Summary

A 24-year-old man, Daniel Schmidt, was arrested after allegedly disrupting a voting line and assaulting an election judge in Orland Park, Illinois.

Schmidt reportedly attempted to skip the line, ignored repeated instructions to wait, and punched an election judge who tried to stop him, knocking off their glasses.

Other patrons restrained him until police arrived, at which point Schmidt resisted arrest. He faces multiple charges, including aggravated battery against a person over 60 and resisting arrest.

  • Beacon
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    118 months ago

    Nowhere in the article does it say anything to suggest who he was voting for. In a population of 300 million there are gonna be some number of crazies in every demographic

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    y’all are loopy. I’m 100% team Harris, i even phonebanked for her - did you? All i said is that there’s nothing in the article about whether he’s a trumper or not, and there are some number of insane non-trumpers out there. If you think literally all people who aren’t voting for trump are sane, then you’re the one who’s insane. It doesn’t matter whether this particular person turns out to be trumper or not, the point is we shouldn’t jump to conclusions or else we’ll eventually wind up with egg on our face

    • @Bertuccio@lemmy.world
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      238 months ago

      This is a good example of keeping your mind so open your brain falls out.

      No. The article doesn’t explicitly say what party he planned to vote for. That’s right.

      Almost all instances of election violence have been committed by the same party - even the attempted assassinations. I’m sure there could be examples of violence from the other party but I’m genuinely struggling to think of any.

      So if a reasonable person hears someone in an election line was violent they’re not going to think “well there are crazies on both sides, so yaneverknow.”

    • Optional
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      138 months ago

      Let’s wager then. 10:1 odds, one millyun dollars.