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.
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.
Yeah… but on the other hand I can see this becoming a common tactic 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: you can always claim it was meant to be symbolic.
Edit for clarification: The point is, you can deliberately make it as non-threatening as possible, and it may be obvious to everyone that it’s not a threat—but if there’s a protocol to always check anyway, you’re shutting the speaker down by exploiting the protocol rather than the threat.
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.
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 accessibility 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.
Shiiiiiiiiiiit somebody come get unc
Unc? Could you clarify for the kids in the back?
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 got balled up like used tissue after assaulting Congresswoman Omar was stumbling and smiling, then sprayed her with some fart spray or other childish prank. Another commenter called the assailant drunk. I just went with it.
Since when does unc have a negative connotation?
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 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?
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…
Federal sanctioned. State is still sending you to Wisconsin.
Except in this case, the protester actually got violent, unlike the people murdered by ICE.
Because she’s braver than ICE Nazis.
NazICE®
The fash-maker
Must be one of those peaceful nonviolent maga protesters.
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 to radicalize them into violence against anybody who speaks against Trump or ICE or Noem or anybody in the nazi administration.
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.
