Posted on 04/28/2007 6:48:21 PM PDT by blam
Ex-Senator Injured in Chicago Mugging
Sunday April 29, 2007 1:46 AM
CHICAGO (AP) - Former U.S. senator and presidential candidate Carol Moseley Braun suffered a broken wrist when a mugger tried to steal her purse, authorities said Saturday.
Braun, 59, was standing at her front door late Friday when an assailant came out of the bushes and tried to take her purse, said her spokesman, Kevin Lampe. When Braun resisted, the man pulled a knife and cut the strap of the purse.
During the struggle, Braun fell, fracturing her left wrist. She was later treated and a released from a hospital.
A student from the nearby University of Chicago came to her aid, Lampe said.
Zachary Trayes-Gibson said he had been walking with a friend when he heard screams.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
"I chased him to the next block," said Treyes-Gibson. "He produced what I thought was a gun, but it was a knife, so I backed off a bit. He jumped in an SUV and peeled out."
So the young man who came to her aid must have seen something of the attacker, eh? I wonder if he provided a description of the perp?
And...somehow comforting.
You should have seen the purse my (late) Grandmother used to carry.
It was big enough to sue as a shield, and was heavy enough that the perp would have trouble running away with it!
“Braun, 59, was standing at her front door late Friday when an assailant came out of the bushes...”
Bushes fault.
I'll give you 3 guesses...
I have a tagline that addresses her plight...
If it’s in the neighborhood bordering U of C, you at least know the color of the perp.
Sorry she was hurt. Probably a Dem in Daly’s machine and against the 2nd Amendment
An invisible one! ;-)
I think I'll add that tagline
...NOW...
“What are the odds that Jesse will get involved in this? Im not holding my breath.”
Jesse is already involved.... He’s the one who snatched the purse.
Sometimes bad things happen to bad people.
About 5 years ago, my wife was in several hours of reconstructive surgery on a shattered wrist, complete with pins and braces.
Aside from Mostly-Fraud’s corruption (hoarding a large stash of her elderly mother’s money while allowing Medicaid to pay her mother’s health bills, among other things), one of her aides, Susan Lindauer, has been charged with spying for Saddam Hussein. Moseley-Braun, when questioned about Lindauer, denied even remembering her, an obvious lie. She would remember her own aide. She could have at least said, “I know her but I don’t know anything about the spying.” But she was more interested in covering her own ass than in condemning a spy for Saddam.
Did you hear the story about a lady who carried a knife with her for protection? She got shot.
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