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‘You deserve that’: Commissioner’s wife arrested after dumping soda over a reporter’s head
Washington Post ^ | 12/16/2019 | Meagan Flynn

Posted on 12/16/2019 8:53:31 AM PST by simpson96

It was supposed to be a county budget meeting in Chattooga County, Ga., last Friday — but before it could even begin, the county commissioner’s wife stormed in and dumped a soda on a reporter’s head.

The shocking moment, captured partially on video, stunned the room into silence. Chattooga County Sole Commissioner Jason Winters’s jaw dropped. He uttered, “Oh, my God.” Another voice said: “There you go. I’m sick of it” — and Winters appeared to nod his head in agreement at his wife’s actions.

Meanwhile, the reporter sat at the table drenched, saying nothing.

“Oh, that’s classy!” a taxpayer attending the meeting yelled at Winters’s wife, Abbey Winters, (snip)

Abbey Winters has since been charged with simple battery and disorderly conduct in the bizarre soda attack on AllOnGeorgia reporter Casie Bryant, which witnesses told police appeared to be completely unprovoked. People and reporters attending the meeting said they could hear Abbey Winters say “You deserve that” just after dumping the drink on Bryant’s head, according to the police report and the Summerville News, which was at the meeting. The 39-year-old reporter did not say anything in response but calmly got up and left the room as the soda dripped down her face and onto her coat, witnesses said.

(snip) according to the police report, Abbey Winters told Summerville, Ga., police that she had “accidentally” poured the drink on Bryant’s head “after stumbling/tripping near her.”

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The incident comes amid mounting concerns about hostility toward journalists starting at the highest levels of government, with President Trump’s frequent cries of “fake news,” and trickling down to local news.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


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KEYWORDS: abbeywinters; casiebryant; chattoogacounty; compost; georgia; jasonwinters; meaganflynn
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1 posted on 12/16/2019 8:53:31 AM PST by simpson96
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To: simpson96

Yikes, Compost blames it on Trump.


2 posted on 12/16/2019 8:56:22 AM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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To: simpson96

As a broad statement, I would say that journalists across the country have been encouraging violence. I guess it never occurs to any of them that the public really hates journalists.


3 posted on 12/16/2019 8:56:47 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: simpson96

It’s fun when somebody threw a shoe at Bush and speaks truth to power.

But dump a soda on a reporter’s head and everybody loses their minds.

I’ll need details about what led up to this incident


4 posted on 12/16/2019 8:57:16 AM PST by Skywise
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To: simpson96

. . . and somehow this is Trump’s fault?


5 posted on 12/16/2019 8:57:47 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: simpson96

Don’t blame President Trump, we all hated journalists long before he come to office.


6 posted on 12/16/2019 8:58:00 AM PST by McGavin999 (“Look into it” does not mean dig up dirt, it means find the truth)
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To: Vigilanteman

Liberals don’t dump soda on reports, they hit them with socks full on concrete.


7 posted on 12/16/2019 8:59:19 AM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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To: Skywise

Yeah, we need details.

Presumption is Journalist totally deserved it.


8 posted on 12/16/2019 9:00:09 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: simpson96

The reporter is smoking. Wonder if the husband was banging her.


9 posted on 12/16/2019 9:00:34 AM PST by qaz123
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To: simpson96

I give her about a 7.5 on the matrix.


10 posted on 12/16/2019 9:01:32 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Fido969

I wonder what the reporter asked to “deserve that”.


11 posted on 12/16/2019 9:03:04 AM PST by Engedi (ui)
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To: DannyTN

I once dumped the contents of a trash can on a fellow student’s head. He totally deserved it, and I never had another problem with him.


12 posted on 12/16/2019 9:03:04 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The Electoral College is the firewall protecting us from massive blue state vote fraud.)
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To: DannyTN

Yeah seriously, the detail about the events leading to the soda assault are very conspicuously absent. Wonder what the question was that prompted the retaliation?


13 posted on 12/16/2019 9:04:47 AM PST by thoughtomator (... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
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To: simpson96

Ban ASSAULT SODAS!..........................


14 posted on 12/16/2019 9:05:13 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: Fido969
. . .or criminally charge them as happened to the Brietbart reporters who exposed Planned Parenthood's side business of selling parts from aborted babies.

The article suggests the Commissioner may have been taking a taxpayer funded junket overseas, so it is possible this reporter was being attached for doing actual journalism, something which today's journalists do all to rarely.

15 posted on 12/16/2019 9:05:20 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: simpson96

As I read that, it was “a reporter”, divining there were other reporters present. To have singled out one reporter, infers a, that reporter might have written something inflammatory, or, b, said something somehow, or, c, yes, she does have that physicality.


16 posted on 12/16/2019 9:07:15 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: simpson96

That deserves jail time.


17 posted on 12/16/2019 9:07:19 AM PST by Meatspace
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To: Vigilanteman

musta been a Diet Coke...


18 posted on 12/16/2019 9:07:32 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: Engedi

Looking into this, the Commissioner was kicked out of the Democrat part about 5 years ago, and beat a Republican for the position, so I guess he’s a popular independent.

As far as the reporter. the report made snide comments about a recent overseas trip the Commissioner took with his wife to Paris. I think the wife might have take offense at the insinuations!


19 posted on 12/16/2019 9:07:59 AM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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20 posted on 12/16/2019 9:08:38 AM PST by tomkat
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