By Matthew Vadum ——Bio and Archives--January 13, 2017
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Baio was attending a function at his child's elementary school when he was confronted by Nancy Mack who is married to drummer Chad Smith. Mack reportedly began cursing at Baio, who has been an outspoken supporter of Trump. […] Baio asked Mack repeatedly to calm down as children were present but she instead reportedly attacked him by grabbing him under the arms, shaking him and pushing him.Trump-hating actor and comedian T.J. Miller was arrested Dec. 9 in Hollywood, California, after allegedly slapping Uber driver Wilson Deon Thomas III during an argument about President-Elect Trump. The Daily Mail reported that Thomas said:
Miller repeatedly complained about how much money he spent supporting Hillary Clinton's campaign. Wilson picked Miller up from the GQ Men of the Year party in Hollywood and said the comedian accused him of being a Trump supporter. As Wilson pulled up to the star's home, he said Miller suddenly struck him on the right side of his head and shoulder as he continued to drive. The driver claims he suffered violent whiplash after slamming on the breaks [sic]. He is now suing Miller for medical expenses and other damages.On Nov. 16, a 15-year-old Trump supporter wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat was battered by other students, WTOP radio reported. "They jumped him and beat him up pretty bad," according to a witness. This happened during an anti-Trump walkout protest march from a high school in Rockville, Maryland. Protesters carried "Love trumps hate" and "Stronger together" signs. Around Nov. 15, Cameron Massie was beaten up outside a Boston bar for supporting Trump, WHDH 7News reported. The assailants called the man a "racist" and allegedly told him he "took a wrong turn. 'You know you're in Massachusetts.'" Massie said he was talking about the election in the bar and the men "kept butting in." They punched him in the face and the back of the head when he exited the bar. Overnight Nov. 14, two vacant homes in Tampa, Florida, were spray-painted with anti-Trump messages, WTSP reported. The graffiti consisted of "# Trump," "Burn Everything," and "BLM," presumably a reference to the Black Lives Matter movement. In Malmö, Sweden, chef Anders Vendel was beaten up Nov. 14 because his Muslim assailants thought he physically resembled Donald Trump. He wrote in a Facebook post that "he was beaten up by three men, two of whom bound his arms behind his back, while the third beat him in the face. He estimated that he was punched twenty times in the face." Vendel suffered a broken nose and extensive bruising on his face, The Local, an English-language news website in Sweden reported. Texas state troopers arrested six members of a communist group called Red Guards Austin on Nov. 13 for assaulting Trump supporters and police during an anti-Trump riot, CBS Austin reported. "Red Guards Austin is a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist collective of community organizers and mass workers based in Austin, Texas," according to the group's Facebook page. Arrested were: Jarred Roark, 34, for felony aggravated assault, resisting arrest, and evading arrest; Taylor Tomas Chase, 21, for interference with public duty and resisting arrest; Joseph Wayne George, 36, for interference with public duty; Samuel Benjamin Lauber, 21, for interference with public duty and resisting arrest; Jason Peterson, 24, for interference with public duty and resisting arrest; and Jade Tabitha Shackelford, 19, for felony assault on public servant. Mitchell Mormon Jr. was shot to death on Nov. 12 in Atlanta, Georgia, after seemingly expressing support for Trump, WSP-TV reported. Shaunita Walker, who was on a first date with Mormon, was also shot in the incident. "She says Mormon and the man began arguing," according to the WSP report. "She says Mormon jokingly told the man he voted for Donald Trump and he would be gone next week. Walker says the argument continued, the shooter went around the corner, came back with a gun and opened fire." On Nov. 12, in Meriden, Connecticut, two men attacked a man who was standing on a traffic island waving an American flag and displaying a pro-Trump sign in public, WTNH reported. "Police say a silver car stopped at the island, two men got out and began punching and kicking the man, knocking him into the street … The victim told police that the two men gave him the finger, he responded 'same to you' and then the assault started." Also on Nov. 12, rocks, bricks, and bottles were hurled at cops during an anti-Trump protest in Indianapolis, Heavy reported. On Nov. 11, Corey Cataldo was attacked on the New York subway by two men who didn't like the fact that he was wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, WABC reported. "He asked me if I'm a Trump supporter. I said 'yeah' and thought he'd say 'me too.' People have been doing that," Cataldo said. "But no. This man was not a Trump supporter." "The next thing I know, I have hands around my neck and I'm being choked," he said. "I try to fight him off, and another gentleman comes over, pretends like he's going to help me and says 'get off of him.' He shoves me up against the wall, up against the window." Craig Heiser III, a student at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, claimed on Nov. 11 that his car was keyed and vandalized with the word "racist" because it displayed a Trump bumper sticker, Heavy reported. Portland, Oregon, emerged as the violent epicenter of the post-election protests. Activists caused a riot on Nov. 10 that lasted for days and led to more than $1 million in damage and one person being shot in the leg. Projectiles, including glass bottles and road flares, were tossed at police officers and a film crew was attacked. Black Lives Matter has been heavily involved in the demonstrations in Portland and across America. NBC affiliate KGW reported that more than half of the anti-Trump demonstrators in Portland weren't Oregon voters. Of 112 taken into custody by the Portland Police Bureau, at least 69 of them "either didn't turn in a ballot or weren't registered to vote in the state." A pregnant woman driving her sport utility vehicle was surrounded and harassed by protesters in Portland around the same time. Ukraine-born Trump supporter Valentin Muntyan was surrounded by anti-Trump protesters while driving his Jeep in Portland. KGW reported:
