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Teen Campaigning for D/W/S’s opponent Says She Was Shoved by Rep. Wasserman Schultz
BY JESSICA LIPSCOMB | AUGUST 17, 2020 | 8:05PM
Update, August 18: The Pembroke Pines Police Department has released its report summarizing 16-year-old Martina Velasquez’s complaint. Police spokesperson Amanda Conwell stated in an email: “The incident was changed from ‘Information’ to ‘Simple Assault’ but remains inactive due to the juvenile subject not wishing to prosecute at this time.” The full report is embedded at the bottom of this story.
BACKSTORY A 16-year-old campaign volunteer for a candidate challenging U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz in tomorrow’s Democratic primary says the congresswoman shoved her while she was trying to talk with voters outside a Broward County polling place on Saturday.
Martina Velasquez, a high school student involved in climate activism, tells New Times she was stumping for Jen Perelman, Wasserman Schultz’s progressive opponent, outside the Southwest Regional Library in Pembroke Pines. On three occasions that afternoon, Velasquez says, she was attempting to speak with voters or hand out so-called palm cards when Wasserman Schultz moved her body between Velasquez and the voters, making physical contact with Velasquez.