Leftist Agitator Arrested For Assaulting MO SecState. Where's the Media?

“There’s a lot of yelling and screaming but as I was just walking along the sidewalk, it was fine until I turned left to actually head into the doorway,” Ashcroft told The Federalist. “That’s when they … collapsed around me and [started] shoving me and pushing me.”

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Despite being jostled, Ashcroft kept attempting to enter the facility. As he was reaching for the doorhandle, Ashcroft said one agitator — who video footage appears to show grabbed the secretary — told him he was going to “throw me to the ground.”


“I just didn’t think it was good to go to the ground in this mass of Hamas supporters, so I threw him over my hip and that’s when the police came in and arrested him,” Ashcroft said.

KOMU identified the detained man as 56-year-old Christopher Henry from St. Louis. A JCPD spokesman told The Federalist there is an active investigation into the incident and that both Henry and Harkins have since been released from custody.

Ed Morrissey

Gee, that sounds kinda ... insurrection-y to me. Shouldn't the media show some concern about the obstruction of government operations and the threat to public officials?

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