Details are starting to emerge on the Rand Paul supporter who stepped on the face of a protester and pinned her face to the ground. It’s believed Tim Profitt worked for the Paul campaign, not just as a volunteer as once thought.
Since the incident last night, Paul's campaign dropped Profitt as campaign coordinator in Bourbon County in central Kentucky and banned him from future events.
He was allegedly captured on camera stepping on the head of a move.org protester right before last night’s Kentucky Senate debate between Tea Party favorite Rand Paul and Democrat Jack Conway. The video is plain cringe-worthy.
A judge is currently deciding whether or he should face criminal charges.
Activist Lauren Valle suffered a concussion and sprained shoulder and arm in the incident after group of Rand Paul supporters wrested her to the ground.
Profitt told the AP, "I'm sorry that it came to that, and I apologize if it appeared overly forceful, but I was concerned about Rand's safety."
Paul's campaign called the altercation "incredibly unfortunate.” Conway said he was shocked to see the video footage.
Ilyse Hogue, Drerctor of Public Advocacy and Communications for moveon.org joined Lawrence to discuss this attack.
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So Where was the outrage when SEIU members attacked a black man who was selling flags in L.A.???
How about a link so we can verify this.
This is how Fascists have always operated: first picket and tag the businesses they hate, then spew hate over whatever media are available, then begin to stomp and kill their opponents. Tea baggers are just the latest incarnation of American Fascism. We fought our last good war to stop Fascism in Europe, and now, for the third time since WWII, they're on the march here. It took a real fight to stop them there; it's time for a serious, confrontational political fight here to put them away.
Just like the dem's and the new black panther party at the polls in '08? (don't waste you'r time calling me racist, I know the playbook) Voting shouldn't be confrontational.
You do realize there was no "confrontation" by the NBPP at the polls in '08 right? Just a couple of guys standing around exercising their 2nd Amendment rights (just batons instead of guns).
Take a look at *any* of the video of this, little old white ladies walking right past them into the polling place. No complaints of intimidation by *anyone*, no reports of any kind of violence at all. If you are going to perpetuate a lie you should at least *try* to back it up with some facts.
And you are trying to compare this to a bunch of pussy Tea Party goons doing a take-down and stomping on a young women protesting at one of their rallies?
OK I need to edit my post it was in ST Luis last year. Here are 2 links there are many more just google "SEIU and black man" .
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/08/eye_witness_to_st_louis_scuffl.asp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTXBOgPCh9w
sorry dont know how to post links--but these are 2 of the web page addresses.
You would think that this would be one of those things that we can agree is unacceptable, but by the looks of these comments not so. Where is the leadership in the GOP?
Out pandering to the extremist base of their Party and trying real hard not to offend Rush Limbaugh.
It IS unacceptable! Anywhere, any time, in any context! This is exactly the type of atrocity perpetrated upon the women who advocated for suffrage (that's voting privileges for the undereducated) 90 years ago: they were thrown in jail and beaten up by men...just like that.
If we do not vote on 11/2 (or before in early voting districts), we have sullied the memories of those brave women. Their sacrifice and pain to move us forward will have been for nothing. Can we -- in good conscience -- allow the country to move backward?
Can we support EXCLUDING others from the rights and privileges of citizenship and the responsibilities of voting? Under the pretense of rolling back Big Government, can we support government control of women's uteruses? Can we support the return to the days of the Robber Barons and Big Trusts?
Think about what you are doing and what you are saying with your vote.
So limbaugh knows what going on.
This man was resting his foot on her.
not curb stomping her.
I dont know how this guy gets any influence
He tells his audience what they want to hear. In this case they want to hear that the people they support (the Tea Party) isn't made up of a significant percentage of thugs, racists, white supremacists, and neo-nazis. They don't want to hear how Rand Paul supporters are thugs that assault women for having opposite points of view.
All they want to hear is how "evil" liberals and the Democrats are and how noble, patriotic, Constitution lovin and "real" American they are.