Looks about right.
Posted on 05/02/2023 4:23:30 PM PDT by devane617
A Tallahassee woman was arrested and charged with battery on an elected official Saturday evening at the South Walton Beaches Wine & Food Festival.
According to an arrest affidavit by the Walton County Sheriff’s Office, around 6 p.m. at the 500 block of Grand Boulevard, in Miramar Beach, deputies received a call that Selena Chambers, 41, threw a drink that struck the left shoulder of current U.S. Representative Matthew Gaetz and the right shoulder of Blaine Odom.
Gaetz told investigators that Chambers and another female had been walking past him and his family, cursing at them. According to records, Odom said he saw Chambers swearing loudly at them, carrying a drink in her right hand.
Stacy Froeschner told investigators she came to the wine festival with Chambers and cursed at Gaetz when they both passed by, both of them recognizing the representative.
I got hit with some Cabo Wabo, in the 20th row, after Sammy tossed his drink into the crowd. Can I sue?
Did she fling a Bud Light?
aka, libs turn feral.
That’s throwing “a” drink you semiliterate media clown.
I’m not defending the woman. She deserves to be charged. However what I don’t understand is why it’s a different/lesser crime to assault me that it is to assault an electric representative, they’re better than me so it’s a bigger crime?
That is essentially saying that elected officials or government officials are better than we are and they rule us. Very similar in logic to hate crimes. No. The seriousness of the crime is not determined by the person who commits it, nor is it determined by who the victim is. It’s determined by the crime.
I think you could argue that, since Gaetz is a representative of the people of his district, to attack Gaetz is by extension to attack all the people he represents. It would be similar to the argument that cop killing is more heinous because to kill a cop is to show contempt for the whole of society. In the end, it's still assault, and should be prosecuted and punished accordingly.
Physical violence, albeit much more often the threat of same, toward elected representatives is, right about now, a heavy, swinging weapon reducing the integrity of our form and particular apparatus of government. It’s probably a good thing that Gaetz did not blow this off but instead involved local law enforcement and started the wheels of justice turning. Kind of like a Rudolph Giuliani broken windows approach to civil society law and order, not waiting until the big offenses start rolling in.
“However what I don’t understand is why it’s a different/lesser crime to assault me that it is to assault an electric representative, they’re better than me so it’s a bigger crime?”
For the same reason legislators print and spend money they don’t have: because they have the power to do it. So they do it.
It does rub me the wrong way a little bit.
At the same time, legislators do get extra exposure to risks. As they meet with the public, they are vulnerable to things like verbal assaults, physical assaults, and getting shot. I don’t want my elected officials getting murdered. I got some good ones representing me.
Sure, as individuals we are at risk of crime too buying gasoline, going to an event, or - in Chicago - reading a book on the couch. But I can mitigate those risks easier than someone that I expect to travel all over to represent my interests.
Lemme guess... a communist threw it at a republican?
I hope that at least it was a Bud Light that was thrown!
It’s a felony in Fla. and she is a deranged liberal.
Lock her up and throw away the key.
Nah, you paid good money for that kind of action :)
The last domestic terrorist that did this only got 15 days for throwing a drink on Gaetz. This radicalized democRAT needs to do some serious time in Raiford.
How much you wanna bet she’ll only get a slap on the wrist. While that J6 mother, grandmother who just casually walked the steps of Congress gets to spend five months in jail. Maddening! Please, Jesus, bring swift justice to those evil demons wearing black robes!
Looks about right.
Ugly skank, probably mad at the world.
Too many liberal HATERS in this country these days. The same bass turds who call us HATERS. We know who the real HATERS are.
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