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.
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.