Tim Profitt, now former campaign coordinator for Rand Paul, the man that stomped on a Rand Paul protester was ordered to court. Via MSNBC,
Paul’s campaign dropped Profitt as campaign coordinator in Bourbon County in central Kentucky and banned him from future events.
Lexington Division of Police spokeswoman Sherelle Roberts said Tuesday that officers will deliver a summons to Profitt to appear in court. A judge will determine whether to proceed with an assault case.
Profitt said the fight never would have occurred if police officers had intervened earlier.
“A friend of mine went up to three policeman before Rand got there, and told them about the girl who was standing there with that wig on and that she was getting ready to do something,” Profitt said. “The policemen looked at him and said that’s not our job.”
So, Tim says, “the fight never would have occurred if police officers had intervened earlier.”. Yeah, so I guess Profitt should have told the police officers to remove him from the event. Apparently it didn’t cross Profitt’s or any of the other mobsters that it’s just an overall not good idea to shove someone to the ground and stomp on them. Pretty high and mighty of tea baggers to think so highly of a lowly candidate for senate like Rand Paul; to think this woman in a blonde wig holding a sign would even bother to get “ready to do something” to Rand Paul.
Tim Profitt wasn’t just another campaign worker, he was one of Rand Paul’s most cherished workers. Think Progress shows a newspaper clip of Rand Paul endorsing Tim Profitt and his work.
The young woman Lauren Valle, who had her head stomped on, gives a little more detail on what happened, via HuffPo,
I have been at a bunch of events before, the previous debate, and the Rand Paul campaign knows me and they have expressed their distaste for my work before. What happened last night was that about five minutes before Rand Paul’s car arrived they identified me and my partner, Alex, who was with me. They surrounded me. There was five of them. They motioned to each other and got behind me. My partner Alex heard them say ‘We are here to do crowd control we might have to take someone out.’
When Rand Paul’s car arrived a couple of them stepped in front of me so I stepped off the curb to get around them to get back out front. At that point they started grabbing for me and I ran all the way around the car with them in pursuit. The footage is after I’ve run all the way around the car and I’m in front of the car and that is when they took me down. One or two people twisted my arms behind my back and took me down… It was about two-to-three seconds after that that another person stomped on my head. And I lay there for 20 seconds or so and my partner Alex came and got me up and that’s the point where there is the media clip of me speaking.
What a shame, lets hope justice is served.
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What is this “deliver a summons” foolishness? The mofo should be arrested. He committed a friggin’ crime. It’s called assault and battery.
Fortunately, the victim said on MSNBC’s Countdown that she plans to seek legal remedy.
And the guy gets worse – he is asking Valle to apologize to him. I dug up a great piece WKYT had where Profitt – now camera shy says:
“She’s a professional at what she does,” Profitt said, referring to the MoveOn.org activist, “and I think when all the facts come out, I think people will see that she was the one that initiated the whole thing.”
“I don’t think it’s that big of a deal,”
“I would like for her to apologize to me to be honest with you,”
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