it hadn’t hit them.
Well the gel kind of different. But other people are saying it was urine in a syringe. Maybe pig urine.
I think any liquid shot out of a syringe could look like a gel . So I’m probably wrong.
Time to get better security. It’s weird that in the time of political assassinations (Kirk, attempt at Trump) you have representatives standing meters away from random people without any cover. If a guy sitting in the public can get to her faster than her security she has no security. Maybe it wasn’t necessary 10 years ago but today it’s just common sense.
Standing in front of your constituents and being vulnerable sends a much stronger message than hiding behind security. Congressperson Omar knows exactly how that projects a message of acflccessibility and strength. Watch in the beginning seconds of the video, she’s the first to react and has to be held back from the assailant. She then tells her own security that she needs 10 more minutes to finish her speech before she goes to get checked out.
She’s not behind a pane of bullet proof glass, she is amongst her people. She knows exactly what she’s doing.
Yup, there’s a reason Noem and all the other monsters in the admin have had to scuttle and hide on military bases. They’re weak and pathetic, and know people fucking despite them.
If you are the voice of your people you must trust the people.
Personally I think it would be stupid to die for the sake of optics. She’s is targeted by Trump all the time so it was a matter of time before some MAGA nutcase tries something. She doesn’t need a bulletproof glass but I think her security should be closer to her than the public. If this guy had a knife she could be dead now. But I get your point. If she thinks having her security closer make her look weak and she’s willing to risk her life to better PR it’s her choice.
Still, her security letting some shady guy sit in a front row (doesn’t look like someone who will vote for her) doesn’t look good. It looks like they are not ready to handle real attack. Let’s hope they won’t have to.
As is your right to your opinion but I trust Ilhan Omar to know her business and act accordingly.
Yeah, we should pay for more security for POLITICIANS.
Who’s we?
Those of us paying for security. Not everyone lives outside of the US.
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Imagine standing up in the middle of a town hall ready to attack a state representative…because they called for Kristi Norm to resign… Surely there are better fights worth having.
“bUt ThE lEfT iS sO vIoLeNt!!1!1!”
Not for the cultists. Their divine leader will fix things for them . . . any second now . . …
Stochastic terrorism be like that
It wasn’t the call for resignation.
Dude’s been cookimg for awhile.
Is it me, or did that guy look drunk as a skunk?
She was ready to throw down, lol. He might have picked the wrong one.
Honestly that dude is lucky security got to him first, she was gonna whoop his stupid ass.
She had a pen in that hand, she was gonna shank his face which seems like a pretty appropriate response.
You can hear it in the video “I don’t know what it is but it smells terrible” sounds like rotgut breath to me.
That was him on a good day
Is Ilhan ok though? She was in her own district in Minneapolis, who the fuck was running security for her. ACAB jfc.
Unc? Could you clarify for the kids in the back?
He means uncle, as in someone come get your crazy ass racist uncle and take his ass home
Yeah, but this is a weird usage of that term. Normally it’s for old dudes who are maybe a bit corny (because old) but basically good dudes. Like, FD Signifier’s fans call him unc all the time.
Agreed. The use of unc downplays his actions and what this guy did was serious. I hope they figure out what the hell was in that syringe soon.
Unc: A creepy, misbehaving, often drunk, uncle vibe having ne’er do well.
or
A close relative that is feeling themselves a little too much at the family gathering.
It really depends on context. The asshole that sprayed Congresswoman Omar was stumbling and smiling, then sprayed her with some fart spray or other childish prank.
Since when does unc have a negative connotation?
Since GenA slang made it a thing.
Nah bruh. The way it’s used is just you old and out of touch with culture now you old. It has nothing to do with creepy drunk uncles jfc.
I’m getting too old for all of this lol
Since any word referring to the male gender gets interpreted in the creepiest, most damning and uncharitable way imaginable.
Great time to be alive as a man, we’re really smashing the patriarchy /s
Wow bro they let you bail out after spraying shit on Rep. Omar that quickly?
For real though thats quite a toxic worldview. I’m sorry you’re hurting in whatever way drove you to think like that.
The comment chain clearly evolved between the OP and my comment. Someone asked when “unc” got such a negative connotation after another commenter described it in quite despicable terms.
My comment was on the nature of using the word “unc” in such a derogatory way, when lots of people use it as a term of endearment or at least as a less-harsh way of calling someone old/out-of-touch.
What I said had nothing to do with the guy in the video. That dude’s an asshole and should rot in prison for assaulting a member of congress. I even commented elsewhere that he would have deserved it if she clobbered him.
Rage at somebody else.
I’m clearly not the one raging about anything rn.
I’ve been hearing The Professional Left and others using it in phrases like “Crazy Uncle Liberty”, which has the same connotation - even fairly normal families always seem to have the same unmarried/divorced uncle that loves to spew all the latest Faux News Bullshit Mountain talking points and generally making those around them miserable.
Crazy Uncle Liberty also is a phrase used for dipshits screeching on hate radio/“patriot radio”, or running a newsletter, or trying to recruit you into the John Birch Society, the person acting as the usual guy at the end of the bar on comment sections, and so on…
Bruh what the absolute fuck. Unc is just like anyone older than like 25 now. Idk wtf crazy uncle liberty is, and if that’s a thing alright cool. But unc has nothing to do with whatever all that is.
I believe that the unc slang that the kids are using these days is actually uncool abbreviated. Regardless of it’s resemblance to uncle.
So annoying that the video will not play over VPN.
Go figure, though: the fucking ads play just fine, though.
Disgusting
What an absolutely weak half assed attempt to do nothing. Looked pathetic.
Video is here: https://files.catbox.moe/1l4r23.mp4
More escalation
