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Originally Posted by Saya
They knew who she was and he blames police for not arresting her earlier when they kept bitching and moaning about her being there. She was then surrounded by five men, shoved down and curve stomped when she tried to get near the security line. Security didn't touch her, the tea baggers did.
I don't think taking a picture is harassment. Nor would it warrant a beating, or be relevant to the beating. You can clutch your pearls and claim that by wearing red she was mocking Sarah Palin and therefore got what was coming to her, but the fact remains that it is completely irrelevant and purely your own speculation.
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Why was she wearing a wig and waving a sign for a candidate she actually doesn't support? It was a disguise. It's not just a matter of wearing red. It's a matter of being a troll, which is fine in and of itself and didn't get her pals restrained. This is undignified political behavior that I thought MoveOn would be above. It's not unheard of, but I had respected them more than this media stunt would justify.
Also, I know I can't expect to be able to run up and grab political candidates as part of my protected right to assembly. I can assemble, but that's something entirely different. They didn't just pick her out of the group of protesters for looking small and decide to beat her up. It's clear from the unedited video, she bulled through and rushed the candidate and got restrained. This would happen to anyone who tried to do what she did. The only difference is that the one guy stepped on her in a totally inappropriate fashion. I'm not debating that, only the presentation of her martyrish innocence in successfully provoking the incident.
She wasn't bleeding or hospitalized. I've seen people actually get curbstomped and that really wasn't it. It usually involves losing a great deal of teeth. I don't even like Rand Paul or what he stands for, but that situation just smells of too much partisan bullshit.