I have no doubt it was premeditated. We have to be careful going forward, this is going to happen more and more. Agitators are going to come into our meetings trying to provoke a response while their comrades are filming whatever happens. Then a highly edited video goes viral.
This is going to be the way they rebut complaints about their own thuggery; provoke a response and then use it.
We should always have our own video-cams going at any public meeting, so that a complete record exists in our hands of whatever happened. And we should always be aware that they are trying to get us to do or say something they can use. The guy with the foot didn't hurt her, and didn't step on her head either for that matter. But you can see how they use what happened to their advantage.
“The guy with the foot didn’t hurt her, and didn’t step on her head either for that matter. But you can see how they use what happened to their advantage.”
Are you defending what he did do?
It was wrong.
I agree all the way, and would like to add an overlooked part of the incident. This woman was not standing in the front row, but at least 2 or 3 rows back. She pushed people out of the way to get close to Paul. So at that point, who knew what she had in her hands or what she was going to do with it. The security detail had only a very few seconds to move on her advancement, not a few minutes.
It is not like she was just standing nicely in the front row with her sign.
For you folks who did not mention her aggressiveness but foolishly fell for the “his foot on her head” crap and even “stomped on her head” inaccurate statements....If you were more careful in your observance and then your comments, you would not be furnishing ammo to the very people who will do anything to defeat Conservatives.