Wrong. If the Congressman doesn't want to be stopped and asked questions by anonymous people with cameras running, then he shouldn't have become an elected public official. He works for us, period. He has no obligation to answer the question, but as a Congressman he has to expect such things.
Further, what he did was battery, and he should be prosecuted. Hopefully there are some pro bono attorneys out there who would like to challenge this Congressman on his behavior. When he finds out this kids name, it should be because it's on a lawsuit as a plaintiff.
This would be true IF he had not had a camera running. All of you, listen up: having a camera running when you ask the public official a question changes the equation.
You do not have a right to stop me or anyone else on the street, with camera running, recording my response, without first letting me know who you are.
period.
The congressman was way out of line grabbing the kid.
He was not out of line at all asking the kid who he was BECAUSE THE CAMERA WAS RUNNING.