Muntyan said he was driving with his brother and nephew when at an intersection, someone noticed the flags on his car and asked whom he voted for. He was honest. "I told them I support U.S. elections results and I support Trump," said Muntyan. Things went downhill, fast. "They surrounded us and started ripping off the flag," said Muntyan who had a couple flags hanging on his car. "They smashed the windshield with a bat." Rioters also smashed a headlight and a window. His car was even spray painted.Alleged "anti-bullying activist" Shacara McLaurin, 23, was involved in a shouting match with Trump supporter James Durkan, 74, during an anti-Trump rally Nov. 10 near the Trump Tower in Manhattan, the New York Daily News reported. "McLaurin shoved the Trump fan to the ground — opening up a gash on the back of his head, cops said … Cops took McLaurin into custody without incident. She was charged [with] misdemeanor assault and harassment, police said." Two statues honoring Civil War icons on the Confederate side were defaced on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, on Nov. 10, WTVR reported. The phrase "Your vote was a hate crime" was spray-painted on monuments honoring Confederate President Jefferson Davis and famed CSA cartographer Matthew Fontaine Maury. On Nov. 9 in Chicago, David Wilcox was beaten and dragged down the street with his hand jammed in a car window. An angry mob accused him of supporting Trump, Breitbart reported. "You voted Trump! You voted Trump! Daaaaaaaamn!" an off-camera voice screams in a video of the incident, while others say "you gonna pay for that #!" and "beat his a**!" Another laughs as the man is beaten, saying, "Don't vote Trump." In another video of the same event, the rap song "F*** Donald Trump" plays as two black men punch and kick the white victim. The Daily Caller added that Wilcox did vote for Trump, but his attackers didn't know that when they assaulted him. They assumed "that he did because he was, as they put it, a 'white boy.'" When the incident was discussed on CNN, Symone Sanders, who was national press secretary for the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, mocked Wilcox. "Oh, my goodness, poor white people!" she said. An unidentified woman claimed she was assaulted Nov. 9 at a Philadelphia area diner for being a Trump supporter, WTFX reported. "I was wearing a 'Make America great again' hat," the woman told reporters. She claimed a waitress insulted and then assaulted her. "She's standing in a corridor and knocks into me. Then checks me with her shoulder," the customer said. Student Jade Armenio of Woodside High School in Woodside, California, was beaten up at school Nov. 9 for expressing support for Trump on her Instagram account on Election Day, saying "I hope he wins." KTVU reported that cellphone video "shows another female student approaching the girl and taking her glasses off before she starts hitting the girl in the head repeatedly saying "F*** you bit**." The attacker said Armenio's support for Trump was proof she hated Mexicans. Andre Hudson, a 17-year-old from Bayside High School in Palm Bay, Florida, punched a classmate in the face Nov. 9 for holding a Trump sign, WKMG in Orlando reported.
Hudson was taken to the dean's office. When a school resource officer arrived he was visibly agitated and swearing at school officials, according to an affidavit. The officer tried to de-escalate the situation, but Hudson stuck his middle finger in the officer's face, paced around the room and began punching filing cabinets and knocking things off the desk, police said. When I see that white boy again, I'm going to punch him in his face," Hudson said, according to the report. Hudson stormed off, and when he returned to the office, with the officer following him, he saw the student with whom he had fought earlier and confronted him again, authorities said. The teen cursed at his classmate while standing in a 'menacing fashion' and staring, police said. The other student sat silently during the encounter.On the same day, an elementary school student in Stafford, Texas, "was badly beaten by his classmates ... in the wake of Donald Trump winning the presidency," the Daily Caller reported, citing Fox 26. The boy was taken to the emergency room and hospitalized. "These boys decided to ask the classroom, 'Who voted for Donald Trump?'" the victim said in a reference to a mock election in the school. "And then I said, 'I did.' And then they come over here and jerked me out of my seat, and before I could get up they started kicking me and punching me." An 18-year-old female student at the University of Guelph, not far from Toronto, Canada, claimed she was assaulted Nov. 9 for wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, the Guelph Mercury Tribune reported. While wearing the hat,
[Emily Markowski] said she received a number of dirty looks from other students, and then while studying with friends in the University Centre cafeteria, it was smacked off her head. She said she hasn't worn it since. "I'm afraid now. I don't want to get physically assaulted again," she said. "It's kind of terrifying. I feel like you cannot walk around with that hat on at this campus and feel safe."Markowski said "she knows of other Trump supporters at the school who were also discriminated against following the election." No doubt there are other examples of post-election anti-Trump violence I missed. The incivility of the Obama era is far from behind us.
This article originally appeared at LifeZette.
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